I have the following goal in my application. I want to wake the phone up 
and turn the screen on for 1 second from within my service and let the 
phone go back to sleep. I would like to do this in intervals throughout the 
day. The sole purpose of this is that turning the screen on will update the 
cell network data for some devices. I use this data in my application to 
execute some actions based on the cell id.

I've used the following approach successfully on earlier releases of 
Android: acquire a wakelock with ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP 
and SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK flag with a timeout of 1000 ms.

When this executes, the screen goes on for 1 sec and then switches off. The 
problem is on 4.2 the screen stays on until the user-set display timeout 
expires, even though I've release the wakelock. I have tested this several 
times on several devices running 4.2.2 and 4.2.1. I would appreciate some 
advise on how to do this. I understand that the SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK is 
deprecated, but I have not found any other means of achieving this.

Thank you,
Sebouh.

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