It is there to bring the device out of deep sleep (that is when no wake locks are held), not to turn it on when it is off.
If you want to allow the device to turn on while off, a new kind of wakeup alarm will need to be defined. This is not currently feature that is supported by the platform. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, /dev/null <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought that the intention for the RTC_WAKEUP alarm was to wake up a > sleeping or powered off device. I was a bit surprised to find out that > it was not only the Alarm Clock application that registered RTC_WAKEUP > alarms, but also the Calendar does this to drive its synchronization. > I assume the GMail application uses the same technique. > > This means that I cannot use RTC_WAKEUP alarms on my hardware to > program an RTC to power on a device on an alarm. Because if I did it > would also power up the device when a synchronization activity is > scheduled, the device would stay powered up, the battery power would > eventually be exhausted, possibly long before the alarm set in the > Alarm Clock app is reached. > > Is this the intended behaviour, or am I assuming to much that the > intention for Android was to support alarms to power up a device and > sound an alarm as many classic feature phones have supported almost > since time immemorial? If this wasn't intended then there needs to be > a new RTC category of alarms that does power up the device, and only > alarms set in the Alarm Clock or a Calendar event with a reminder can > trigger it. > > TIA > > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
