Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote:

> Um, you need to release it at some point.  Once you release it, you don't
> need to do anything with it any more if you don't want.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM, madcoder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the example here:
>>
>> It shows:
>>
>> PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService
>> (Context.POWER_SERVICE);
>>  PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock
>> (PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag");
>>  wl.acquire();
>>   ..screen will stay on during this section..
>>  wl.release();
>>
>>
>> Once the wake lock is received from the pm, can the reference to the
>> pm be set to null?  Is it needed any more?  Or is there some reason to
>> keep it?
>>
>> It seems like the wl reference is the only one needed.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dianne Hackborn
> Android framework engineer
> [email protected]
>
> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on public
> forums, where I and others can see and answer them.
>
>
> >
>

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