Android accelerometer not working when screen is turned off

Question

I\'m developing an application for my final thesis on computer science, and I need to collect and log accelerometer data. I need to acquire it for a whole day long, so there

Answer 1

I've ran into similar problems with the Samsung Nexus running Android 4.0.2 using other system services that stop/pause while the screen is off even though a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK is acquired. My solution was to use a SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK as in:

 lockStatic = mgr.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK,NAME);

It would be far better to have the screen fully off, but at least this solution works although it would be even better if I could limit using a SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK to only those devices/OSes that require it.