GiladH wrote: > My app seldom needs to put the device (or screen) to sleep.
I suspect the Android model says that the user controls when the device goes to sleep, either by the power button or via the user-selected inactivity timer. > According to docs PowerManager.goToSleep() does just that, but > requires android.permission.DEVICE_POWER, which is never granted to > apps! That appears to only available to firmware-based apps. To quote Ms. Hackborn: "Whoops, I just looked and this permission is not available to applications. Sorry, it isn't possible for apps to do this." > (A) What on earth should i do to get this working? Modify the firmware. > (B) How can i programmatically wake up the device. Use AlarmManager to broadcast an Intent at the time you want to do some work and have the device wake up. In the BroadcastReceiver, either do the work you need to do (if it is short), or obtain a WakeLock (probably via a singleton), start a service, have the service do the work, then have the service release the WakeLock. > just to clarify - i'm not interested in a wake lock solution You don't need to hold a WakeLock, so long as you're willing to allow the device to go right back to sleep once your BroadcastReceiver's onReceive() returns. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Development Wiki: http://wiki.andmob.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
