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

Question

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

Yes it do release but not immediately. – AAnkit Sep 06 '12 at 09:27 — AAnkit, Sep 06 '12 at 09:27
you need to release it in `onDestroy()` – Aditya Nikhade Sep 06 '12 at 09:19 — Aditya Nikhade, Sep 06 '12 at 09:19

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '12 at 09:31

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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.

answered Sep 06 '12 at 09:31

nandeesh

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