Hi I know this seems a very silly question, however after reating the manual and try after try I cannot manage to turn off the XDA.
The manual reads, press and hold the power button (top left). When I do this the backlight of the XDA turns off but the handset is still active and will still accept incoming calls.
How stupit am I, but how the hell to do switch this device off?
Go on have a good laugh but I am getting :twisted: .
Cheers guys
Matt
AT the top of the screen there is a signal meter, just click that and you will be offered the option to turn off the radio, also in profiles you can select flight mode this will turn off the radio then you just press the power button to turn off the xda.
Don't keep the button pressed.
Just press and release, can take a few seconds before it switches off.
XDAII has two functions: PDA and phone.
To switch off phone: Click on signal icon at the top of Today screen. Click "Turn Wireless off" or in some version click "Turn Flight Mode On"
To switch off PDA: Press the power button on top of your XDAII. Press and release, wait a few secs, your XDAII will switch off. If you press the power button and hold, only the backlight brightness will 'turned off'.
To switch both PDA and phone, switch off phone first, then PDA.
Hope that helps.
Cheers guys worked great.
All the best
Matt
speed?!?
When I choose to either switch wireless off or to open the ultra profiler it takes a couple of minutes to do. Is my XDA2 unusually slow or is that just the speed of the machine?!? :? I am getting so frustrated with the sloooooowness of it :evil:
the XDAII gets well slow!!!
can take bout 1 minute to turn my wireless off!
btw. if you want to turn off the GPRS but not the phone (to save battery life) hold down the red "end call" button on the case for 5 secs.
nice1
Dear friend,
how do I do to put OFF completely my magician XDAmini?
Best regards
Daniele
Take the battery out?
And pushing the power button?
The power button can only put the phone is Standby. In PDA phones there is no such thing as OFF. The RAM needs power all the time. Sliding the battery cover in and out will also power off the device. Don't leave that long though, otherwise you risk losing all the information.
Hello,
I'm new so plz be patient. Ok, pressing the power button only allows us to set the device in standby mode. How do I turn off the phone (gsm) mode then? The idea is just that I want to figure out a way to reduce the power consumption as much as possible.
Thx for all coming answers..
To turn the phone itself off click on the signal strength indicator then click on 'Turn on flight mode'
This turns off the phone part of the device but leaves the pda side still functional
HTH
Alrite. But is there a way to accomplish that task with hardware buttons? Guess not, ey?
Just don't wanna pull out my stylus that often.. *g*
Press and hold the power button for several seconds. this will actually turn the device OFF.
Do the same to turn it back on.
pnharrison said:
Press and hold the power button for several seconds. this will actually turn the device OFF.
Do the same to turn it back on.
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This is not true. When you do that, the background light will be off, but the phone is still working.
moses3k said:
Alrite. But is there a way to accomplish that task with hardware buttons? Guess not, ey?
Just don't wanna pull out my stylus that often.. *g*
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You could install PocketZenPhone from here: http://zendrui.free.fr/ and then, as long as your fingers are not too fat, you can press an icon on the today screen. 8)
Cool, thx for this hint.
moses3k said:
Hello,
I'm new so plz be patient. Ok, pressing the power button only allows us to set the device in standby mode. How do I turn off the phone (gsm) mode then? The idea is just that I want to figure out a way to reduce the power consumption as much as possible.
Thx for all coming answers..
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I don't think that the GPRS is using that much power, but to turn it off, hold the RED Phone button down for several seconds (I never timed it, I just wait for the "GPRS Connected" icon to disappear.
Your best bet for power consumption is to lower the screen brightness to it's lowest level, and set the screen backlight to go off at 30 seconds, and lastly to set the device to power down at 1 minute of inactivity.
copy this app to your magician, in a folder you want. Bind it to a hard button or make a shortcut on your Todayscreen with SPB Pocket PLus or another program.
PocketZenPhone (the tray version of it) can also be used to set the profiles via hardware buttons. This can be done with making shortcuts to the .exe with setting the specific profile. I'm using this together with MortButtons to switch between my profiles of PocketZenPhone.
Yzord said:
pnharrison said:
Press and hold the power button for several seconds. this will actually turn the device OFF.
Do the same to turn it back on.
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This is not true. When you do that, the background light will be off, but the phone is still working.
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Yzord; no it really does work (did you try it ?)
Yes, pressing the power button briefly just turns the screen off ; I think we all know that.
However holding the button down for several seconds will allow you to turn it off completely. = power off; no applications running; no phone or other network connections; zero power consumption, nada.
