Does the Android OS release a wakelock if the app or service holding it is killed?

WakeLock Implementation Overview When we use pm.newWakeLock to create a new wakelock, the PowerManager simply creates a new WakeLock object and returns. The WakeLock object is not a binder object, so it cannot be used through multiple processes. However, in that WakeLock object, it contains a Binder object named mToken. WakeLock(int flags, String tag) { … Read more

Kill process tree programmatically in C#

This worked very nicely for me: /// <summary> /// Kill a process, and all of its children, grandchildren, etc. /// </summary> /// <param name=”pid”>Process ID.</param> private static void KillProcessAndChildren(int pid) { // Cannot close ‘system idle process’. if (pid == 0) { return; } ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher (“Select * From Win32_Process Where ParentProcessID=” … Read more