iPhone Won't Sleep with Maps On

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iPhone Won't Sleep with Maps On

Hi,

I have verified this several times with my iPhone. I have mine set to sleep with 1 minute of inactivity. However, when I'm driving, if I do a map directions and set the iPhone down, it will not go to sleep at all. In fact, tonight, I had gotten directions to a movie, put the phone in my pocket when I arrived and my iPhone stayed on for 2 hours. during the show.

If I turn maps off, it goes to sleep like normal, 1 minute later.

Anybody else?

Jim

17" MacBook Pro - 2.33 GHz - Core 2 Duo -, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 3 Gbyte RAM - 250 GByte Drive

Posted on May 10, 2008 8:31 PM

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Answer 1

May 10, 2008 8:54 PM in response to HeyJP

I just tried the same.

My iPhone is set to sleep after 3 minutes of inactivity, and my iPhone went to sleep as set with Maps active.

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May 11, 2008 7:27 AM in response to Allan Sampson

allan,

You spurred me to test more. Could you try yours with "show traffic" on? Inthink that might be the trigger.

Thanks.

Jim

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LeoC2

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May 11, 2008 9:06 AM in response to HeyJP

I noticed this in February. You have to reset the phone in the setting panel and it will again sleep as normal. Here is the thread discussing this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1375163&tstart=0

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HeyJP Author

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May 12, 2008 9:36 PM in response to LeoC2

Yeah, baby! That solved it.

Go to SETTINGS/GENERAL/Reset/Reset All Settings

You'll have to add your "Favorites" back into lists. And you'll have to put passwords into your WiFi connections.

But it fixed several little weird things I had going on, including the Maps Sleep problem.

Thanks, everybody!

Jim

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Answer 5

May 13, 2008 6:42 AM in response to HeyJP

Actually this seems fairly beneficial... if you have a map up and you're driving around, etc, would be rather inconvenient to have to keep unlocking the phone to view your directions.

Just remember to hit the home screen when you're done. 😉

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LeoC2

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May 13, 2008 8:09 AM in response to summeroutside

summeroutside wrote:
Actually this seems fairly beneficial... if you have a map up and you're driving around, etc, would be rather inconvenient to have to keep unlocking the phone to view your directions.

Just remember to hit the home screen when you're done. 😉

I fully agree! At first I thought it was a new feature of the last update, I thought Maps stayed on if the iPhone was connected to external power. A needed feature, and yes I did post it to the Apple recommendation site, would be to have a preferences panel like iBooks have. If charging then sleep could be delayed or turned off in certain applications. Perhaps if it's not in 2.0 someone with the SDK will do it.

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