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An earlier question on the subject explains that you can request a reboot with proper permissions, but that the OS may cancel it. I would like a Device Administration application on a rooted phone to perform a shutdown on e.g. maximum failed password attempts, rather than data wipe. Because this is a security issue, stronger guarantees about the shutdown/reboot than those provided by PowerManager would be nice.

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I answered it before here: Android 2.2: Reboot device programmatically

In short,

try {
    Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");
    Runtime.getRuntime().exec("reboot");
} catch (IOException e) {
}

It is equivalent to do adb reboot. Its effect is immediate.

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  • This looks good. Not sure how I missed the earlier question, I think I may have searched for shutdown instead of reboot. – Jacob Apr 21 '11 at 00:43