I have an Android app that needs to sync to the internet, but as soon as the phone goes to sleep I can't access the internet. It only happens when the user uses the "battery mode", when it turns of...

I have an application in which I am sending network data over WiFI. Everything is fine until I turn the display off or the device goes to 'sleep'. I'm already locking the WiFi however, it seems to ...

I want to take pictures from the Android device's camera periodically over a matter of hours, to create a time lapse video effect. I set an Alarm Manager with an AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP flag set t...

I have made an app that starts a service, which starts a timer, which fires off a small function after an amount of time. This is working great on the emulator and on the Motorola Droid 1, but it d...

By using the Windows API it is possible to put the monitors into sleep mode: [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam); and ...

If I start a Java app, it initiates and does some work then goes to thread sleep for an hour, then wake up after an hour and does some more work ... But my PC is running Win7 and after 15 minutes ...

My app needs to block sleep/hibernate mode. I have the code in place, but after successfully catching the WM_POWERBROADCAST message, neither PBT_APMQUERYSUSPEND nor PBT_APMQUERYSTANDBY are being ca...

So apparently it is possible to keep the processor going processing stuff while the screen is locked, as indicated here: Running IPhone apps while in sleep mode However, after testing with the ex...

I have made an iphone fitness application. The issue i am unable to resolve here is that, while the application is running, the iphone goes in the sleep mode, and hence the accelerometer and sound...