Prevent screen timeout in Flash 10.1 for Android

Is there a way (in AS3 or the HTML container) to prevent the phone's screen from turning off while playing a game in Flash? I'm working on some game prototypes for Flash Player 10.1 on Android 2.2, and it seems that as long as I'm touching / clicking the screen it doesn't time out, but if I haven't clicked for a while or if I'm making something controlled mainly by the accelerometer, the phone's standard timeout for the screen kicks in.
Apps developed to run on Android have a way of preventing the screen's timeout from kicking in for accelerometer-based games, though I haven't found a way to do this for an in-the-browser Flash game. At the moment designing something for the accelerometer is pointless, since without touch interaction the screen's going to turn off in 30 seconds or however the user's screen timeout is set.

On a similar note, how do you prevent XMLSocket timeout, when the screen saver turns on? Our application preriodically sends keep-alive messages to the server, but apparently when Android screen saver turns on, the Flash stops running even when the browser with embedded app is up, and the socket connection times out, so the user does not get new notifications...

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