Is it possible to turn off the phone, but stay with bluetooth turn on&
you can, just switch the flight mode on (click on network indicator on the top bar and select "turn on flight mode")
Like this, phone function will be powered off, but pda and it's utilities won't.
Bluetooth will also be turned off in flight mode, all wireless communication will be
sorry to disagree but i just made the test now and with FLIGHT MODE ON my bluetooth still works.
What happens is when you turn on the flight mode the bluetooth will be disconnected, but if you turn the bluetooth on it will remain on and working.
Well then your phone must be faulty because in a flight no wireless communication is supposed to take place and when i did what you said my phone turned the bluetooth off and said "Turn off flight mode first".
In a flight any Ghz Band Communicatioin (GSM/GPRS/Bt/WiFi) Could disrupt comunications between Flight and Tower so all that has to be turned off in a flight.........
georgexoasi said:
Well then your phone must be faulty because in a flight no wireless communication is supposed to take place and when i did what you said my phone turned the bluetooth off and said "Turn off flight mode first".
In a flight any Ghz Band Communicatioin (GSM/GPRS/Bt/WiFi) Could disrupt comunications between Flight and Tower so all that has to be turned off in a flight.........
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@georgexoasi I don't disagree on your point about DSM/GPRS/WiFi because it interfere with radionic-link. Bluetooth don't because it uses not such a high impedance radio transmition to work. Although some flight companies ask not to use any kind of radio transmitions, most of flight companies allow bluetooth because it does not interfeer with radio communications and they are not able to detect if you use it or not during the flight. Also notice that bluetooth operate on 2.4GHz frequency (it's and unlicensed frequency, usually used for garage doors openers, microwave ovens, and things like that), were is no way to interfeer with plaine-tower communications that use much higher frequencies.
Still you say that your phone is able to operate BT in flight mode? That has never happened in any phone that has flight mode that i have used viz. 6630,P800,P900,P910i,I-Mate, O2-Mini. None support it. if u go to offline/flight mode all radios go off
Yes i tested again with Qtek S100 and the BT works with Flight Mode ON.
Later I can try with Nokia 9500 Communicator to see what happens.
I agree with georgexoasi. You cannot use Bluetooth when Flight mode is enabled. Maybe you did a REG tweak but normally it won't work
@georgexoasi
Did you try to do it or are you only saying that enabling Bluetooth doesn't work while in flymode? For me it makes sense to allow this to the user since people might want to use Bluetooth without using the phone (as like a normal PDA). The only possibility to turn off the phone is to go into flymode (without using any extra software). That doesn't always mean you're currently flying. On my Magician, you can go into flight mode and turn the Bluetooth radio back on. Maybe it depends on the ROM version you use.
@coelhoapm
Bluetooth don't because it uses not such a high impedance radio transmition to work
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What are you talking about? The impedance is given by the medium (air) and can't be changed. What you mean might be the low power that is used for transmitting bluetooth signals. That indeed counts since it only can slightly interfere with the onboard electronics. But, to be honest, do you really think all people always turn off their phones on all flights. It doesn't seem that modern planes have trouble with this, which is good :shock: .
Ofcourse i tried it it is not possible
In flight mode, when I press the BT icon I get a warning: "Please switch off flight mode first!". When I switch off flight mode, BT switches ON automatically. It's weird that some device allow it. Never had a phone that allows BT in flight mode either!
I just contacted Portuguese Airforce and BT are generally allowed when flying. The criterium of allowing or not depends on the flight company.
By the way... A friend has a BlueAngel and I asked him to test this... and BT on blueangel also work when flight mode is on...
Well.keep saying it if it makes you feel better......
Adios i gues i've said what has to be and believing or not is upto u.
Ok, enough of the arguing!!! 8)
To settle this, I have a XDAIIi / Alpine and my bluetooth does NOT work when flight mode is enabled.
Coelhoapm post pictures of your today screen with flight mode enabled and the bluetooth icon showing that it is actually ON.
I actually want it to work, so is there any REG Hacks that can enable this to work, if anyone knows please post.
Cheers,
LydiaChris
flight mode
Hi i just tried flight mode then re-enabling bluetooth it left the phone switched off but said yurn on flight mode again at top of screen.
Mda2(Himalaya) 8)
Hope this helps
@georgexoasi & lydiachris
Attached the picture of my screen with Bluetooth and Flightmode enabled. I guess it's due to my old Firmware which is the first that was released (1.01 or something). This looks like a real drawback of the newer firmwares (where as I'm still looking for their advantages ...).
Enough said!!!
Sorry about that
VERY nice today screen background, where did you get it from!?!?!?
Nothing to feel sorry about. As i said, it might be due to different ROM versions. I prefer it the way it's done on my ROM actually, because I can use all combinations, especially I could use my Magician as normal PPC even when the SIM card is inserted.
Concerning your question about the background: It belongs to an extended theme for SPB Pocket Plus, called Spb Black Ext. You can download it from their site I think. I am only using the system icons for battery, light etc. from another theme because they are smaller.
hello, worse that everything you said, I tried to enable bluetooth and Wireless and both are working in flight mode.
I think is a bug from rom 1.40.0 of Qtek 9090
Regards
Marcus
Hi guys,
do you know a way or app that will allow me bluetooth in airplane mode?
It is ****ty thing 'cause when I take off and I am permitted to use any device like my mobile I can not use BT in airplane mode, I have BT headset. If I turn off airplane mode then mobile will scan for cellular network and drain my battery.
This is possible in WinMobile. I can not believe that nobody has thought about it.
I have found one app that is not working on DHD and one workaround.
