Android :: Waking Up Screen

it's very difficult to wake the screen back up because of all the power saving things that go into effect when you turn the screen "off" using brightness = 0;Let me first point out that I'm not really tied to power constraints in this particular application.One of my assumptions is that this device (Droid) will be plugged in when this application is run. Ideally, I'd like to not hammer the battery if I don't have to, but I'm open to it if it's the only way.So, back to the issue when the display is off, pretty much everything shuts down.For instance, one idea I had was to shake the display back awake by reading the accelerometer.However, as soon as the display goes off, my listener that was reading values from the accelerometer (be it in an activity or a service) stops echoing values.I can't register any key listeners because when the display is off, if I press anything other than the unlock button (e.g. volume up/down, camera button, etc.)

In short, it appears that once the display goes dark, the only way to interact with the user is by hitting the "unlock" button.This isn't ideal because it's awkwardly placed.I had *really* hoped to be able to re-activate the device by pressing anywhere on the touch screen.I can understand that the touch screen is disabled for power reasons, but I was hoping I could override that(given I don't mind the power draw).Failing at that, I'd settle for any of the accessible keys (even the keyboard) reacting to user input and waking the thing up.