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GCM registration failed

I am working with google push notifications. i am able to retrieve my reg id but its failing to register my mobile in server.Can someone help me where am i going wrong
Main Activity:
GCMRegistrar.checkDevice(this);
// Make sure the manifest was properly set - comment out this line
// while developing the app, then uncomment it when it's ready.
GCMRegistrar.checkManifest(this);
//setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// mDisplay = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.display);
registerReceiver(mHandleMessageReceiver,
new IntentFilter(DISPLAY_MESSAGE_ACTION));
final String regId = GCMRegistrar.getRegistrationId(this);
mDisplay.append("Reg id" + regId + " ");
if (regId.equals("")) {
// Automatically registers application on startup.
GCMRegistrar.register(this, SENDER_ID);
//mDisplay.append("Reg id" + regId + " ");
} else {
// Device is already registered on GCM, check server.
if (GCMRegistrar.isRegisteredOnServer(this)) {
// Skips registration.
//mDisplay.append(getString(R.string.already_registered) +
"\n");
// mDisplay.append("Reg id" + regId + " ");
} else {
// Try to register again, but not in the UI thread.
// It's also necessary to cancel the thread onDestroy(),
// hence the use of AsyncTask instead of a raw thread.
// mDisplay.append("Reg id" + regId + " ");
final Context context = this;
mRegisterTask = new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void>() {
#Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
boolean registered =
ServerUtilities.register(context, regId,
userNum);
// At this point all attempts to register with the app
// server failed, so we need to unregister the device
// from GCM - the app will try to register again when
// it is restarted. Note that GCM will send an
// unregistered callback upon completion, but
// GCMIntentService.onUnregistered() will ignore it.
if (!registered) {
GCMRegistrar.unregister(context);
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
mRegisterTask = null;
}
};
mRegisterTask.execute(null, null, null);
}
}
Server Utilities:
for (int i = 1; i <= MAX_ATTEMPTS; i++) {
Log.d(TAG, "Attempt #" + i + " to register");
try {
displayMessage(context, context.getString(
R.string.server_registering, i, MAX_ATTEMPTS));
post(serverUrl, params);
GCMRegistrar.setRegisteredOnServer(context, true);
String message = context.getString(R.string.server_registered);
CommonUtilities.displayMessage(context, message);
return true;
} catch (IOException e) {
// Here we are simplifying and retrying on any error; in a real
// application, it should retry only on unrecoverable errors
// (like HTTP error code 503).
Log.e(TAG, "Failed to register on attempt " + i, e);
if (i == MAX_ATTEMPTS) {
break;
}
try {
Log.d(TAG, "Sleeping for " + backoff + " ms before retry");
Thread.sleep(backoff);
} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
// Activity finished before we complete - exit.
Log.d(TAG, "Thread interrupted: abort remaining retries!");
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
return false;
}
// increase backoff exponentially
backoff *= 2;
}
}
server and sender id:
static final String SERVER_URL = "http://http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/Sample";
/**
* Google API project id registered to use GCM.
*/
static final String SENDER_ID = "921198929963";
Error log:
01-21 15:32:59.359 19009-19090/? E/GCMRegistrar: internal error: retry
receiver class not set yet
01-21 15:32:59.365 19009-19090/? E/Regid:
APA91bEpJzZoMsj10CzBHXIAxmkyJMyZXTyCUsihO_BhmB-noqc-Llu5uSiaXZBF-
ICCjHtwgNTysoOXyA9715U1kG4L2BV-Zl3vz5DOwk4mTYX9HdF5aBSaOzmLo9zE_ZDz-9ppnThi
01-21 15:32:59.988 19009-19090/? E/SurakshaGCM: Failed to register on
attempt 1
01-21 15:33:02.215 19009-19090/? E/SurakshaGCM: Failed to register on
attempt 2
01-21 15:33:06.647 19009-19090/? E/SurakshaGCM: Failed to register on
attempt 3
01-21 15:33:14.913 19009-19090/? E/SurakshaGCM: Failed to register on
attempt 4

