Hello everyone,
Can somebody tell me if the following phone behaviour is normal ?
When Wi-Fi is working and you press the power button (just press, not hold) , the screen backlight switches off (power saving option). But once it's off, Wi-Fi turns off as well. When you switch the screen on, Wi-Fi authomatically turns on as well.
The same scenario takes place when the screen backlight switches off on its own (power saving option).
The downside is that, when a large file is downloaded from the internet and the display power saving option is set to a short period of time, it's impossible to download the file. The same with e.g. Skype. When making a call, you might want to switch backlight off using the power button but you drop the connection at the same time.
If this behaviour is normal, how to force Wi-Fi to be on all the time?
Is there any registry that does the job?
Thanks,
RZ
Powersaving IS power saving and considering Wi-Fi is considered heavy-battery-usage it would be unlogical not turning it off. I doubt it's easy to keep it on, sorry
KaiserTweak has a setting to let you keep wifi on even if you go on power save mode (i used it on my kaiser).
But don't thinky o should try KaiserTweak as I read somewhere on this forum it can hard reset your polaris!
Maybe that program can be modified for Polaris s by someone.
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Hello
How does ont turn off the XDA EXEC, i dont see any off button. the power button just turns the screen backlight on and off.
the reason why i wanted to know what it was is because i am porting my number across networks, and 02 told me to turn off my phone a number of times during the day, so that it could go into a boot up process.
There is no real way to trurn the device off, but what they will be wanting you to do is disable the phone section (do this by turning on flight mode, or by clicking on the green connections manager in the bottom and click on the phone button. Click the phone button again to turn it on.)
Start -> Programs - Wireless Manager -> All Off (This switches of the phone.
Then use the phone on/off button at the top of the screen there, to switch it back on and force your SIM to re-register with the network, which should have the desired effect your after.
Taking out the battery is the only real 'off' button.
thanks for the replies dudes
did you try holding the power button as well? that works on my wizard
not sure if it's true for all wm5 though
i held the power down button for some time and it blanked teh screen. when i held the power button again for a few seconds the screen came back to life, but this time there is no "back light(?)"
how do i get back the "back light(?)"
i held the power down button for some time and it blanked teh screen. when i held the power button again for a few seconds the screen came back to life, but this time there is no "back light(?)"
how do i get back the "back light(?)"
There remains a bug, it seems, that sometimes prevents the backlight from firing up when starting the device.
It used to happen on my XDA2i and still happens on my Exec.
I usually have to get it in a good light and go to settings and move the brightness slider to get it working.
Turning off the device, I find, is actually achieved by pressing the power switch before closing lid.
I find I get much more out of each charge if I do this rather than just close the lid.
That of course turns of the PDA functionality of the device. The radio (phone) service is still disabled via Flight Mode.
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somehow i double posted...sry
thanks for the reply
i guess by pressing the power button, the pda goes ito some sort of sleep mode, since it does not boot up later, correct?
when it is charging up using a usb cable connected to my pc, the backlight is turned of, and no amount of pressing buttons seems to turn on the backlight, is that correct?
i checked out the brightness level sliders, there are 2, the
1. on battery which is somewhere in between
2. on power which is "slided" to the left, is that its correct position?
you will probably find it will selfboot at midnight.. this appears to have been intentional in the design of all the XDA's.
Thia can be a nuisance but it is probably to do with reseting timers. alarms etc
The backlight is configured to be on/off during external power and on battery in which ever setup you choose.
The actual levels you set it at are your choice ..
I set mine to be off after 5 mins on external power i.e. when charging except when i use tomtom and want it to stay on whilst externally powered.
On these occasions I change the setting before the journey
Your original question with reference to O2 making changes that required you phone to be off, in my experience, means not having the O2 sim in the device.
thanks for the reply dude
i think my questions have exceeded the remit of this thread. i will start another thread for the backlight questions
Howdy
I have noticed that turning off the screen (either via an app or by a brief press of the power button) also kills any Wifi connections that are active. Is there any way around this? Thanks.
Pressing the power button put the device to sleep/standby/suspend mode. Its not just Wifi, even the Bluetooth, GPS and everything but the phone part goes 'off' to save power. But why do you need WiFi to be active when in StandBy mode?
