An electronic device and a method for resuming a phased platform process in the electronic device includes switching a display that is included in the electronic device from an active state to a sleep state, detecting at least one event which internally occurs in the electronic device or is caused by an external device or a user in the case where the display is in the sleep state, executing a system process if the at least one event is detected, selecting one or more non-system processes related to one or more hardware or software components of the electronic device, respectively, on the basis of at least a part of the detected event, and executing the one or more selected non-system processes by activating the one or more hardware or software components of the electronic device that are related to the one or more selected non-system processes.