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I have just realised that the setSearchTimeout is only allowing a max low priority search of 25s rather than the max the hardware is capable of e.g. 10+ minuets. Is there any way I can set this max hardware value? What is the reasoning for this?

With the old API's my setup was to do an initial search with a relatively small timeout of about 30s then on a successful connection I set the timeout to the max non infinite option. Moving over to the new channel APIs I went with a specific 25s initially then set to MAX assuming that that was the hardware max as before.
     

Hi ifor,

The search timeout is limited to 25s to limit interference with other channels. Depending on the search configuration of 2 searches (ie. different networks), then they may not be able to run at the same time and thus will be blocked/queued. You can have your apps search continue for as long as you require by reopening the channel on a search timeout event, noting that if there is a competing search this will get a chance to run first.      

OK thanks for the explanation. I understand the reasoning now. I may go and lower the timeout then and put my own retry wrapper in place.

Ifor