Hi there,
This is probably a daft question, but how do I completely turn off the device? At the moment if I press the silver power button; it just turns off the backlight the way it does if you close the lid. It's not THAT much of a problem, just a huge drain on battery power.
Any ideas would be great,
Ta
You can't turn the device off completely like a regular phone. If you press the silver button once quick it will put the device into low power standby mode. The backlight AND screen should turn off. If you hold the silver button for longer only the backlight will go off which is different.
There are also a number of power saving options in the settings which will determine how long the backlight is turned off and how long the device will go into standby automatically.
This is a small tip for those who owns the Asus EEE Pad Transformer and bought it together with the keyboard dock – there is a simple way to wake up your EEE Pad Transformer from sleep mode (when the screen is turned off from a display timeout) without pressing the power button. To do this, you can just disable the option “mobiledock battery saving mode” in the settings -> display section and that’s it. Now when the screen timeout goes into effect, you can press more or less any key (try spacebar for instance) to wake the transformer up from sleep mode. Do take note that this will however drain the battery more quickly but it is useful if you’re the type of person who goes back and forth your Android Netbook Hybrid often (like myself). Alternatively, you could always get “Screen On Toggler” from the Android Market to disable the screen timeout temporarily and then reenable the timeout when you’re done working. Hope this tip helps
Note: This will not work while your transformer is charging via the keyboard. It works only when your transformer is connected to the keyboard dock AND not charging (i.e: running purely on battery)
Source: Nexus One World
Kinda silly, that's what the unlock button the dock does too, you don't need to press the power button on the pad....
darkonex said:
Kinda silly, that's what the unlock button the dock does too, you don't need to press the power button on the pad....
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you dont need to press the power button only if you have disabled the “mobiledock battery saving mode” in the settings -> display section. If you did not disable it, you wont be able to unlock with the unlock button on the dock. Also when your dock is being charged pressing the unlock button on the dock wont' do a thing, you still have to press the power button on the tablet to show the lockscreen.
It's old news that if the power saving feature is off you can unlock with any button on the keyboard. I wouldn't give up sleep mode for dock just to unlock it w/o pressing the power button though. The dock doesn't sleep the instant the screen is off, takes another minute or so, in this time you can press unlock button to unlock again. If you left the tablet for a long time, I don't see the difference between reaching for the power button and pressing a button.
frosty5689 said:
It's old news that if the power saving feature is off you can unlock with any button on the keyboard. I wouldn't give up sleep mode for dock just to unlock it w/o pressing the power button though. The dock doesn't sleep the instant the screen is off, takes another minute or so, in this time you can press unlock button to unlock again. If you left the tablet for a long time, I don't see the difference between reaching for the power button and pressing a button.
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Well actually there might be a difference, depending on how durable the power button is if you get my drift
The unlock button does unlock it for me with dock power saving on.
Unlock key works.
But it is nice to be able to use other keys.
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The unlock button does unlock it for me with dock power saving on.
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It does work if you just locked it, but after about 5 minutes or so you wont be able to unlock it with the unlock key if you leave the mobile dock battery saving setting enabled.
anyone else disable their lock screen? seems totally pointless to me, the tf's not going to turn itself on in my pocket - it cant fit in my pocket
It doesn't matter whether I turn the option on or off (and it seems no matter how long I leave it in the sleep mode); multiple taps on any key will always wake the pad up!
Does the mobiledock battery saving mode work for anyone? No matter how many times I toggle the mobiledock battery saving mode, it always will wake up when the keyboard is attached, and the battery drain is waaay higher. I've resorted to not leaving the two connected when idle, which is stupid, but at least I don't lose 50% of the dock battery as it idles while I'm at work.
effwun said:
Does the mobiledock battery saving mode work for anyone? No matter how many times I toggle the mobiledock battery saving mode, it always will wake up when the keyboard is attached, and the battery drain is waaay higher. I've resorted to not leaving the two connected when idle, which is stupid, but at least I don't lose 50% of the dock battery as it idles while I'm at work.
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Same issue here. The dock always wakes the tablet and my dock battery drains as if it is always on. I didn't know that if you disconnect it, the battery will drain slower. Good to know.
effwun said:
Does the mobiledock battery saving mode work for anyone? No matter how many times I toggle the mobiledock battery saving mode, it always will wake up when the keyboard is attached, and the battery drain is waaay higher. I've resorted to not leaving the two connected when idle, which is stupid, but at least I don't lose 50% of the dock battery as it idles while I'm at work.
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I've had the opposite experience.
In fact, I didn't know about the battery saving mode and I was starting to get really pissed off that my unlock key wasn't working.
No keys were working to wake it up and I was forced to use the power button (I know, what a hard life right!)
I leave the two connected all day and battery life is incredibly good.
I disabled the battery saver thing because I was hoping to solve an SD card issue I had where, upon waking after sleep (had to use power button) I would get that "preparing external sd card" message everytime but occasionally my files wouldn't show up.
And, since this is where my roms are kept, I get grumpy!
I haven't used it enough to see if I still get the SD card problem yet though.
So far from what I noticed at least on my unit of transformer+dock is that the battery in the dock lasts longer if the mobile docking battery saving mode is enabled but this prevents me from unlocking the tablet using any keys on the keyboard dock which i feel is a bigger disadvantage, so i decided to disable the option
I like to squeeze my Transformer's nose shut while it's sleeping to wake it up.
I always thought I was crazy but I have the same problem. Regardless if it's checked or not, I can wake up my TF with any key.
Hi Everyone,
I recently got a Surface Pro. It has one really annoying limitation that seems to belie the whole 'tablet' aspect of the laptop/tablet hybrid theme. Pressing the power button while the computer is awake puts it to sleep rather than simply turning the display off. It doesn't look like Microsoft has included any functionality for simply turning the display off. Unless you wait for it to turn off by itself, you can't use the power button to turn off the display without also putting the computer to sleep. I was able to get around this somewhat by downloading a freeware utility that lets you turn the display off with a custom keystroke (Monitor Off), but I would really like to be able to just turn off the display using the power button instead of having to put it to sleep every time.
One option that Microsoft does include in the power management settings is the option to make the power button do nothing. If I select that option, then nothing happens when I push the power button. My thinking is that combining that option with an app or a hack that re-maps the power button to the keystroke I set in Monitor Off would probably do the trick. Does anyone know of such an app or hack?
I disabled my lockscreen and instead changed the button mapping to only turn on the screen when I double press and hold either power or home with Xposed Additions, which works perfect (Home button sometimes doesn't wake, power does). Problem though is this damn annoying battery warning keep on waking my phone.
Anybody know a method to disable it that still works on Android 6.0 Touchwiz?
I have a J5 2016 and I recently upgraded from Android 6 Marshmallow to Android 7 Nougat. On the Marshmallow when I was turning on the power saving mode on the status bar appeared an icon for power saving ON THE LEFT of the status bar. Now in Nougat when I turn on the power saving mode the icon for power saving appears BUT ON THE RIGHT near the signal icon.
Anybody know some app or anything to move the icon for power saving mode from right to left?
PS: I have unlocked bootloader, rooted phone, custom rom so I'm willing to try anything.