Programmatically switching off Android phone

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Sri Sri picture Sri Sri · Sep 19, 2010 · Viewed 58.1k times · Source

Can we switch off an Android phone programmatically?

I am using following snippet but it didn't work for me.

KeyguardManager keyguardManager = (KeyguardManager) getSystemService(Activity.KEYGUARD_SERVICE); 
KeyguardLock lock = keyguardManager.newKeyguardLock(KEYGUARD_SERVICE); 

lock.disableKeyguard(); // to disable

lock.reenableKeygaurd();// to enable

and I used the permission also.

Answer

Sheharyar picture Sheharyar · Sep 14, 2012

As CommonsWare already said that this is not possible in an Ordinary SDK Application. You need to sign your app with the System Firmware Key. But it's possible for your app with Root privileges. Try using the following code (if you have SU access):

Shutdown:

try {
    Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime()
                    .exec(new String[]{ "su", "-c", "reboot -p" });
    proc.waitFor();
} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}

Restart:

Same code, just use "reboot" instead of "reboot -p".

[On an other note: I read somewhere that these commands do not work on Stock HTC ROMs, but haven't confirmed myself]

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