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# [How to Stop Your Android App from Draining the Battery with Wake Locks](https://freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-stop-your-android-app-from-draining-the-battery-with-wake-locks?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A wake lock is one of the simplest APIs in Android and one of the easiest to misuse. Acquiring one takes a single line of code. Forgetting to release it can keep a phone's CPU awake for hours, drain t

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