@ Dianne Hackborn, this is a big issue and I guess deserves more than your wishy-washy answer. Android/Java are not just programming languages but cultures that define the people who dont want sticking to control freaks such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Many people like to have this feature so that they can use the mobile as a monitoring device for large projects. I am happy to sacrifice a phone' battery to do the job I need without publishing this on Google Play. Currently, I leave the screen on which is a lot worse than leaving just the accelerometer on. Seeing this topic in many places, I think Android team should allow people to do whatever they like with their phone.
On Saturday, August 29, 2009 at 1:04:11 AM UTC+10, polymorph wrote: > > Hi, > I have written an application (a service) that uses the accelerometer > to detect movement, and up until recently this has worked fine when > the device was in standby. It has been regularly tested on HTC G1 > and Magic and tested specifically to work under these conditions, but > it seems that a recent Firmware upgrade may have broken this (my Magic > stopped working in this scenario since the last firmware I think, a > few weeks ago). I have recently acquired an HTC Hero and this also > fails to get the notifications. > > What seems to occur now, is that the > SensorEventListener.OnSensorChanged() messages are not occuring at all > in standby, and they continue once the device is switched back on. > > The application also checks for other changes such as GPS location > changes, and these continue to work in standby, so I would expect the > sensor messages to also continue to get through as they did > previously. > > I have tried a wakelock, but only the full, screen-on wakelock allows > it to work, which is undesirable behaviour. > > Can anyone help? This has effectively broken my Android Market > application :( > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/ee782441-e67e-47d3-9cd8-9b96d770bae6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
