I have the original Samsung Galaxy and while using it, I also used it as a dash cam. DailyRoads Voyager is a good app that did what it should. It ran perfectly fine in the background (screen off and all), and getting videos from the SD card was not an issue. After I updated to Lumia 925, I still used Samsung as dash cam because of SD card. Well, video was not the best quality and resolution was limited to 720, but it worked. Now recently I got a Lumia 820 for free. So I decided to use it as dash cam (1080, better camera, better optics, well, you understand). But there are no apps that can record in the background. I'm not a technical person, but what I gathered from a quick search is that Microsoft still limits severely what apps can do in the background. And apparently recording in the background is not supported.
There is also an issue of getting recorded videos off the phone, because they are saved on those hidden partitions along with the program, but I don't know if it's Microsoft forcing developers to do that, or it's just developers choosing to do so.
Anyway being a somewhat proactive member of WP, I decided to make a petition on WP feedback page, and now I am asking you to support me right here: Allow camera to run in the background – Feature Suggestions for Windows Phone
Unless of course I am being stupid and don't understand something, then feel free to point it out.
Thanks
There is also an issue of getting recorded videos off the phone, because they are saved on those hidden partitions along with the program, but I don't know if it's Microsoft forcing developers to do that, or it's just developers choosing to do so.
Anyway being a somewhat proactive member of WP, I decided to make a petition on WP feedback page, and now I am asking you to support me right here: Allow camera to run in the background – Feature Suggestions for Windows Phone
Unless of course I am being stupid and don't understand something, then feel free to point it out.
Thanks