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Quickie Newbie Question - Turning Phone on/off

Hi. The instructions say that you can turn the phone on and off by holding down the red phone button. This doesn't work on my xda II. Does anyone know why? Could it be something I've installed?
Thanks.

i think you have to hold the button down for a bit and then press once more there were a thread about this not that long agoe

Rudegar, I try what you explain, but it doesn't work on my Qtek 2020 too. And friends from a french forum (PDA France) with the same Qtek as me have the same problem. Do you remember where is the thread about that pb ?

well it works on xda1 and the guy in the last post claim that it's the same for xda2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4979

Thanks Rudegar. It's written in the Qtek 2020 user's Guide too that pressing and holding the red button should toggle the phone on/off, but it doesn't work. The only way is to select the "flight mode". That means : ejecting the stylus, making 2 clicks and put the stylus in his hole again. Not very intuitive. If you have an idea on how to activate this function, it would be nice ... :wink:

Turning the phone off
Pressing the red button with picture turn the "GPRS" off it it is on not the phone.
Toturn the phone off use the stylus and tap on the signal strength connectivity indicator on the top of on the display screen. You will then get a message " turn wireless off " in blue and if you tap this you will turn the phone off. You may need to use your PIN code to turn it on again ....... - So don't forget you PIN code!!!!! :mrgreen:
To turn it on again ........tap the same indicator again and you and turn on the phone.
Good Luck!!

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Rafiki said:
Pressing the red button with picture turn the "GPRS" off it it is on not the phone.
Toturn the phone off use the stylus and tap on the signal strength connectivity indicator on the top of on the display screen. You will then get a message " turn wireless off " in blue and if you tap this you will turn the phone off. You may need to use your PIN code to turn it on again ....... - So don't forget you PIN code!!!!! :mrgreen:
To turn it on again ........tap the same indicator again and you and turn on the phone.
Good Luck!!
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I know that Rafiki ! Maybe my english is not good enough and you didn't understand me.
What I want is only to be able use the red button to switch the phone on and off, as it is described in the user manual !

McDoPDA : My manual says that the red button is to end phone call or turn GPRS Off.
Most unhandy and I also find it a pain to switch the phone Off & On quickly !
:mrgreen:
Hopefully "they" will have fix for this in the future!
:roll:

Rafiki said:
McDoPDA : My manual says that the red button is to end phone call or turn GPRS Off.
Most unhandy and I also find it a pain to switch the phone Off & On quickly !
:mrgreen:
Hopefully "they" will have fix for this in the future!
:roll:
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so, let's hope "they" will do it as quick as possible ! And that it works on a french Qtek 2020 too... not only on an english XDAII ! :wink:

Hi guys,
This problem was introduced with the 1.60ROM. Before with the old ROM, I could turn my MDA II off using the red button. After the ROM upgrade it turns the GPRS off. Too bad they didn't make that a user choice.
Wouter

On my french Qtek 2020, I had the problem with the 1.52 ROM. When I upgraded to the 1.58, I still had the problem. There is no 1.60 french ROM availiable for the moment...

First Time - Hello + a few questions

Hy,
My name is Felipe and this is my first post. I wish the best for everybody here.
I just put my hands on my new XDA II and I have a few questions, if someone could help me with them I will apreciate very much.
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
2nd- I read all the manual and I saw nothing about speach dialler, I can´t belive a fantastic eletronic like this does not have this feature. I would like to confirm and if soo, I would like to know about one or two software to help me on this since I will almost always use the XDA2 on my bag and headset on.
3rd- I found the IR port just too little, I know sometimes size does not matter but have someone used the XDA2 as a remote controler for home eletronics? If it is not good enought could you please tell me if there is a IR emitter as a SD card, since the XDA2 does not have a CF card slot and the to be released backpack will have the cf slot placed in the botton. I heard that the Total Remote is a great solution, does it uses the earphone jack?
4th-I found something strange on my XDA2, on "settings" - "device information" - "call duration" I found that my unit received 1193046hours and 27 minutes of incoming calls. How this happen if the unit was suposed to be new (at least it arrived as new on box with seal, without any sign of used mark? is this any kind of test or bug? Is is possible to reset this number so I can have a real record of it?
5th- I bought a Blue Monkey usb/bluetooth dongle to be used on my desktop. I planed to use it to make the sync between the XDA2 and the descktop. But I found some problems. First I cant get the thing to work, so I ask is that possible to sync both of them with bluetooth? Two I had problems to find the descktop with my XDA2 while I had the Jabra250 instaled on the XDA2, soo can I have two bluetooth units bonded within my XDA2 or I need to chose and install only one?
Lots of questions for a first post.
I thanks in advance for the help.
Felipe