PH
the best way to stop using magician:
charge battery to 50%
do a backup
pull out battery
pack you magician
several years later
get it out
put in battery
do a restore
charge and use it
(maybe 5% drop one year, so can put aside ten years
pnharrison said:
Yzord said:
pnharrison said:
Press and hold the power button for several seconds. this will actually turn the device OFF.
Do the same to turn it back on.
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This is not true. When you do that, the background light will be off, but the phone is still working.
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Yzord; no it really does work (did you try it ?)
Yes, pressing the power button briefly just turns the screen off ; I think we all know that.
However holding the button down for several seconds will allow you to turn it off completely. = power off; no applications running; no phone or other network connections; zero power consumption, nada.
PH
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It will still lose some power in keeping the RAM filled, if it loses all power (goes very slowly however), all your installed programs and data will be lost. It takes a long time, but it still uses power to keep the RAM chips powered and the clock correct. Furtheremore, with the Magician it keeps the phone and alarms awake, so you can receive calls. You have to turn on flight mode manually to turn the radio off. Also you have to turn off all alarms to prevent your device from waking up. Your method is more like the one used on the Wizard, where holding the power button for 5 seconds really turns everything off and when pressing and holding again makes the Wizard start up again (with boot screen and all).
cucchiarellid said:
Dear friend,
how do I do to put OFF completely my magician XDAmini?
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Also thought of this when I first got my xda mini. Now, after some reading here in the forums, I just switched my xda mini to flight mode before I go to sleep. It turns off the phone. Hope this helps.
Is there a proper way to switch the phone off like a pc or do you just keep the button on the top pressed and then click yes when it asks if you want to switch it off.
The only reason I ask is that I wondered if you can put the phone in stand by etc...
I'm pretty sure that's how you turn the phone off. If you just press (tap) the power button for like a second , then it goes into standby / sleep mode.
Sony Xperia X1 said:
I'm pretty sure that's how you turn the phone off. If you just press (tap) the power button for like a second , then it goes into standby / sleep mode.
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Yeah that is all I have been doing, but just when it comes up with the warning I thought maybe it was just like pressing the power button on a PC... Cheers
a normal press of the power button: suspend/sleep - all programs except GSM services and some core services (e.g. event service) are suspended.
a press and hold of the power button: a complete power off. Device is not operating at all. Incoming Phone call, alarm or appointment notification will not happen.
I don't usually lock my phone when it's on standby. I usually just turn off the screen to save battery. I do that by pressing the red power button. Just wondering if there's an app that I can use to turn off the screen instead of pressing the button all the time?
Thanks.
simeezee said:
I don't usually lock my phone when it's on standby. I usually just turn off the screen to save battery. I do that by pressing the red power button. Just wondering if there's an app that I can use to turn off the screen instead of pressing the button all the time?
Thanks.
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Power option, you can set a time for the screen to go off.
So I think there might be something wrong with the power button, when it does work it has a 5 second lag between pressing it and when the lock screen pops up. However, there have been several times where I'm going to bring it out of sleep mode and it doesn't wake up - so I press and hold the power button for a few seconds and nothing. When I press it again it vibrates and boots up normally. So what I think is happening is I'm actually turning it off, thinking that it's having issues with the SOD, and then turning it back on again. But no matter how many times I just simply press the power button it still won't bring up the lock screen out of sleep. So is there some way I can turn it on via the volume rocker?
Thanks in advanced.
AliceInUnderland said:
So I think there might be something wrong with the power button, when it does work it has a 5 second lag between pressing it and when the lock screen pops up. However, there have been several times where I'm going to bring it out of sleep mode and it doesn't wake up - so I press and hold the power button for a few seconds and nothing. When I press it again it vibrates and boots up normally. So what I think is happening is I'm actually turning it off, thinking that it's having issues with the SOD, and then turning it back on again. But no matter how many times I just simply press the power button it still won't bring up the lock screen out of sleep. So is there some way I can turn it on via the volume rocker?
Thanks in advanced.
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That is the sleep of death. No on the volume without special programming.
Well, the only thing that made me think it was otherwise was the battery stats - it shows that the tablet has been awake the whole time it's been in SOD...
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Well, the only thing that made me think it was otherwise was the battery stats - it shows that the tablet has been awake the whole time it's been in SOD...
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That is what I have found, it is still running. That is why you have to monkey with the power button, the first long press shuts it off even tho it looks to be off. After it is shut down, then it will turn back on. Their are some ics roms that this is fixed in. I used to have the sod, but the rom I am using don't have that problem and I have had that problem with all roms, sept ics.