# Can Android mode do timelapse image capture and FTP upload

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**Category:** Processing for Android\
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-android-mode-do-timelapse-image-capture-and-ftp-upload/28213 "2021-03-03T08:26:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/can-android-mode-do-timelapse-image-capture-and-ftp-upload/28213/6 "2021-06-15T10:13:10Z")

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HI,  
And thanks for the replies. Sorry for lack of response.

Well i finally have a time lapse imaging system up and running on a phone. As per initial description it captures an image, saves image to internal shared storage, uploads the image to an FTP server, then sits and waits till next scheduled capture time.

However a problem that exists is that as soon as the phone goes into standby, the time lapse operation stops so i thought a wakelock might help here and i found this post ([How to use Partial WakeLock](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-use-partial-wakelock/24834)) that you guys were also involved in. Would the code examples given in this post be useful for this application or is another approach required. I quite like the idea of using a thread but surely that is also affected by the phone going into standby.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers.

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