How to prevent monkey to open status bar?

Question

I want to use android's monkey for stress test my app but monkey opens status bar and changes settings on my phone.

To start monkey I use:

 adb -s S5660a19e722f shell monkey -p com.lmmx.app -v -v -v 10000 --throttle 500

I thought that -p com.lmmx.app parameter must prevent this... I use 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 phones for testing.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have a 5.0(lollipop) phone and was able to do this with screen pinning

1. activate it with settings>security>screen pinning
2. press the app switcher/multitasking button next to your home button
3. on the bottom corner of each app in the recents apps list will be a pin icon

From there you can run monkey on your device without it changing.