Wp8 is incapable of background tasks

[azaright]

If i post a tweet and click send button and immediately switch to another and come back it to it,it does not send it,why? My blackberry with 256mb ram does it

 

[jfa1]

If i post a tweet and click send button and immediately switch to another and come back it to it,it does not send it,why? My blackberry with 256mb ram does it

What carrier are you on and what device do you have?

 

[azaright]

What carrier are you on and what device do you have?

Lumia 720 india docomo network

 

[Coreldan]

I'd say it's more about the app rather than the OS. The OS is capable of background tasks in general. That said, I do the same kind of thing (send/do something) and immediately go to another app and I have never noticed stuff not actually going through, however I dont use twitter so it might be something related to just that.

 

[kokola95]

Im also complaining about this.

This is Windows Phone limitation, the minimised apps are frozen therefore it cant do a thing. I hope msft will have specific API for social networking and chat app to allow this kind of purpose

 

[Mark Everingham]

I don't use twitter but what if you post using the people hub?

 

[Shouvik Mazumdar]

I think as long as your app is "allowed" to perform background task (Settings > applications > background task) , this should not be a problem. didn't use twitter but used other apps in the similar fashion u said and I didn't face any problem and this I guess is device type / network independent

 

[Florin Anghel]

I think this is related to India, you have high latency, at least high enough to not send right away. This can be carrier, or connecting to the twitter servers from an ip that is located in India. I am not experiencing any issues. WP is multi-tasking capable.

 

[AngryNil]

This is not a supported background scenario. If you switch away from an app, it will quickly freeze itself. Ideally, I'd like Microsoft to add in a background task which can execute on app suspension that will continue uploading and downloading. This should also allow for background downloads of a sort – open podcast app, it starts downloading, switch away and do something else, return with the podcasts downloaded.
This is wrong

 

[Shouvik Mazumdar]

Might be because of 2G. I use 3G Vodafone Lumia 920 and no problem with background task

 

[kokola95]

This is not a supported background scenario. If you switch away from an app, it will quickly freeze itself. Ideally, I'd like Microsoft to add in a background task which can execute on app suspension that will continue uploading and downloading. This should also allow for background downloads of a sort ? open podcast app, it starts downloading, switch away and do something else, return with the podcasts downloaded.

I really hope msft notice this.

all IM on wp doesnt work well bcs of this problem except whatsapp bcs they use the music api thingy. i have to make sure the app is on while im sending pic on LINE or kakaotalk, or it will occur an error

 

[th0mas96]

sorry, that's just wrong. the devs need to use the right services and it can work, also download things in the background. examples: MeTweets, FlashVideo TubeMusic

 

[AngryNil]

sorry, that's just wrong. the devs need to use the right services and it can work, also download things in the background. examples: MeTweets, FlashVideo TubeMusic

Prove there is a background capability that allows apps to immediately continue an upload or download task when they are frozen.

 

[vish2801]

Prove there is a background capability that allows apps to immediately continue an upload or download task when they are frozen.

If I recall, MS has left this up to devs if they want app to work in background or not for data transfer by just ticking GPS option, am I right ?? because we do have apps like tube pro and even nokia music which can download in background....

 

[manicottiK]

Prove there is a background capability that allows apps to immediately continue an upload or download task when they are frozen.

Are you looking for Background file transfers for Windows Phone?

 

[th0mas96]

Prove there is a background capability that allows apps to immediately continue an upload or download task when they are frozen.

I already gave. FlashVideo TubeMusic can download things in the background, metweets sends a tweet when I directly change to another app.

 

[svenhassel]

If you go to settings, then applications, and then background tasks, you can select which programs can continue running in the background. I think is limited to 10 (at least on my lumia 620).

I didn?t find the option for Twitter, though.

 

[foxbat121]

Background tasks are only for apps that have designed to use a separate background tasks agents to perform background operations. It's not OS's fault that particular app, like the twitter app, doesn't support this.

Basically, you have a crappy app and send blames to that app developer.

All modern phone OSes suspend apps when they are no longer the foreground app to save battery. Android is slightly more flexible that it will let apps continue to run in background if the app desires so. That's also the problem with Android that after a while your phone will become sluggish and may require manually kill the background apps.

 

[vish2801]

Are you looking for Background file transfers for Windows Phone?

Also read the limitations, now I know why UC Browser doesn't support it, app have to create local folder limited to that app's storage so the function of automatic transferring the files in their respected folders (like mp3 file in music) UC Browser does,cannot be done with this api, hope MS remove such restrictions or add own filea management system for this...

 

[McSlappy]

I'm going to go with it's the Apps problem. I'm using IM+ and it seems to have no problems with running in the background. Okay well it's daemon running in the background but still it sends and receives in the background no problem.