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androidandroid-wake-lock

What happens with the partial wake lock if the process that acquires is killed?

Does it get released automatically if the process didn't released before it was killed?

Solution

  • The wakelock is released if Process is killed. You can check this by below method

    Acquire a wakelock and then run 

      adb shell dumpsys power

    kill the process from ddms. Again run dumpsys power

    You can see that the mlocks.size is back to 0.