Start Activity from Service Debugging

I am having some problems with my Titanium application when I am trying to start an activity from a Titanium.Android.Service.

The Bug: I am using benCoding's Alarm Manager Module so that the service is run at an interval even if the app is not running. The service then does it's stuff and sends a notification for the user. If the user touches the notification and only if there is no application in the history/back stack the notification will start the activity but will not load any content except the default title bar and a black screen. A screenshot it below of this. This eventually brings up the alert box saying that the app is not responding and would you like to either wait or stop the application.

Just to point out that if the application is running in the background and the notification is touched then everything works as it should and run the activity perfectly.

I think my problem is coming from the fact that Titanium has not initialised so it cannot run the code for the activity and render any of the UI. I know that titanium has to initialise for the app to work because that is the reason why all titanium apps have a splash screen as that is when titanium is initialising. I have Googled how to try fix this but nothing comes up that is relevant.

Here is my code for the notification, and what I have in the manifest.

Service.js

var intent = Ti.Android.createIntent({
    action : Ti.Android.ACTION_VIEW,
    url : 'Tips.js',
    flags :Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY | Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED
});
intent.addCategory(Titanium.Android.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
intent.putExtra('Tip',tip);
 
var pending = Titanium.Android.createPendingIntent({
    intent: intent,
    type : Ti.Android.PENDING_INTENT_FOR_ACTIVITY,
    flags : Ti.Android.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY,
});
 
Titanium.Android.NotificationManager.notify( 0,
    Ti.Android.createNotification({
        contentTitle: 'Tip to Quitting',
        contentText: tip,
        tickerText: 'Quick Tip to Quitting',
        contentIntent: pending
    })
);

<services>
    <service url="Service.js"/>
</services>
<activities>
    <activity url="Tips.js">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</activities>