Zzzzzzz
Sorry, I fell asleep before the 2nd paragraph

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Sorry, I fell asleep before the 2nd paragraph
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Hooo please, go back to sleep, you does not make anythink better.
Felipe

felcas said:
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
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I just found out my device has deeply discharged itself over the course of just two days, so I can't test it right now. I would say it depends on the setting in one of the phone menus which determines whether any button wakes up the device, or whether you need to explicitly turn it on.
2nd- I read all the manual and I saw nothing about speach dialler, I can´t belive a fantastic eletronic like this does not have this feature. I would like to confirm and if soo, I would like to know about one or two software to help me on this since I will almost always use the XDA2 on my bag and headset on.
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No voice-dial app comes with the device. A number of voice-dial and more general voice command applications exist. "Fonix Voice Dial" and "Microsoft Voice Command" come to mind immediately. Use Google for more details.
3rd- I found the IR port just too little, I know sometimes size does not matter but have someone used the XDA2 as a remote controler for home eletronics? If it is not good enought could you please tell me if there is a IR emitter as a SD card, since the XDA2 does not have a CF card slot and the to be released backpack will have the cf slot placed in the botton. I heard that the Total Remote is a great solution, does it uses the earphone jack?
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I was thinking of performing an internal modification of the IR-port on mine.
4th-I found something strange on my XDA2, on "settings" - "device information" - "call duration" I found that my unit received 1193046hours and 27 minutes of incoming calls. How this happen if the unit was suposed to be new (at least it arrived as new on box with seal, without any sign of used mark? is this any kind of test or bug? Is is possible to reset this number so I can have a real record of it?
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That number of hours works out to exactly 0x123456 in hexadecimal, so that is unlikley to be the real number of hours. Funny though... There is at present not yet a tool or method to reset the Hmalaya call timers.
5th- I bought a Blue Monkey usb/bluetooth dongle to be used on my desktop. I planed to use it to make the sync between the XDA2 and the descktop. But I found some problems. First I cant get the thing to work, so I ask is that possible to sync both of them with bluetooth? Two I had problems to find the descktop with my XDA2 while I had the Jabra250 instaled on the XDA2, soo can I have two bluetooth units bonded within my XDA2 or I need to chose and install only one?
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I played with Bluetooth sync and found it not to be worth it at the moment. You need to hit 'Sync over Bluetooth' on the device, which is annoying, and you need to soft-reset and re-bond frequently. Wait for newer ROMs before actually using this feature.
Lots of questions for a first post.
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No worries, I stayed wide awake.... Welcome to XDA-developers...

When I got my xda2 it also said I had millions of hours of outgoing calls, once you make a call however the pointers reset to zero and start counting, so dont worry about it.

felcas said:
Hy,
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
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Refer "Start - Setting - System - Button Lock"
When it is locked u cannot on camera by pressing camera button when XDA is off

No worries, I stayed wide awake.... Welcome to XDA-developers...
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Thanks a lot Peter, that is the kind of help I was looking for

cruisin-thru said:
When I got my xda2 it also said I had millions of hours of outgoing calls, once you make a call however the pointers reset to zero and start counting, so dont worry about it.
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Yesterday I was able to use a chip of my girlfriend on my XDA2 and it worked very nice with the only exeption of the GPRS feature that I was not able to make work due to lack of information on my operator.
Anyway after I seen your post I had a look at the counter and unfortunately it did not zeroed but added the time I was using.
I will have to note it and then substract if I want to know on the future.
Anyway I thank you for the response.
Felipe

KCChia said:
felcas said:
Hy,
1st- Yesterday I had to hardreset my unit, after that I found strange that the camera button does not turn on the XDA2, it still bring the camera function but only when the XDA2 is on. I found that strange because I am almost sure that I was able to bring the camera mode on with the XDA2 off with the press of the camera button. Soo, what is up? Does the camera button had to turn on the unit or it is the only button that does not turn on the unit if pressed?
Refer "Start - Setting - System - Button Lock"
When it is locked u cannot on camera by pressing camera button when XDA is off
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Hummm, I forgot to tell that I tried to unlock the button but there is no option to lock just one button or unlock it but only all of them or none (with exeption to the power button). If I do lock, then it work as stated on the manual, but the strange is that if I unlock, the camera button continues to be the only one that does not power the XDA2 when it is off. But it work fine if the xda2 is on. I tried to assign diferent role for the camera button to see if it have to do with the assigned functions but it appear that the problem is direct related to the button not to the function.
What I would ask is to you just verify if your xda2 turn on with the camera button. And tell me.
Thanks for the help.
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Turn off the phone part

