Apps Best way to get current locations from background service

[eZACKe]

I have a Service that I am running in the background every minute. It's an IntentService and I start it like this:

Intent i = new Intent(context, GPSTracker.class);
		PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, i, 0);
		
		AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
		
		if(isOn) {
			alarmManager.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, SystemClock.elapsedRealtime(), POLL_INTERVAL, pi);
		} else {
			alarmManager.cancel(pi);
			pi.cancel();
		}

That works, my Service is being run every minute (give or take a couple seconds for some reason) whether the app is up, closed, the phone is sleeping, whatever.

My problem is, I'm not exactly sure how I should be getting the current location from this Service. I'm attempting to use LocationListener and a mix of getLastKnownLocation and hoping onLocationChanged will be called.

I think my problem is, onLocationChanged is barely getting called. Everytime the service runs and I do getLastKnownLocation I send a message to my database to check, I send a different message everytime onLocationChanged is called. I went to the store and back and getLastKnownLocation was called a few times, but onLocationChanged was only called once and it was incorrect. getLastKnownLocation always seems to be incorrect to.

This is what I'm doing:

protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
		Log.i(TAG, "In onHandleIntent!");
		Location currentLocation = getLocation(this);
		if(currentLocation == null) {
			saveLocation(-8.0, -8.0, "nothing", "nothing", "nothing");
		} else {
			Geocoder geocoder;
			List<Address> addresses;
			geocoder = new Geocoder(this, Locale.getDefault());
			try {
				addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(latitude, longitude, 1);
				String city = addresses.get(0).getLocality();
				String country = addresses.get(0).getCountryCode();
				String state = addresses.get(0).getAdminArea();
				saveLocation(currentLocation.getLatitude(), currentLocation.getLongitude(), city, state, country);
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}

public Location getLocation(Context context) {
        try {
            locationManager = (LocationManager) context
                    .getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);

            // getting GPS status
            isGPSEnabled = locationManager
                    .isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

            // getting network status
            isNetworkEnabled = locationManager
                    .isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);

            if (!isGPSEnabled && !isNetworkEnabled) {
                // no network provider is enabled
            } else {
                this.canGetLocation = true;
                if (isNetworkEnabled) {
                    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER,0,0, this);
                    Log.d("Network", "Network");
                    if (locationManager != null) {
                        location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
                        if (location != null) {
                            latitude = location.getLatitude();
                            longitude = location.getLongitude();
                        }
                    }
                }
                // if GPS Enabled get lat/long using GPS Services
                if (isGPSEnabled) {
                    if (location == null) {
                        locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,0,0, this);
                        Log.d("GPS Enabled", "GPS Enabled");
                        if (locationManager != null) {
                            location = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
                            if (location != null) {
                                latitude = location.getLatitude();
                                longitude = location.getLongitude();
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return location;
    }

 @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
    	if(location == null) {
			saveLocation(-8.0, -8.0, "nothing_listener", "nothing_listener", "nothing");
		} else {
			Geocoder geocoder;
			List<Address> addresses;
			geocoder = new Geocoder(this, Locale.getDefault());
			try {
				addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(latitude, longitude, 1);
				String city = addresses.get(0).getLocality();
				String country = addresses.get(0).getCountryCode();
				String state = addresses.get(0).getAdminArea();
				saveLocation(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude(), city +"_listener", state +"_listener", country +"_listener");
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
    }

So what am I doing wrong? I'm sure plenty...

 

[eZACKe]

Edit: If someone could tell me how to properly insert code I'll fix my first post.