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Stupid Questions: 1. how do you turn the xdaII off?

This is my first pda so please forgive the stupid questions...
1. I am at a loss as to how i can switch off the xdaII completely. I can dim the screen, and switch off the screen, but not the entire xdaII. The bluetooth light and the green light flash continuously, unless i remove the battery catch down.
2. is there a way of getting a better battery indicator at the top, without having to go through the settings menu all the time. I can't seem to create shortcust of any kind.
3. ultra profiler... is it just me... i switch it to silent and it makes no difference.
Thanks...

Why would you want to turn it all the way off? This results in what is known as a "cold boot" - everythng in RAM (even the current date & time) is erased and the phone goes back to the way you bought it.
I don't know how to do it on the XDAII. On the XDA you press a piece of the stylus into a little hole on the bottom.

Fais, on the XDA 1, to switch off both phone and pda, first either hold down the red handset button for a while or tap the signal meter top right of screen and switch off radio/phone, then hit the power button once for a very short time. This will switch off phone and pda. I cant comment on xda2, dont you have a user guide?

Fais said:
1. I am at a loss as to how i can switch off the xdaII completely.
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2. is there a way of getting a better battery indicator at the top, without having to go through the settings menu all the time.
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Well, you must turn off the PDA part and the telephone part separately. For the PDA part, there's a hardware button (which I guess you knew already... ). To turn off the phone part, tap on the antenna indicator and select the first "link" in the bubble that appears. On an MDA I, the phone could also be turned off by holding the red "hang-up" hardware button for a few seconds. This does not work with the MDA II. It's not clear if this is a bug that will be corrected through a software update or if it's a feature.
Note that all that does not really turn your MDA II completely off. But you don't want that anyway, because you'd lose all your data and installed programs, as they are in RAM only.
There are many programs that can display battery and/or storage indicators on your "today" screen. Try searching for "battery" at Handango. The only program I found so far that indicates the battery status directly in the navigation bar is SmallMenu (http://tillanosoft.com/ce/smenu.html)
Cheers
Daniel

1. Tap on the network indicator, on the right middle part of the Navigation Bar (at the top of the screen), then click on "Turn Wireless Off". Then click on the Bluetooth connection on the right side of the command bar (bottom bar), and select OFF. All your flashing lights will go off.
2. Download "BatMemTime" (find it on Google). It is a free today plug-in
3. I don't use ultra profiler. You may try "My Phone Profile" by JGUI, I think it has more features.

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1. Tap on the network indicator, on the right middle part of the Navigation Bar (at the top of the screen), then click on "Turn Wireless Off". Then click on the Bluetooth connection on the right side of the command bar (bottom bar), and select OFF. All your flashing lights will go off.
2. Download "BatMemTime" (find it on Google). It is a free today plug-in
3. I don't use ultra profiler. You may try "My Phone Profile" by JGUI, I think it has more features.
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Thanks everyone for the replies and links to batt indicators... that was a big help!! i've been so used to the p800 that all this is so new to me... The manual doesn't make it clear for a non-pda user about switching the xdaII off.... not to me anyway.
Tekflow thanks... i can switch off the bt quickly and switch on just as easily now... and more important sleep without having to cover the phone with by jacket at night :roll:

JJ impression

After using the JJ for a week i have following observation. Appreciate others feedback if they are also having same problems.
1. The voice dial is not working if the flip is closed. (i have tried the enabling/disabling "turn off device if not used for ..." option but no luck, although it was working but once i pair a bluetooth headset it stop working. however from bluetooth headset it is working)
2. Cannot add multiple receipnt in SMS like PDA2K. i have to add one one by one, which is really a pain.
3. The wireless manager icon in the desktop is not showing the activity correctly. if i turn on the wifi the icon should turn green and during off the icon will accompnay a cross sign. Unfortunaly the icon always shows green.
i have tried both shipped and latest ROM update but no luck yet.
i am not sure if these are bugs. Please advice.

wahidullah said:
3. The wireless manager icon in the desktop is not showing the activity correctly. if i turn on the wifi the icon should turn green and during off the icon will accompnay a cross sign. Unfortunaly the icon always shows green.
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Turn on flight mode and you will see icon cross sign.
Manual's bug?
Have Fun.

yer that icon's greeness relates to all bt, phone and wifi comms so if any are active its green,
maybe if it alternated every seconds green, blue, cyan for phone, BT, wifi, for the actual active services it would make more sence. heyho

thanks for the clarifications. how about SMS and voice dialing issues? Are you guys facing same problem?

Yep i've got the same problem, use mine for email alot too, so its even more annoying when trying to send a new email to 10 people at once

Help and advice for T-Mobile MDA II

Hi there,
I'm currently trying to help a friend of mine that owns the above model of PDA. He is having trouble accessing the phonebook to save contacts. Everytime you click to access it it just reverts back to the phone dialer screen. I have tried both a hard and soft reset but nothing seems to work. He also is interested in using it as a GPS system. As it stands he only has the PDA and charger as he lost the box with the rest of the gear. As far as i can tell, i'm going to have to get him a memory card, GPS reciever and some software (probably TOM-TOM) as well as a data cable to load it all up. Any suggestions regarding this would also be appreciated.
thanks in advance
Blokey

my xda2 dident come with a datacable for anything but the cradle
so i would guess that it's the gps antenna which comes with the cable
if it's supports the pda
and you are a bit vague as to what your friend is trying to do when he end up on the phone dialer dialog
you can access contacts by
1 pressing the button in the left upper corner (unless it have been asigned to something else)
2 you can choose contacts in start menu or programs
3 you can press the icon in the buttom of the screen in the menu in side the phone application dialog

When you try any of the things above it quickly flashes up the contacts screen and then reverts back to the phone dialer screen.
Cheers for the quick response,
Blokey

blokey said:
When you try any of the things above it quickly flashes up the contacts screen and then reverts back to the phone dialer screen.
Cheers for the quick response,
Blokey
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Does he perhaps have a stuck key? Like the phone button stuck hald way? That would cause the contacts to disappear.

Bluetooth icon..

I never see an icon anywhere on screen when Bluetooth is turned on. My only indicator is the top left led flashes blue. Is this normal on an O2 XDA Mini S?
Also is it normal that anytime an app starts Bluetooth because it's needed yet you have it Off, do you find that when you close that app, Bluetooth stays on? Very annoying

This will start you off http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=44480

how to remove notification ??

hello all X1 users
when request to make call through speed dial one bubble ask to confirm coming from upper bar with "yes"and"no" buttons.
using SE panel 1
any idea or REG tweak to remove this bubble and executing call immediately after pressing the speed dial ???this will be more safe whenever you need to make call when driving car .
thanks in advance

Yeah these bubbles are annoying, also popup for wifi, bluetooth and phone on off icon.
Anyway press and hold for quickdial is how I do it !

loggy said:
Yeah these bubbles are annoying, also popup for wifi, bluetooth and phone on off icon.
Anyway press and hold for quickdial is how I do it !
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I've just tried TomTom 7 with xperia x1 and it works great expect for some damn popups. I had my earphones connected to the device, and WM kept bugging me with pop-up telling me the ive connected stereo phones. The pop-up never went away, and i had to repeatedly press on the screen to make i go away and tom tom to keep updating my position. That was both dangerous and annoying.
So anyone know how to get rid of the popups?

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