Hi,
I noticed that the Qtek 2020 doest not turn off the phone when I press and hold the red phone button.
Is that normal?? It worked fine with my XDA ( Wallaby).
regards,
Silver

When you say "turn off the phone" do you mean turn off the radio - so the device will not make or take calls?
If so, that is done by tapping the signal strength meter on the top bar and then tapping "Turn on flight mode". Flight mode gets its name from the necessity to turn off the telephone on an airplane in flight, but continue to use the PDA.
IF not this, please explain more.

Turning off the radio
Hi,
you are right I meant the radio.
With this XDA ( Wallaby) the radio can be swiched off with pressing the red phone button for 5 seconds.
This is discribed in the qtek 2020 (Himalaya) Manual as well.
But it does not work this way for me....
I wondered If you can try it with your XDA2?
Let me know.
Thanks,
regards,
Silver

Holding down the red button on my imate (and all of its cousins) disconnects the current GPRS session, it does not turn off the radio.

Yeah holding down the hang up button just disconnects GPRS on the XDA II and doesn't turn off the phone (radio).
I prefer having to switch the phone off through the signal strength box because with my XDA it used to turn the phone off in my pocket so i'd miss calls.

Thanks a lot guys. So possible misunderstood the manual then.
Thanks again.
regards
Silver

let me add that using the flight mode with XDA II is recommended in real flights as it turns off BT and IR as well ... which can intefere with the air navigation systems if left on

Hi,
Is there anybody that can write a little script with a button that could do that?
regards,
Silver

you can try PocketZenPhone. it has an option in its profiles for turning the radio off.

Thanks boybi,
A little script that playces a phone icon in the comand bar that shuts or turns the phone on would be very useful.
Can somebody do this??
regards,
Silver

Silversurfer said:
Thanks boybi,
A little script that playces a phone icon in the comand bar that shuts or turns the phone on would be very useful.
Can somebody do this??
regards,
Silver
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HTC did that.

And it works VERY WELL thank you!

Hi Satria,
This is great, and exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot.
regards,
Detlef

Problem to pair i-tech R35 and magician

I got my R35 bluetooth clip now and desperately try to pair the above two, but in vain.
I also tried to pair with my PC, an SE W810i and a Samsung SGH-X820 but none of them could find the R35.
According to the manual I do it as follows:
Switch on the R35 with the multifunctional button until the led flashes blue/red and then try to find it with the PC or mobile --> nothing!
Am I doing wrong or do you have any hints how to proceed?
Thanks so much
Wolf

have you updated the BT of your magician?
try this link in case you didn't...

websinister said:
have you updated the BT of your magician?
try this link in case you didn't...
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Thanks, but that's the one I already use.

Heh, had the same problem. You know what this can be? - You didn't turn on "Recieve All Incoming Beams" function in Settings/Connections/Beam. If You did then the problem may not be as trival.

malloth said:
Heh, had the same problem. You know what this can be? - You didn't turn on "Recieve All Incoming Beams" function in Settings/Connections/Beam. If You did then the problem may not be as trival.
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Unfortunately I did it as well.
So it seems that the clip is simply defective ;-(

I see you posted your question a long long time ago, but here is solution for your problem: you didn't press long enough the power button. You have to press it more then 8 seconds, until blue and red diodes start to blink slowly and this is how you enter in mode to connect for the first time with other device. Then your R35 bluetooth clip is ready to be recognized by other devices. When you see R35 on the other device, you have to enter pass code either "0000" or "8888" or "1234" depending of device you will not need the pass code.
If you press the power button (transparent oval button) to short time, e.g 5 seconds or less, you will only enter in power on mode (blue and red diodes blink fast), not the mode when device is suppose to connect first time with other device.
I hope this helped someone

wm6 pda2k speaker phone

​is there a way to use the pda as a speaker phone like the k-jam

just press and hold the green phone button for 3-4 secs..

pda2k
i will try the solution u gave thanks

Thanx! I must be retarded not trying this earlier

haha
Man, I must be retarded too. You should ask this question long time ago!