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/travel_and_local/airplane-mode-wifi-tool_fmc.html
Open your dialer, dial *#*#4636#*#* (4636 = info, btw) this will open at test menu. Navigate to "phone info", scroll down to "turn radio off" and presto, you have gps, wifi and bluetooth, but no data, sms, or voice. I would be careful messing with other settings in this menu, by the way.
Is there any tweak or app?
Issue 9142: Inconsistency in Airplane mode (Bluetooth)
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9142
not sure if this should be asked in general discuss or the q&a section so yeah...
I wanted to refresh my WiFi signal on my tablet so I put it to airplane mode, but accidently i slid the wifi back on WITH airplane mode still active. so... basically I'm running on both airplane and WiFi at the same time?
** seems Bluetooth,NFC,Location and GPS can all be turned on without deactivating the airplane mode.....
usually airplane mode shuts off all data and or radio frequencies on a device right? so what's the point of airplane mode? on a WiFi only device?
sent from xda headquarters.... no lie
In theory - airplane mode should switch off all transmitters.
I typically do that on my cell phone, then enable wifi for use in my house.
I view Airplane mode as a Master Off, with individual services able to be turned on even if it is in Airplane Mode.
Its always been so. Airplane maode turns off the radio, not wifi, bluetooth and so on. the confusion occures because our current generation devices usually have same chips and antenna for them.
Basically, radio signals emitted from cellphone can alter/affect the reading in airplane(and other things that run on radio, bt wifi, bluetooth run on far different frequency waves and thus are allowed in aviation and thus not controlled by airplane mode.
Just got the new nexus 4 and I'm trying to set it up like my galaxy nexus. I have tmobile's $30 / month plan and use sipdroid at home to make wifi calls so as not to go into my 100 minutes.
It seems like auto AP does not work on the nexus 4. In addition, when I manually toggle airplane mode it turns off all radios and I cannt reactivate wifi (even manually in settings). Any fix for this?
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Just got the new nexus 4 and I'm trying to set it up like my galaxy nexus. I have tmobile's $30 / month plan and use sipdroid at home to make wifi calls so as not to go into my 100 minutes.
It seems like auto AP does not work on the nexus 4. In addition, when I manually toggle airplane mode it turns off all radios and I cannt reactivate wifi (even manually in settings). Any fix for this?
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You do know the point of airplane mode, right? It disables EVERYTHING.
If you want ONLY wifi, disable data in your phone settings. In 2.3.6 (N4 today!) it's wireless and network settings, mobile networks, uncheck "data enabled"
You could also get a toggle app like widgetsoid and disable background data sync, or settings, accounts and sync settings, uncheck background data and auto-sync.
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You do know the point of airplane mode, right? It disables EVERYTHING.
If you want ONLY wifi, disable data in your phone settings. In 2.3.6 (N4 today!) it's wireless and network settings, mobile networks, uncheck "data enabled"
You could also get a toggle app like widgetsoid and disable background data sync, or settings, accounts and sync settings, uncheck background data and auto-sync.
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Right but on my galaxy nexus I could enable airplane mode turning off everything, then turn on wifi. All I'm looking to do is disable the cell connection whenever I'm connected to wifi.
This happens on my Nexus 4 as well. I had my Nexus S setup this way as well. I use CSipSimple + PBX account, etc. Anyways, Airplane mode constantly disables WiFi, no matter what. And yes the app AutoAP doesn't work either.
I have found this app, Airplane Mode Wi-Fi Tool, funny that it was made for Android versions prior to 2.0.
The actual app doesn't seem to work (to enable/disable airplane mode and WiFi), but within the app lies a nifty feature in the Preferences menu under Extras:
Keep Wi-fi On
Wi-fi on Airplane Mode
Check both of those and you should be able to turn Airplane mode on and then keep WiFi on.
Cheers.
I wrote this a while back: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29219003
You can try to see if those apps work.
AutoAir for automatically toggling airplane mode when connected to wifi (doesn't check if there's an actual connection to the Internet though. don't know if your app does)
Plane Mode Tweaker for allowing wifi and bt to be usable in airplane mode. It can also make it so wifi/bt don't get disabled upon entering airplane mode if they were enabled previously.
Y5 for automatically toggling wifi on when in range and off when away. Since it determines location by logging the cell towers you're connected to, the phone should not be in airplane mode initially. Walk around the house and anywhere you have wifi since you may be in range of multiple cell towers. It's best to leave the radio on for a few days so it can learn all the towers. After that, it works very well.
With that battery of apps, everything becomes pretty seamless. I have it set to always use Google Voice. This way, I don't have any additional prompts when using the native dialer, and the other party sees my GV#. When I go home, Y5 turns wifi on, AutoAir sees wifi and enables airplane mode, and Plane Mode Tweaker prevents wifi from being taken down again. The native dialer will automatically trigger Sipdroid, and again the recipient sees my GV#. Leave home and lose wifi and airplane mode is disabled, then wifi gets disabled. Seamless. Only problem is calls won't handoff between sipdroid and cell obviously.
I'm kind of assuming the apps may be calling the same functions/methods/whathaveyou and it may not work either.
Much like the iPhone, WiFi calling only works when your cell signal is low. Is there any way to force it to always use WiFi calling regardless of cell signal? The only way I found is to put the phone into Airplane Mode, and turn wifi back on. I would rather not have to do that because I have already forgotten to turn the cell back on when I leave my house lol.
Thanks.
Without root, an automated way to do this (like with Tasker or Macrodroid) doesn't seem possible because 3rd party apps cannot change or set Airplane mode.
However, you could set up an automated task to remind you when the detection status of any chosen wifi SSIDS changes, so you wouldn't forget to change your settings when entering or leaving a specific wifi area.
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