release your lock in "onPause" and not in "onDestroy" as the activity
won't be destroyed.

On Feb 4, 10:42 pm, lipinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but my intent is to prevent the system from dimming/locking
> the screen for a configurable amount of time - since there will likely
> be no user activity.
>
> setKeepScreenOn doesn't seem to indicate preventing screen lock.
>
> If I am wrong and there is a way to do this with setKeepScreenOn,
> please let me know.
>
> On Feb 4, 12:16 pm, nikhil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If you want to keep the screen on you can use the
> > setKeepScreenOn(true) method as well...
>
> > On Feb 4, 7:58 am, lipinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to implement a times WakeLock in my Application, so this is
> > > not a Service.
>
> > > I want the wakelock to simply prevent screen dimming for 3 min.
> > > Looking through the docs, this seems simple enough, but I seem to
> > > randomly encounter a Under-Locked exception that I cannot pinpoint.
>
> > > Here is my WakeLock-related code:
>
> > > in onCreate:
> > > ...
> > >         PowerManager pm = (PowerManager)
> > > getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
> > >         mWakeLock =
> > > pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK, TAG);
> > >         // Adjust time to include user's setting
> > >         int timeout = WAKELOCK_TIME -
> > > Settings.System.getInt(getContentResolver(), SCREEN_OFF_TIMEOUT, 0);
> > >         if (timeout > 0) {
> > >                 mWakeLock.acquire(timeout);
> > >         }
> > > ...
>
> > > in onDestroy:
> > >         if (mWakeLock != null && mWakeLock.isHeld() == true) {
> > >                         try {
> > >                                         mWakeLock.release();
> > >                                 } catch (Exception e) {
> > >                                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> > >                                         //e.printStackTrace();
> > >                                 }
>
> > >         }
> > >         super.onDestroy();
>
> > > As you can see, I wrap the release and try to only execute it when
> > > necessary as a clean up only.  I'm assuming that since I'm aquiring
> > > with a timeout, the PowerManager will handle the release in most cases
> > > when the timeout expires.
>
> > > I don't have a copy of the logcat at the moment, but what seems to
> > > happen is I get the Under-Locked exception randomly, and at random
> > > times (it's not always when WAKELOCK_TIME elapses).  The strange thing
> > > is that the exception does not point to my code - all the entries
> > > point to "internal" Android code.
>
> > > It's hard to find examples of other people using aquire with timeouts.
>
> > > Any ideas what I could be doing wrong here?- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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