Listener in Android service and stopSelf() occuring too early problem

Consider such Android code in a Service implementing a Listener (events from orientation sensor):

public void onStateChanged()
{
    //do some work
    stopSelf();
}

I want the service to die AFTER the method onStateChanged() is triggered and AFTER its code is executed. However, it dies too soon - stopSelf() is being called BEFORE the "//do some work" occurs. If I place a break during the de开发者_StackOverflow社区bug somewhere inside "//do some work" everything works fine - code is executed, then service dies. If I remove stopSelf() - code is executed. If i run it the way above - NOTHING from "//do some work" gets done. Why is that? How's that possible?

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It's possible they occur in another thread. Some methods return straight away while their work is done concurrently. Depends on the "work". There might be a relevant onSomethingCompletedListener that you can use. Show us the code you've tried! And try inserting Log.d("blah"); statements to get more information.