Prevent the device from going to sleep for fast access

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It would be nice to have an option to prevent the device from going to sleep.
Rationale:
I use an Android tablet as a remote, but the same might apply to a phone: when 
I use it as a remote, I want to wake it up fast to access the controls (Pause / 
Volume, most importantly). On a phone I have to unlock the phone, on the tablet 
I have to wake it up by pressing the power button on the side. both are rather 
inconvenient, take time, even if the Wifi is still on.
Note : battery life will suffer from this, I guess, but it's a user choice. Not 
to be enabled by default. My tablet remote will be pugged to the AC outlet more 
often than not.
Note2 : an other solution is to prevent the device from going to sleep but 
dimming the screen to make it look black so that we can wake it up by touch.

What version of XBMC Remote are you using?
0.8.4 beta

Which Android device are you using (and which ROM, if custom)?
-Phone HTC Magic running CyanogenMod 6.1 Stable (Froyo 2.2.1)
-Tablet Archos 101IT running Foryo (Archos firmware 2.0.71)

Which XBMC revision are you running and on which platform?
Latest in team-xbmc PPA for ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) 2:10.00~svn35648-lucid1 

Please provide any additional information below.
Just a big thanks to all that work on this project. I would like to contribute 
by testing/translating.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by olivier....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 10:04

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It's not a defect but a feature request I guess.

Original comment by olivier....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 10:07

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Have you tried the "Disable the Keyguard" option in the Settings?

Original comment by Gabor.Fo...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 8:44

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Hello,

Yes I have:
On the phone it prevents going to the lockscreen as per design.
On both devices however, the capacitive screen is still off, so I can't wake up 
by touching the screen. I have to push the power button on the tablet and push 
any hardware button on the phone.

I guess a good way to do what I want would be : never letting the device go to 
sleep, but instead dimming the screen (almost?) entirely.

Thanks for the feedback

Original comment by olivier....@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 9:09

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Original comment by phree...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2011 at 9:49

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-Release1.1, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect