idleTimerDisabled not working since iPhone 3.0

Question

I have used:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].idleTimerDisabled = YES;

in a number of Apps developed and running under iPhone OS 2.x and n

Answer 1

Having same issue. It does work when the device is plugged in. You can press lock button on top, and my NSTimer fires later and causes a vibrate. However if the device is not plugged in pressing the lock button puts the device to sleep. Any solution would be greatly appreciated.

• iCodeblog posted about the idletimer, I said it didn't work, and the person who develops 'cute clock' was nice enough to reply. You have to do a hack, play a 1 second or longer silent sound every 10 or so seconds with NSTimer. This keeps the device awake even if the user hits the lock button.