Programmatically switching off Android phone

Question

Can we switch off an Android phone programmatically?

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

KeyguardManager keyguardManager = (Keyg         


        

Answer 1

You could possibly use the PowerManager to make it reboot (this does not guarantee that it'll reboot - OS may cancel it):

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.html#reboot(java.lang.String)

It requires the REBOOT permission:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html#REBOOT

Can you also check your logcat when trying to enable/disable keyguard, and post what's there?