Kindly use the latest gcm jar file. If you get the error "internal error: retry receiver class not set yet", then you have an older version of the client gcm.jar. You can download either the source or the updated gcm.jar from the GCM repository.
You may use this tutorial as your guide, the project contains client libraries and samples to explore the GCM APIs: https://github.com/google/gcm

GCM device registration

Implicit intents with startService are not safe: Intent { act=com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION (has extras) } android.content.ContextWrapper.startService:494 in.demo.gcm.MainActivity$1.onClick:29 android.view.View.performClick:4438
I am getting above error,i add gcm.jar in my project but still my error not clear.
Please give me any other suggestion.
Thanks in advance.

I don't know about the error you are getting, but gcm.jar is obsolete. The recommended way to register to GCM is via the GoogleCloudMessaging.register method of the Google Play Services library.
The registration code (taken from the official GCM demo app) looks like this :
/**
* Registers the application with GCM servers asynchronously.
* <p>
* Stores the registration ID and the app versionCode in the application's
* shared preferences.
*/
private void registerInBackground() {
new AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
String msg = "";
try {
if (gcm == null) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
}
regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
msg = "Device registered, registration ID=" + regid;
// You should send the registration ID to your server over HTTP, so it
// can use GCM/HTTP or CCS to send messages to your app.
sendRegistrationIdToBackend();
// For this demo: we don't need to send it because the device will send
// upstream messages to a server that echo back the message using the
// 'from' address in the message.
// Persist the regID - no need to register again.
storeRegistrationId(context, regid);
} catch (IOException ex) {
msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
// If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
// Require the user to click a button again, or perform
// exponential back-off.
}
return msg;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String msg) {
mDisplay.append(msg + "\n");
}
}.execute(null, null, null);
}

Push Notification, token expire?

I'm working on a mobile application and i'm on Push Notification.
I can retrieve a token from a phone (apple or android) for send a push but i have a question :
This token is always the same ? If a get one time the token, i need to check if the token change ?

From apple documentation,
The form of this phase of token trust ensures that only APNs generates
the token which it will later honor, and it can assure itself that a
token handed to it by a device is the same token that it previously
provisioned for that particular device—and only for that device.
If the user restores backup data to a new device or reinstalls the
operating system, the device token changes.
So, its always good to update the server with the token received from APN. As part of optimisation, if you are receiving the same token, there is no need to update the server.

For Android:
It depends on your implementation, but what is recommended from google is that the registration id, can be changed after the app is updated...
Everytime the registration id is changed, the client should update the server with the new value.
check: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/client.html#sample-register
if (checkPlayServices()) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(this);
regid = getRegistrationId(context);
if (regid.isEmpty()) {
registerInBackground();
}
} else {
Log.i(TAG, "No valid Google Play Services APK found.");
}
private void registerInBackground() {
new AsyncTask() {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
String msg = "";
try {
if (gcm == null) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
}
regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
msg = "Device registered, registration ID=" + regid;
// You should send the registration ID to your server over HTTP,
// so it can use GCM/HTTP or CCS to send messages to your app.
// The request to your server should be authenticated if your app
// is using accounts.
sendRegistrationIdToBackend();
// For this demo: we don't need to send it because the device
// will send upstream messages to a server that echo back the
// message using the 'from' address in the message.
// Persist the regID - no need to register again.
storeRegistrationId(context, regid);
} catch (IOException ex) {
msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
// If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
// Require the user to click a button again, or perform
// exponential back-off.
}
return msg;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String msg) {
mDisplay.append(msg + "\n");
}
}.execute(null, null, null);
...
}

