Nokia 800 auto lock screen

Question

Is there any way to disable auto screenlock?
It only has 4 time periods, 30s, 1m, 3m and 5m.
Other Windows phones allows off, so it seems Nokia has done this by design.
This is an extremly annoying feature if driving where I listen to music from the phone through the sterro, if I want to skip a song I have to unlock first which is distracting and dangerous instead of simply swiping.
I can understand it can save battery but when it's plugged in this isn't an issue, plus I lock my phone when I put away anyway.
This is a design feature which is forced on us instead of allowing us to choose for ourselves.
Os there anyway this can be changed in a future update.
As I said other windows phones like HTC HD7 never had this so its not the OS.
It also does it while using maps with navigation, which is useless, it doesn't seem to do it with Nokia drive though.

Answer 1

This seems to be an issue with Windows Phone. On my Nokia Lumia 800 I also don't have the 'never' option. However, my friend has the exact same phone and he DOES have that option. The only difference I can think of so far is that I use a password to unlock the screen and he doesn't. In that case it is kind of logical that the 'never' option is missing when you require a password to use the phone. However, even when I disable the password, the 'never' option does not return...
For me it is an issue during my running work out with the Sports Tracker app. When running, I don't want to enter a password each time I need to check the status in the app. So before I start running, I disable the password and set the screen lock to it's max of  5 minutes but I still find it very annoying that I have to swipe away the screen lock before I can see my running stats.
I search the internet high and low and find many posts in forums from people with the same issue, but no post at all that actually confirms this is a bug or 'expected' behavior.
Also not encouraging, I also found this post that says this issue also exists in Windows Phone 8.
During my search I also found the official Windows Phone Forum here.
And you may want to give your vote to this idea about this the screen lock issue.
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I am using a Nokia Lumia 800.
Thank you
John-Pierre