How to keep NSTimer alive in Background on iOS 7?

Question

I have created Application which runs NSTimer in Background. I used the Location manager to run the NSTimer in background,

I used below link to run NSTimer in backgr

Answer 1

NSTimer *currentCycleTimer;

UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier bgTask = UIBackgroundTaskInvalid;
UIApplication *app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
bgTask = [app beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler:^{
[app endBackgroundTask:bgTask];
}];
[currentCycleTimer invalidate];
currentCycleTimer=nil;
secondsLeft = 120;
currentCycleTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: 1.0 target:self        selector:@selector(Countdown) userInfo:nil repeats: YES];

-(void) Countdown
{
  [currentCycleTimer invalidate];
  currentCycleTimer=nil;
}