It's really annoying that the default setting calls "onPause()" and then "onResume()" and because I'm doing some database related operations, closing the database and then opening it up again while another thread is trying to write to it causes exceptions all the time when user slides in/out the keyboard when the database access is running.

Wondering if there's anyway to completely ignore those signals, apart from soldering off the some hardware sensors...

Cheers!

BTW the settings already lock the screen orientation that it won't change during keyboard slide in/out.

Andy

*****PROBLEM SOLVED!*****

All I needed was this piece of magic code in manifest.xml:

I think theGoogle Android Blog will come to the rescue again .