Take the 2-minute tour ×  I want a service to be active always
in the background. Is this possible in the new SDK 7.1  I read
through the Background File Transfers, Agents, and Alarms. I
think these are only active for a period of time.  share|improve
this question Why someone in this world rate it a negative – 
Praneeth Nov 17 '11 at 7:12 I agree with Praneeth: it's a
perfectly reasonable question and it's a programming question.
This is borne out by the fact that people were able to answer it
directly. That said, I wish people in Praneeth's position would
THINK. There's a REASON MS can't allow 3rd party processes to
run indefinitely. It's a phone. Limited RAM, bandwidth and CPU.
–  Peter Wone Nov 18 '11 at 3:23 Peter I really appreciate your
response here –  Praneeth Nov 18 '11 at 4:23 add comment  2
Answers  up vote 1 down vote accepted  Short answer: you can't
Background agents can only run for 15 seconds every ~30 minutes.
Attempting to run for longer will result in the agent being
terminated and not re