Preventing auto lock on Windows phone

Question

When the user installs the application for the first time on Windows Mobile, I am creating some encryption keys to do the authentication of the application with some webservices.

The problem that I have is that the phone is autolocking and the task is canceled. I am not able to prevent it from closing.

I have used this in the mainpage.xaml load:

PhoneApplicationService.Current.UserIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Disabled;

and even in the App.xaml:

 private void Application_Launching(object sender, LaunchingEventArgs e) { PhoneApplicationService.Current.UserIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Disabled; }

but still it is not working. Any help, please, the task is taking about 2 min.

Roy Dictus · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-13 12:32:16Z

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You need to set ApplicationIdleDetectionMode. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.shell.phoneapplicationservice.applicationidledetectionmode(v=vs.105).aspx.

answered Jun 13, 2013 at 12:32

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Ignacio Soler Garcia Over a year ago

Agree. That's the way to go. VS2012 has this setting on its WP8 template.

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