diff --git a/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/distributedsched.service b/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/distributedsched.service
index 578c42b831dd56e5c3f91aa8835a3d62aed6b48f..e12863c3b7e6d046d96d0ad8fa482c0844efcbeb 100644
--- a/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/distributedsched.service
+++ b/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/distributedsched.service
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
 [Unit]
-Description=OpenHarmony Distributed Schedule service
+Description=OpenHarmony Distributed Schedule service (SA: 1401)
+Requires=samgr.service
+After=samgr.service
+#Wants=param.service
+#After=param.service
+# Logging to hilogd, but seems to work without it
+Wants=hilogd.service
+After=hilogd.service
+# Requires SA: 4700
+Wants=dsoftbus.service
 
 [Service]
-Type=oneshot
-ExecStart=/bin/echo "OpenHarmony Distributed Schedule Service"
-RemainAfterExit=yes
+Type=notify
+User=system
+Group=system
+SupplementaryGroups=shell
+LimitNICE=40
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/sa_main /system/profile/distributedsched.xml
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/openharmony-preinit b/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/openharmony-preinit
index 0276838c041237a4bd8bb7a863b11fa218ffa03c..c6ec2f1c7fe77f9385e004faf4502b75ddcab971 100644
--- a/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/openharmony-preinit
+++ b/recipes-openharmony/openharmony/files/openharmony-preinit
@@ -136,17 +136,6 @@ fi
 #sa_main /system/profile/dps_service.xml & # SA: 1401 180 3502
 #sleep "$STARTUP_CMD_SLEEP"
 
-# trigger: post-fs-data
-# "name" : "distributedsched",
-# "path" : ["/system/bin/sa_main", "/system/profile/distributedsched.xml"],
-# "uid" : "system",
-# "gid" : ["system", "shell"]
-if systemctl -q is-enabled distributedsched.service; then
-	echo >/dev/console "Starting OpenHarmony distributedsched service"
-	su system -c '/system/bin/sa_main /system/profile/distributedsched.xml &' # SA: 1401
-	sleep "$STARTUP_CMD_SLEEP"
-fi
-
 # trigger: boot
 # "name" : "distributeddata",
 # "path" : ["/system/bin/sa_main","/system/profile/distributeddata.xml"],