There is some easily available information on finding the status of a battery, or whether it's charging or not. (GetSystemPowerStatus API or System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.PowerStatus). I w...

With Android 9 battery optimization has been pushed further and apps are classified into standby buckets depending on how much the user has recently interacted with the app (see Android documentati...

i want to detect battery change at every percentage. I am able to detect battery level once with broadcast receiver. But its not updating value automatically when % change from 66 to 67. Here is m...

I'm looking for an automatize way of doing Windows Power Management functions: - Reboot - Shutdown - Hibernate - Sleep - Wakeup Is there a Python module to cover this functionality? Of course any ...

Is it possible to get the remaining battery time available from an Android phone? Thanks.

What is the difference between kIOPMAssertionTypeNoIdleSleep, kIOPMAssertionTypePreventSystemSleep and kIOPMAssertionTypePreventUserIdleSystemSleep? I am trying to create an IOPMAssertion that wil...

Some Android devices due to custom Android tweaks are done by manufacturers has some politics about Power Management that breaks some features like push notifications. Huawei - Only Pre-EMUI 5.0 ...

Some computers (e.g. Dell, Vaio) come with software that prevents a battery from charging. This functionality allows me to use my laptop with battery (protected from power outage) and keep my batte...

My MacBook spontaneously wakes up from sleep mode with high fan activity. I want to do a investigate this in RTC or power settings? Or by strace-ing of processes, etc (using some process/kernel ma...

I'm trying to write a small app that monitors how much power is left in a notebook battery and I'd like to know which Win32 function I could use to accomplish that.

For example if you want a cron job to run after each reboot, you add sth like this to your cron file: @reboot ./do_sth Is there something similar to that for waking up from a sleep state? ...

I happened to stumble upon these two instructions - mwait and monitor https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/mwait. The intel manual says these are used to wait for writes in a concurrent multi-processo...

I have an application that gets detailed system information, and I have been able to get the percent of charge remaining but not the percent of the battery itself. Explanation: As time goes on, th...

I have a daemon process started via launchd. This will be running even during DarkWake and has no time to finish before OS X goes back to sleep again. I can think of the following solutions, but ...

I want to keep my application running even if computer goes to sleep mode. I have use thread in my application and it performs some task after specific interval. Is it possible to execute program ...

I plan to develop a nice little application that will run on an arm-based embedded Linux platform; however, since that platform will be battery-powered, I'm searching for relevant information on ho...

In the most recent version of OSX Lion, how do you wake up the machine from display sleep? This is in response to network activity. In 10.7.3 this was possible with the following call: IOPMAssert...

I'm looking to control a mains powered light from a simple relay switch connected via USB to the computer. The relay switch isn't even a USB device, it's just a simple switch that requires the USB...

I'd like to use a GCE server and VNC to run some desktop programs I've written. However, I'd like to not have the GCE server running all the time (to save money) and I'd like to have the setup of m...

I am using the method setKeepScreenOn(true) and haven't been able to figure out how to call this in relation to the current Activity (which has a content view set). I've been able to get it to work...

I want to launch My Application when we taps on NFC tag even Phone is Locked same as did in Google Wallet Application. I tried in following ways : 1) Tap NFC tag to launch my application after pr...

I want to run some save routines when the computer suspends. Therefore I use the OnPowerChange-Event to detect when it suspends and resumes. Unfortunately me save routine needs 3-5 seconds to execu...

I am working on a mobile game, which appearantly crashes when the Low Battery alert is displayed. It works fine on low memory, incoming calls and other messages. Its a pain to test and debug this,...

I'm converting a Carbon app to a Cocoa app and I can't find the Cocoa equivalent for: UpdateSystemActivity(UsrActivity); Any Mac people out there care to point me in the right direction? Thanks....

I'm interested in getting all power plans that you have in your computer using C#. I was thinking you might be able to use the API PowerEnumerate function in some way: DWORD WINAPI PowerEnumerate( ...