That's why you'd use a *partial* wakelock.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Jordan Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > My fault for not explaining myself better. I want to still be able to > collect accelerometer data while the display is off. I'm well aware of > the fact that I can keep the display on, but if I want to, for > instance, create a pedometer application that counts footsteps while > in the user's pocket, then the last thing I want is to keep the > display to be on the whole time. > > Cheers, > Jordan > > On Mar 14, 3:20 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/PowerManager.WakeLo... >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Jordan Frank <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > Although I haven't received confirmation from anyone at Google, I can >> > confidently state that when the power to the display goes off, one can >> > no longer obtain data from the accelerometers. I can easily think of a >> > number of examples of where one would like to continue collecting >> > accelerometer data even when the display is of. >> >> > Supposing that I wanted to "fix" this, can anyone suggest where should >> > I start looking? Would this be in the SDK, the kernel, or in some >> > proprietary firmware that I can't touch? >> >> > Thanks, >> > Jordan Frank >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
