Difference between BOOT_COMPLETED and QUICKBOOT_POWERON on Android

Question

I have created BroadcastReceiver to schedule my Service execution every 30 seconds. This is what I have in AndroidManifest.xml :

<receiver android:name="MyScheduleReceiver" >
     <intent-filter>
          <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
          <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON" />
     </intent-filter>
</receiver>

This is working great now, but only after I added QUICKBOOT_POWERON action. Before that I had only BOOT_COMPLETED and when I reboot emulator or phone while debugging, my service would never start. So my question is what is the difference between these two and when to use each?

Hammered

check this https://mcmap.net/q/426890/-boot-receiver-not-working – Hampshire

That's exactly where I found working solution - but my phone is not HTC and it still wasn't working without QUICKBOOT_POWERON. That's the reason why I opened new question in order to get more general answer. – Hammered

com.htc.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON (and not android.intent.action...) #11693423 – Borges

Answer 1

Intent android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED is received after a "cold" boot.

Intent android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON is received after a "restart" or a "reboot".

Check here

Bimestrial

I restarted my phone (Lenovo P2) an received a Boot_completed intent... didn't check the other one though. – Demibastion

I think it's applicable only for Google emulator. Real devices always do "cold" boot – Gareth

Is this still useful nowadays to use android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON ? If not, from which API ? – Mortify

But that permission is not anywhere! Where actually did people heard of this permissio? Should it even be used if Android Studio doesn't find it?? I have internal/hidden APIs showing and it still doesn't exist, it seems. – Monumental

Answer 2

This is only required on HTC devices to support their "quickboot" feature

<action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON" />

Here is the full code from official code https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/StorageManager/+/refs/tags/android-7.1.2_r8/AndroidManifest.xml

<receiver android:name=".automatic.AutomaticStorageBroadcastReceiver"
                      android:enabled="@bool/enable_automatic_storage_management">
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
                    <!-- This is required on HTC devices to support their "quickboot" feature -->
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.QUICKBOOT_POWERON" />
                </intent-filter>
            </receiver>
enter code here

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