I think I've found a decent solution with the service.. It needs a bit more testing but fingers crossed its the right answer :)

Did you stick a thread up?
Usually i get a reply within a day if i need help with something; either that or a mod will point me in the direction of other similar threads.

Otherwise try Androidforums - they've got quite an active development sub-forum.

Got very little decent detail from there regarding the WakefulBroadcastReceiver, even the official Android site is thin on the ground.

stackoverflow.com ;)

What you've just said to me is blah blah blah blah geek haxor blah blah :D

Bah!! What no proper geeks on here? :D

Ended up using a Service and its working quite nicely in testing.

I'm trying to build a class that will allow for the use of a LocationReceiver that will work reliably when the device is asleep..

On iOS this is a pretty simple affair as there is already a service in place to manage this but with Android it appears you have to use a WakeLock (which hammers the battery).

I've tried using a Service that implements LocationReceiver and I've also tried using a BroadcastReceiver that listens for the TIME_TICK broadcast which I then perform a requestSingleLocationUpdate in the onReceive() method.

The WakefulBroadcastReceiver has also come to my attention but the Google documentation isn't actually clear as to what this does!

Any suggestions ]? :)