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.
:wink:
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
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.
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
not the backlight
help
when on battery power my device goes to sleep after 15 seconds ,when you press on/off button (wake up button) it comes back to the screen i was using apart from when using google maps or copilot i have changed settings in (settings-backlight) but it still happens i dont think it anything to do with the back light. It never use to it, do i need to change a registry setting
sleepy machine screen (HELP)
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not the backlight
help
when on battery power my device goes to sleep after 15 seconds (screen goes off) ,when you press on/off button (wake up button) it comes back to the screen i was using apart from when using google maps or copilot i have changed settings in (settings-backlight) but it still happens i dont think it anything to do with the back light. It never use to it, do i need to change a registry setting
mail me which ROM have you got..
not the backlight
help
when on battery power my device goes to sleep after 15 seconds (screen goes off) ,when you press on/off button (wake up button) it comes back to the screen i was using apart from when using google maps or copilot i have changed settings in (settings-backlight) but it still happens i dont think it anything to do with the back light. It never use to it, do i need to change a registry setting