windows phone 7 how to navigate to settings menu

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I have a windows phone 7 app that uses GPS to track user position. Now the user can disable this feature through the phone's setting menu. the app handles this disabling fine and gives them a message. This is all pretty standard windows phone stuff.

My question is whether I can navigate (inside the app) to the settings menu so that the user can enable phone location services? Ideally I would give them a link or a button that they touch and they are then taken out of the app to the settings menu. They would then click 'back' and return to the app.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '11 at 17:53

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No, at the moment, there's no way to fire up the Settings menu from inside your app.

answered Jul 12 '11 at 17:53

keyboardP

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There seems to be an app named toggle in the marketplace that is doing it. – Anthony Wieser Feb 17 '12 at 18:55
This answer was posted before Mango was released. Toggle is using an API introduced in Mango called the `ConnectionSettingsTask`: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh394011%28VS.92%29.aspx. It does not launch the `Settings` menu, but preset sections within the settings menu. – keyboardP Feb 17 '12 at 19:06
Toggle doesnt take you to the location services screen as there is no task for that, even in Mango. – bkaid Jun 13 '12 at 19:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:09

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Try this:

Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri(“ms-settings-location:”));

Not sure if it works on WP7 though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj662937(v=vs.105).aspx

answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:09

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