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Embarassing........

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!

turning off?

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
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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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GPS Turns off in sleep mode

Hello i've a question about the gps module in the diamond 2.
I sometimes use rungps on my mountainbike but when i use the button above on the hardware to turn the screen off, also my gps turns off. How can i fix this problem? Is there a solution to use gps in stand by mode or something?
I've this phone for a short time so... when people do have tips for other handy software, you're welcome

BlackMe
Just use this Tool to switch your screen off.

Weird. I use Rungps as well, but no problem so far of losing signal after pressing the button. It happens with TomTom; if I press the button, the signal is lost.

[Q] sleeping mode and waking up

Hi,
I have a friend who is disabled and want to buy the desire hd.
But before he has a question.
When the phone is in sleeping mode, how do you wake it up ?
With the on/off button ?
If yes, is it possible to wake it up with the tactil buttons at the bottom ?
Thanks

Hi mate, really sorry about your friend - hope he enables again soon. On topic, when the phone sleeps you hit the power button to wake it up.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

tony28 said:
Hi,
I have a friend who is disabled and want to buy the desire hd.
But before he has a question.
When the phone is in sleeping mode, how do you wake it up ?
With the on/off button ?
If yes, is it possible to wake it up with the tactil buttons at the bottom ?
Thanks
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yes the sleeping mode is turned on/off via the power button though im sure someone can alter it to make it turn on/off at the buttons below though it wouldnt work very well as if it gets touched it will wake the phone up lol

Thanks for your answers
This was my question

What about alarm wake up ? Is alarm working to wake you up in the mornings once we power off the device before we go to the bed?

Calls & Messages
With the phone turned off (standby mode) is the phone still able to receive calls and messages?

Sure it is
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Can't come back from sleep through dock?

Before the ICS upgrade i was able to come back from a lock sleep via a simple keypress on the dock but now after i press the lock button on the dock (then it goes to sleep), i cant unlock it via a keypress anymore and my mobiledock battery saving mode is already disabled..anyone else facing the same prob?

mod pls close this thread, didn't see the other thread earlier on the same subject