The speed of your data connection has nothing to do whether your screen is on or not. As Marco already said, when your Wifi data connection is idle, it will turn of the Wifi radio. When the phone goes back to active mode Wifi reconnects. In case of cellular you are not in control of your data connection when your data connection is idle, because in such a case you also get disconnected and lose your IP connectivity.
You might want to check the download pattern using Wireshark. The latest Wireshark has some pretty cool new features which support analysis of your data traffic. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Oct 8, 4:18 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an app that keeps pulling data from the network. I noticed that > my downloading speed seems to have slowed down if I let the phone's > screen to black out. > > Is this true? > > Is there a way to tell Android "keep using full network speed even > when screen is blacked out"? > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
