Trying to live within the IT policy

[IamTed]

Hi,
It was sugested that I post this here.
My company switched me over from a WM6.1 phone to the 8330M. I am loving getting back on the BB platform after spending 5 years of **** in WMland. The company has an IT Policy and I am having issues with the way that the 8330 is handling it. Both this phone and my WM phone lock in 15 minutes. However, on my WM phone, if I was using a GPS program, the OS took that as activity and would not lock. The 8330 seems to handle it as there has to be a keystroke for it to keep from locking. It is not that great driving down the road and you have forgotten to hit a button within the last 15 minutes and just before a turn, the phone locks up and you have to try and type in the password before you miss the turn! Is there somethig that can doon my end that would keep the phone active while using the GPS? It is worse with Live Maps, as the screen turns off in a minute while at least BBMaps doesn't do that. Being that it is a 8330M, the internatl GPS won't work with Google Maps, so I haven't even seen how it handles it.
Thanks!
Ted

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[CanuckBB]

The screen turning off agter a minute in LiveMaps is most likely a setting in LiveMaps.

For the lock, there is nothing you can do. I would suggest you bring it up with IT, and if that fails, go up your chain of command. Especially usefull would be if you are not the only GPS user in your company.

15 minutes is pretty short.

Unfortunately, if your organization won't budge, your out of luck.

And yes, that can be seen as a flaw of the BB, but then again since many apps run in the background, how can the BB distinguish between a 'live' app and just an other constant consumer of resources?

RIM had a choice between convinience and security and of course chose security.