On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Lee <lee.wil...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> You can detect screen off and set an alarm every 5 seconds to poke the
> service if you want to keep it doing something.
> While the service is busy, make sure you hold a partial wake lock.
> Have a look at the SMSPopup for an example of wakelock management.
>

Please don't do this.  Waking up from an alarm every 5 seconds is going to
cause a noticeable drain on the battery.

-- 
Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
hack...@android.com

Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.

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