What would cause the XDA to come out of standby mode, and put the screen on and stay on.
I push the power button, but 30+ seconds later the unit decides to switch itself back on.
I think it some application causing this, but any ideas would help.
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I have only just got my MDA a few weeks ago & can't understand why I have missed out on such a cool tool for so long!
That aside, I was flying out of the UK this week and when I was sitting in my seat, I remembered I had to turn my phone off. Racking my brains (only having glanced at the manual for a few seconds.....I wanted to play with my phone!) I remebered something about pressing and holding the power button.......I pushed the power button for 2 seconds.......and the screen went off/ into sleep..........I tried it again & no joy.........how do I turn the fu :twisted: :evil: ing this off?
I ended up ripping the back off and taking out the battery
Is there a must be a more sophisticated way of not causing a 'plane to crash?
Tap to the radio icon (signal strength) and tap "Turn on flight mode"
Wonderful, thank you!
This makes it 'airplane safe', but I take it there is no way it can be 'turned off' as opposed to put into sleep mode?
Sleep mode is the furthest you'll make it go.
D7egm said:
I have only just got my MDA a few weeks ago & can't understand why I have missed out on such a cool tool for so long!
That aside, I was flying out of the UK this week and when I was sitting in my seat, I remembered I had to turn my phone off. Racking my brains (only having glanced at the manual for a few seconds.....I wanted to play with my phone!) I remebered something about pressing and holding the power button.......I pushed the power button for 2 seconds.......and the screen went off/ into sleep..........I tried it again & no joy.........how do I turn the fu :twisted: :evil: ing this off?
I ended up ripping the back off and taking out the battery
Is there a must be a more sophisticated way of not causing a 'plane to crash?
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Pushing the power button for 2 seconds will turn the backlight off, pushing it again for 2 seconds will turn backlight on again. With backlight off the device looks like it is off, not like some other devices where you have some kind of transreflective screen that can be used without backlight.
I think what happened to you (it has happened to me a couple of times) was:
1. Pressing power button 2 secs - turning off backlight.
2. Pressing power button shortly - going to sleep mode.
3. Pressing power button 2 secs - nothing happens.
4. Pressing power button shortly - going out of sleep, backlight still off.
The only way to wake the backlight up again is to find a strong light source to find out if the device is in sleep mode or with the backlight off. If it is in sleep mode you need to press the power button shortly to get out of it before you press power again for 2 secs to get the backlight back.
If only those idiots who wrote the manual hadn't got the most basic thing wrong, we wouldn't have to go through all this time and time again!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17085&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
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I'm sorry I asked now.........this is much more embarassing than having to rip the battery out!
Hey, don't worry about it. It's always easy when you know how. I just find it funny that they couldn't even get the on/off instructions right in the manual, and that some people insist that their way is the only way.:lol:
Imagine the hoo-hah if Ford and GM got their handbooks that wrong! :shock:
D7egm said:
I'm sorry I asked now.........this is much more embarassing than having to rip the battery out!
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There is no such thing as a stupid question. The first time it happened to me I thought the little bugger had died on me!
How can I turn off my Universal?
When I press the power button it simply goes to sleep.
anyone?
you can turn off the phone, BT, wifi etc and then put it to sleep...
is there no way to turn it off?
I am missing something?
I don't know what you expect it to do. If I switch flight mode on and push the power button then I think that it is switched off. The only other way to completely shut it off, is by removing the battery.
Hope this has helped
Euan
Guys, I've tried to make a power off switch app for non-OMAP phones (ie not the Wizard)
Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=275863#275863
V
But to answer your question straightforwardly.... No! you can't switch of the Universal as such... there is no hardware Power On/Off option... silly I know
philtech44 - did you try VJEschaton?
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Hi all,
I upgraded to an O2 Exec a little over a week ago from a Blue Angel.
Initially I had a few concerns about it, but thankfully I found this forum, and have managed to get a number of enhancements, from increased storage and better radio (v1.09) to being able to turn on the flash light using a hardware button. My Exec is now running faster than my Blue Angel ever did, and hasn't frozen once. I've already become quite attached to it.
