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Originally Posted by nickerjones
Doesnt the app continue to run even when the screen is black ? I know when I am driving I will "wake up "my iphone and its still running... I wouldnt think it would cause burn in if the image isnt on the screen all the time
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Before the 3.x firmware release, that was the case, and everything was tickety boo. But for some reason 3.x firmware seems to be a bigger battery drain so now apps can't run with the display in sleep. At least no peripherals.
So when you press the sleep button it kills the connection to the GPS and stuff. You can do some tricks to get around that, like looping a silent song in the background and somehow that keeps the application active to collect GPS positions. However, if you're using the MapKit API (and I strongly figure BNID are) that doesn't respond for some reason.
It's a major frustration for developers if you ask me.