Regards,
Carty..
are you sure that you are toggling the screen and not turning off the device compleatly?
all pda's i've had turn off when i press the powerbutton
but there are programs which toggle the screen and dont stop my
music from playing
Carty said:
But why do you need WiFi to be active when in StandBy mode?
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Because I have VoIP set up and if the phone goes in to standby, it will still accept incoming normal calls, but not VoIP calls.
Rudegar said:
are you sure that you are toggling the screen and not turning off the device compleatly?
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It's not powering the device off completely, a longer push of the power button is needed for that.
But, I had a setting in "Power" enabled, which would "Turn off the device" if it wasn't used for a period of time, and this was also killing Wifi when it was triggered.
Audio manager for ppc has resolved this problem. As far as i know its the only one that doesn't stop even if you press the power button. it keeps playing in background. Maybe someone can understand how they did it and post it. I also want my wifi no to be turned off when i press the power button since it doesn't reconnect to my access point. i have to do it manually
Regards
theres a way to turn off the screen, alot of the roms here have it in the shortcut folder.... and it doesnt kill stop anything like wifi bluetooth or WMP....
Since you know it why don't you mention it
Adi_T said:
Audio manager for ppc has resolved this problem. As far as i know its the only one that doesn't stop even if you press the power button. it keeps playing in background. Maybe someone can understand how they did it and post it. I also want my wifi no to be turned off when i press the power button since it doesn't reconnect to my access point. i have to do it manually
Regards
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I myself won't be leaving Wifi turned on now. I did some tests re battery life and found battery drain was just too severe if Wifi was left on permanently.
funkadesi said:
theres a way to turn off the screen, alot of the roms here have it in the shortcut folder.... and it doesnt kill stop anything like wifi bluetooth or WMP....
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I tried this, and in the ROM i'm using it did kill Wifi as well. Oh well
yeah i feel you . the thing is, sometimes i download some mp3's over my WIZARD , and even if i don't the putton of the powering off, after a mintue ( depending on my power setting ) the device is switched off and WIFI is killed !
is there any cab to keep WIFI alive even tho the power button is get pressed ?
Hello, I have a XDA Mini-S which I have had to do a reset on. Before the reset it would go automatically into sleep-mode after a period of time, I do mean sleep not screen off, and to wake it the power button had to be pressed but it would still receive calls. Now all I can get is screen off mode, the settings being in the power settings, and to switch the screen on all you have to do is tap the screen. I do know the sleep mode can be entered manually by pressing the power button once.
Can anyone tell me how to get this auto-sleep mode to work again please?
Thanks, Guy.
setting->system->power->advacned check on battery power checkbox turn off device if not used for pick nr of minuts in the dropdownbox thats what the rest of us do
Cheers, that's excellent. Why on earth don't they mention that in the manual? When I read that section, I assumed it ment you had to enter a password every time the divice went into sleep mode, and that would be a real pain!
I am looking for a stand-alone application which will toggle the screen and backlight which I can link to one of the buttons on my M700
Background: I am using the GPS for tracking on my phone. When I turn on the GPS & Logging I then turn the screen off using a short-cut from Pocket Power Manager.
Normally I would have to use the power button on the phone to bring the screen back BUT this disconnects the GPS so screws up and logs I am writing so looking to find an app which will purely turn the screen on (using remote control apps i can see with the screen off everything is still running there as normal)
have you tried holding the power button for 2-3 seconds?
in my htc universal it toggles the backlight off & back on again, without going into standby.
Mine doesn't seem to do that. Well it turns the screen back on but it also disconnects the GPS at the same time.
Hi,
In lock mode backlight stays on albeit on a lower level, but still. This causes problems like:
1. it uses valuable battery power
2. maybe even more important: it is too much light in my bedroom (need a good rest).
Furthermore: the best mobile ever will be gratefull if we don't use the power button for switching backlight on/off, showing this by a longer button live.
The best solution would of course be if when locking/unlocking the phone the backlight would go completely off/on.
I can't find this combination of functions (un)locking + backlight (on)off on the forum. Any genius ideas?
Thanks