How can I keep my Glink session alive?

Do you experience that your Glink sessions are disconnected when the device is idle, not in use or when you are using other applications on your Android device?

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This can happen because Android wants to save battery when an application is not used or the device is not in use and has entered Lock mode, or it can be network equipment or the server application that Glink is connected to that wants to remove idle/inactive sessions to free resources.

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Here are some Glink options you can use to keep your session alive:

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• Menu -> General options -> Never Auto-Lock when connected -> Enable

• Menu -> General options -> Ignoring battery optimizations -> Enable

• Menu -> Settings -> Telnet options -> Keep alive type -> Telnet

• Menu -> Settings -> Telnet options -> Keep alive interval -> 60 

  • With the latter parameter, a Telnet NOP packet will be sent after 1 minute of inactivity and repeated every minute.

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You may also want to change the Android Settings parameter for Display -> Screen timeout to a higher value or to Never.

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