Looking for a way to "auto launch" a program in the backgound on a timer....

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I think Mortscript would be best for this situation. You could just drop the script in your startup folder and have it running all the time, with a loop every two hours or however often you wish for it to update. The whole thing could be automated this way, but its still not going to be in the background by any means. Its definetly gonna turn the screen on and google maps will be in the foreground etc. I think even this will put a decent hit on your battery life, and you'll have to add safeguards into the script to make sure it doesnt try to run while your in a call. I think that even if it happened to run while your doing anything else like writing a text message could be very annoying.