Android - How to prevent the phone screen from turning on when volume or camera key is pressed?

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Published on 2010-06-05T20:09:54Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 20:12 UTC
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I have an activity that shows up when the phone screen goes to sleep/turns off ie turns black. For some reason, the phone turns on when the volume buttons or the camera buttons are pressed. By turns on, I mean the screen wakes up or comes back from the black screen state.

I've tried using dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) and the buttons are disabled on the activity, but they still wake up the phone.

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