is there any utility which can make an (non-Play Store, non-rooted) Android device power off after a period of inactivity? my Quest likes to drain battery when not in use and it would be better if it just knew to power down when I don't touch it for a couple of hours
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in reply to @ticky's post:
apparently that is pretty much impossible without root (except when opening the power dialog crashes the device lol)
yeah, I saw that there was a way to do it with GUI automation via Tasker and AutoInput, but that requires Play Store to function sadly
might not work (the perm in question is restricted to system apps usually), but:
pm grant your.package.name android.permission.SHUTDOWN from adb,
and then use intent: android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN within your app.
A second option: You could turn on wifi debugging, pair it to a server or something in your house running cron, and/or have that server listen for device activity (e.g., a background app pinging it from the device) and dispatch the intent to your device remotely through adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.ACTION_SHUTDOWN...
though at that point, adb shell reboot -p likely works too
everything I’m reading about that permission seems to suggest that it can’t be done from userspace at all
it appears that Wi-Fi debugging is killed each reboot, which would break this being anywhere near seamless sadly
ah, damn. I'd still give the permission/intent one a shot. this is a heavily vendorized Android after all, perhaps Meta made changes to the usual AOSP permissions?
and yeah, wifi debug being non-persistent is a bummer, in this case.