Preventing Auto-Lock without user interaction?

[sinr]

I'm looking for a way to prevent the phone from auto-locking. As is, it requires user interaction to avoid auto-locking. Instead, I'd like the phone/screen to just stay on without user interaction.

I notice that playing movies will prevent auto-lock and thought about hacking something in, but I'd like to avoid ugly hacks.

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For example: can I throw simulated touch events to the system to make the phone think someone touched the screen? Or disable the auto-locking through a system preference API?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[redcard]

Uhhh, set auto-lock to 'never'?

[Eurisko]

What he said

[nickswagger]

yeah, what they said

[Broomhead]

Thread moved

[sinr]

Uhhh, set auto-lock to 'never'?

Crap, I wasn't specific enough :-( Sorry everyone.

I meant how to prevent the phone from auto-locking programmatically (via the toolchain or SDK). For example: can I throw simulated touch events to the system to make the phone think someone touched the screen? Or disable the auto-locking through a system preference API?

Can this be moved back to the iPhone/iPod Development forum?

Thanks!

[Broomhead]

Moved back

[Hackin' Fool]

You should just have to set the auto lock to never. If that doesn't work, go into the Prefrences.app bundle and you have to edit on of the plists. On the plist you set all times related to auto lock to -1. You can also add different times to set the auto lock to and different choices in Settings>General>Auto-Lock i.e. 30 seconds, 20 min, an hour... This is the best plist file I have ever messed with because you dont have to change the code to accomplish your goal.