detalhe do relatório de falha:

Hardware Model:      iPhone5,2
Exception Type:  00000020
Exception Codes: 0x000000008badf00d
Highlighted Thread:  3

Application Specific Information:
MyApp[1369] has active assertions beyond permitted time: 
{(
<BKProcessAssertion: 0x175ca7d0> identifier: Called by MyApp, from -[AppDelegate applicationDidEnterBackground:] process: MyApp[1369] permittedBackgroundDuration: 180.000000 reason: finishTask owner pid:1369 preventSuspend  preventIdleSleep      preventSuspendOnSleep 
)}

fio 3:

Thread 3 name:  com.apple.NSURLConnectionLoader
Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x3937ea50 mach_msg_trap + 20
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x3937e848 mach_msg + 36
2   CoreFoundation                  0x2e61261c __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 152
3   CoreFoundation                  0x2e610d3c __CFRunLoopRun + 788
4   CoreFoundation                  0x2e57b7a4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 520
5   CoreFoundation                  0x2e57b586 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 102
6   Foundation                      0x2efbb23c +[NSURLConnection(Loader)     _resourceLoadLoop:] + 316
7   Foundation                      0x2f030a0a __NSThread__main__ + 1058
8   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x393f8956 _pthread_body + 138
9   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x393f88c6 _pthread_start + 98
10  libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x393f6ae4 thread_start + 4

meu aplicativo usando a tarefa em segundo plano com este código em "applicationDidEnterBackground":

// 10min background task
UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier myLongTask;
myLongTask = [[UIApplication sharedApplication]
              beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler:^{
                  [locationMgrInstance timerSet];
              }];
// cell change  
[locationMgrInstance startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges];

funciona bem no iOS 6 ... mas! Afirmação de lançamento do iOS 7 após 180 seg. Socorro!