Android: Why intent doesn't received by broadcastreceiver?

I have a few intents that activity sends to service. All of those are registered in manifest:

<service android:name=".location.LocationService" android:label="@string/location_service_started">
                    <intent-filter>
                        <action android:name="@string/location_service_set" />
                        <action android:name="@string/location_service_start" />
                        <action android:name="@string/location_service_stop" />             
                    </intent-filter>
</service>

But only location_service_start and location_service_stop intents are received. What could be the reason? There is my receiver code:

private BroadcastReceiver LocationServiceReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        if(intent.getAction().equals(getString(R.string.location_service_stop)))
        {
            showMessage("stop");    
        }
        if(intent.getAction().equals(getString(R.string.location_service_start)))
        {
            showMessage("start");
        }   
        if(intent.getAction().equals(getString(R.string.location_service_set)))
        {
            showAlertBox("set");    
            
        }
    }
}; 

So I never see "set" message. I've even tried put sendBroadcast for "start" and "set" messages in the same place, but everything still the same. "start" - OK, "set" - never received.

Functions that fires intents:

protected void start()
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(getString(R.string.location_service_start));
        getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(intent);
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protected void set(double lat, double lon, double rad)
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(getString(R.string.location_service_set));
        intent.putExtra("lat", lat);
        intent.putExtra("lon", lon);
        intent.putExtra("rad", rad);
        getApplicationContext().sendBroadcast(intent);
    }

Both are correct send, without errors, actions are correct.

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UPD:

Oh, my fault. I forgot to add filter.addAction... for new intent. I'm sorry. But answers was really useful! Thank you!

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All of those are registered in manifest:

Generally, you do not use string resources for action strings in an <intent-filter>, because you never want to internationalize them.

Generally, you do not use an <intent-filter> at all with a service unless you are exposing that service to third-party apps. In fact, right now, you are exposing your service to third-party apps, so anyone can send these commands to your service.

But only location_service_start and location_service_stop intents are received

No, none of them are received by the service. You are sending broadcasts in the Java code. Services do not receive broadcasts.

Functions that fires intents:

Do not use getApplicationContext() unless you know what you are doing. Whatever you are calling getApplicationContext() on is a Context, so you can just call sendBroadcast() on it.

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Copy & Paste from this question I just answered. Should be the same issue.

You have to put each <action /> tag inside a seperate <intent-filter /> tag in your manifest.

This should be a bug, since the doc states you can put more than one action inside a filter tag:

Zero or more action [..] tags should be included inside to describe the contents of the filter.

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