One thing that I think would be useful would be to have the unit turn on when the lid is opened, and off when it is closed. In the Power settings you can uncheck the box that turns off the device if it is not used for x mins, which has the effect that the screen will come on whenever the lid is opened. However, because the device is still running the battery still takes quite a hit even though the screen is turned off, and even when you lower the cpu speed.
Is it possible to turn the device on and off by opening and closing the lid?
Cheers
Rowan
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Hi, I have mine set to come on and off when you open close the lid, and it's set exactly how you have said. Power settings, and stop the device going off. And Backlight settings, stop the backlight dimming, and lower the backlight when on battery mode.
There is no "off" mode like Nokia handsets, only Standby, which is what happens when the screen is closed. (I think).
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Hi, I have mine set to come on and off when you open close the lid, and it's set exactly how you have said. Power settings, and stop the device going off. And Backlight settings, stop the backlight dimming, and lower the backlight when on battery mode.
There is no "off" mode like Nokia handsets, only Standby, which is what happens when the screen is closed. (I think).
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You're not really going into standby mode by closing the case, try switching on wifi or bluetooth and look at the flashing indicator LED, it will still be going whien the case is closed. Nowtap the power button to put the device into standby, no more flashing LED. The phone LED still flashes which is a good thing otherwise you wouldn't be able to recieve calls in standby.
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Nowtap the power button to put the device into standby, no more flashing LED. The phone LED still flashes which is a good thing otherwise you wouldn't be able to recieve calls in standby.
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From what I know, the Universal has no real OFF mode, only standby, EVEN WHEN YOU PRESS THE POWER BUTTON. On mine, BT and WiFi still flashes even when I press the power button or just close the screen.
Pressing and holding the power button turns the backlight off, a quick press (or tap as I said before) makes it go to standby and should turn off everything but the phone part.
Okay well weve taken a really fun detour discussing the technicalities of standby and 'power off' but lets digress for a moment back to the original topic...
Rabangus, seems the best option you have is what you were doing. The hit to battery shouldnt be that large. I gave it a try not too long ago the way you and the other member had it set up again, and yes youll definitely have to charge it every night but it was doable. But I wasnt using wifi or bluetooth either. I am surprised that using Xscaler it still takes way to much battery. I assume thats what you are using to lower the CPU.
Oh well unfortuntely thats the way it is chief.
This is NOT a JOKE!
I have a HTC Apache.
How can I turn the phone off?
Button 1. Press to turn on and off your device or backlight.
a.When I press it, the backlight turns off, press it again turns backlight on.
b.Hold it down and it just turns the backlight off
I am downloading HTC Apache AKU 2.2 Software Update now and will install it shortly
As far as I'm awarem you can't turn them off... If you don't want to be disturbed, turn flight mode on, but I've never figured out a way to actually turn it off, short of ripping the battery out, but this might be risky on some devices. Sorry, I don't know much about the devices I don't have, and I only have a Blue Angel and a Universal...
I've not tried it on the apache, but could you try my program VJEschaton, using the option
Code:
VJEschaton -sleep
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=275863#275863
It should be able to put Intel xscale based phones to long term sleep (ie effectively switch it off).
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Thanks for the infor.
Why would they make a phone without a OFF SWITCH???
In the manual it says, "Always turn off your device before perorming a soft reset or install/replace the battery..
Don't get me started on them not including the power off feature:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=319367#319367
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A short press of the standby button will put the PDA in standby. Holding it longer turns the backlight on and off.
If you hold the end call button for a few seconds, it puts the phone part in flight mode.
I pick up mu GT hit the screen on button nothing. I ve had it just over a week now. It was great at the start but over the last couple of days it keeps turning itself off. Is anyone else having this issue.
Thanks
Is it where it won't turn on? I thought mine was busted the day after I/O cause it wouldn't seem to turn on no matter what. Then I held the power button for like 60 seconds and it finally shut off, then was able to turn back on.
No i have to hold the power switch down for 10 secs or so to get it to turn on then it takes ages to boot. If its just mine ill be talking to vodafone about a replacement i think.