I have been trying to find a way to turn off the display, and wake up from the user touching the touch screen.
The device is in an embedded environment where the device
You can do one thing that is Acquire Partial Wakelock and turn the Screen Off using :
PowerManager.WakeLock wl = manager.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, "Your Tag");
wl.acquire();
WindowManager.LayoutParams params = getWindow().getAttributes();
params.screenBrightness = 0;
getWindow().setAttributes(params);