Ui crash while app was in background

[jmbreuer]

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Affected version

28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Picked up my phone after some hours of not using it and the below NewPipe crash report was shown in notifications.

I had not used NewPipe recently (today).

Expected behavior

There should not be crash notifications when the App isn't even being used.

Actual behavior

Crash notification, see below.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: none
• Timestamp: 2025-11-15T14:14:36.125+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: none
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux Android 16 - 36

Crash log

android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{b9ab67e u0 org.schabi.newpipe/.player.PlayerService c:org.schabi.newpipe}
	at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2391)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2359)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2741)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:248)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:338)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9067)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:593)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:932)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 16 / LineageOS 23.0-20251105-NIGHTLY-akita

Affected device model

Google Pixel 8a / akita

Additional information

No response