Android GCM: sendRegistrationIdToBackend syntax error on token void

I'm following the android GCM tutorial provided by google, and I get the following errors:
on the line:
private void sendRegistrationIdToBackend() {
// Your implementation here.
}
Syntax error on Token "Void", # expected.
Syntax error insert "enum Identifier" to complete EnumHeader.
Using, compiler 1.6
Thank you so much.
The entire function:
private void registerInBackground() {
new AsyncTask() {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
String msg = "";
try {
if (gcm == null) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
}
regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
msg = "Device registered, registration ID=" + regid;
// You should send the registration ID to your server over HTTP,
// so it can use GCM/HTTP or CCS to send messages to your app.
// The request to your server should be authenticated if your app
// is using accounts.
sendRegistrationIdToBackend();
// For this demo: we don't need to send it because the device
// will send upstream messages to a server that echo back the
// message using the 'from' address in the message.
// Persist the regID - no need to register again.
storeRegistrationId(context, regid);
} catch (IOException ex) {
msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
// If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
// Require the user to click a button again, or perform
// exponential back-off.
}
return msg;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String msg) {
mDisplay.append(msg + "\n");
}
}.execute(null, null, null);
/**
* Sends the registration ID to your server over HTTP, so it can use GCM/HTTP
* or CCS to send messages to your app. Not needed for this demo since the
* device sends upstream messages to a server that echoes back the message
* using the 'from' address in the message.
*/
private void sendRegistrationIdToBackend() {
// Your implementation here.
}
}

It seems you forgot to close the registerInBackground() method.
Add } after }.execute(null, null, null);
Another way to look at it is that you put private void sendRegistrationIdToBackend() {} inside the registerInBackground() method, which is wrong.

GoogleCloudMessaging APIs Implementing GCM Client

hello i am following the official documentation of android to send the push notification as the old method is deprecated but im facing problem in implementing GCM Client
http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/client.html
the tutorial is written here, scroll down and see
private void registerInBackground()
when i write this function on my app it gives me this error
Syntax error on token "void", # expected
i have googled it and i know the error now that this method is trying to create a method inside a method but still im confused because it is the official documentation i must have done something wrong, can anybody point out plz?
here is the method on this tutorial:
private void registerInBackground() {
new AsyncTask() {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
String msg = "";
try {
if (gcm == null) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
}
regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
msg = "Device registered, registration ID=" + regid;
// You should send the registration ID to your server over HTTP,
// so it can use GCM/HTTP or CCS to send messages to your app.
// The request to your server should be authenticated if your app
// is using accounts.
sendRegistrationIdToBackend();
// For this demo: we don't need to send it because the device
// will send upstream messages to a server that echo back the
// message using the 'from' address in the message.
// Persist the regID - no need to register again.
storeRegistrationId(context, regid);
} catch (IOException ex) {
msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
// If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
// Require the user to click a button again, or perform
// exponential back-off.
}
return msg;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String msg) {
mDisplay.append(msg + "\n");
}
}.execute(null, null, null);
...
/**
* Sends the registration ID to your server over HTTP, so it can use GCM/HTTP
* or CCS to send messages to your app. Not needed for this demo since the
* device sends upstream messages to a server that echoes back the message
* using the 'from' address in the message.
*/
private void sendRegistrationIdToBackend() {
// Your implementation here.
}
}
now see that sendRegistrationIdToBackend is inside a method itself, any help plz?

here is the solution i found for it and disappointed that 33 people viewed it but nobody bother to ans anyways here is the code
private void registerInBackground() {
new AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
String msg = "";
try {
if (gcm == null) {
gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
}
regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
msg = "Device registered, registration ID=" + regid;
// You should send the registration ID to your server over HTTP, so it
// can use GCM/HTTP or CCS to send messages to your app.
sendRegistrationIdToBackend();
// For this demo: we don't need to send it because the device will send
// upstream messages to a server that echo back the message using the
// 'from' address in the message.
// Persist the regID - no need to register again.
storeRegistrationId(context, regid);
} catch (IOException ex) {
msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
// If there is an error, don't just keep trying to register.
// Require the user to click a button again, or perform
// exponential back-off.
}
return msg;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String msg) {
mDisplay.append(msg + "\n");
}
}.execute(null, null, null);
}