agarrharr/phonegap-powerManagement-plugin

Question: is it possible to keep wifi awake too?

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amunters commented

Hi again Adam,

My app fetches some data from a remote server at regular (30 mins) intervals. I attempted using your plugin to keep everything running even when the device goes into sleep mode. However, it appears that just acquiring a partial wakelock is not sufficient in this case, as it turns out that the wifi will still stop after 15 minutes or so.
Is there a way to keep not only the CPU running, but the wifi as well? Or would you be willing to add this as an extra feature to your plugin?

Cheers, Allard

agarrharr commented

I actually have no clue about how to do that. Someone else made this plugin for work because we needed the gps to keep tracking for an app we made. All I did was upgrade it to phonegap 3.0 so that it could be installed with the phonegap cli, but I'll keep this issue open as a feature request, and I'll accept pull requests if anyone wants to implement this.

amunters commented

Thanks Adam,
I found this WifiManager API at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.html, but unfortunately I don't have sufficient JAVA knowledge...
It would be a great enhancement to the plugin if someone could implement this functionality.

agarrharr commented

Thanks, I'll add it to the documentation as a potential contribution.