I've noticed that every time the phone enters power safe mode, there is a problem after that.
Next morning after the phone is charged, ALL settings regarding power safe mode are still in effect (wireless is disabled, brightness is at the lowest, etc)
In my opinion, once the phone is fully charged , those power safe settings should be reverted to their original state, BEFORE they were activated.
Because they do NOT revert, and you have to manually put them back the way you want (and how they were before power safe is activated) is a poor design.
Is there a solution to this problem, so they automatically revert once power safe is deactivated?
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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
I have WM6, but i have noticed, i can't power off the Jasjar unless i pull the battery.
If i hold the power button it turns the screen off but the unit is still on, have downloaded psShutXP and this does the same.
Am I doing something wrong or missing something, when flying you can't have the unit on, even if flight mode is activated.
Checked and searched everywhere for software etc to try resolve this but no luck!!!
Can anybody help please
Tks
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Hi there,
You correctly turn of the screen with the powerbutton. Thing is, you do not want to power it down. Because powering the unit down might cause loss of data (when you turn it on you will get a blank device). The rom is powered by the battery.
So, flightmode is sufficient for flying an airplane. All you need to proove is that all receivers and transmitters are turned off. (phone, bt, wlan).
Should you really need to power it off anyway, i´ve found no other way but to remove and reinsert the battery.
good luck
daniel
pressing the power button briefly, turns the phone onto standby mode.
pressing and holding the power button, turns off the display backlight only.
setting the phone on Flight mode, shuts off all radio activity, and is sufficient for inflight usage.
there really is no good reason why you'd wanna switch off the phone completely, but if you insist, then as you expected.. pulling the battery out is the only way for now.
i wouldn't do it anyway, as it might lead to data corruption and other issues (kinda like if you pull the battery out of your laptop while it's on standby/power saving)
You cannot completely turn off the device.. it is part of the design.
What you want to do is not a good idea. No developer even bothered figuring out how to do it, due to the mentioned side effects of losing data.. hence there is no app that can do that.
maybe when time comes, developers may come up with a hibernate mode -- saving data into the sd card
DaVince said:
You cannot completely turn off the device.. it is part of the design.
What you want to do is not a good idea. No developer even bothered figuring out how to do it, due to the mentioned side effects of losing data.. hence there is no app that can do that.
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With devices like the Universal (and most other WM5 & WM6 devices), pulling the battery won't cause you to lose data - it just acts as a soft-reset. (Although older devices, eg the Alpine, if the backup battery died as well then you'd have a hard reset)
If you are going on a flight just set it in flight mode, and turn off the volume, then put it in its "off" mode (ie hit power). This should be enough for most airlines. If you are really worried, then just close all the programs running and drop the battery
Well, didn't expected a huge response.
Thank you all for your feedback and info. I had a Jamin before and you could turn that off with no data loss, therefore thought the Jasjar could do it as well.
I just thought it was my unit since i loaded WM6 onto it, but it iseems to be the norm.
Will live with that, bit annoying having to pull the battery thou to turn the device off.
Thanks
Has anyone else notice that their M8 is noticeably less responsive when the battery gets low (usually under 15%)? I am aware that the Verizon model does not have the extreme power saving mode feature; however, I noticed something funny. When the battery is low and I go into developer options to turn on high performance mode, it lets me know that I cannot due to power saver being on (see screenshot). When the phone's battery is not low, I do not see this message and I can enable high performance mode. My guess is that the phone is entering some sort of power saving mode automatically when the battery gets low because I notice that it lasts quite long on low battery and is less snappy.
Fast start to finish here. But I'm running custom so.
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Can anyone else on stock replicate this issue or did I just get a defective M8? Thanks!
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Can anyone else on stock replicate this issue or did I just get a defective M8? Thanks!
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It honestly sounds like power saving mode is kicking in. Which does at 15% on stock if power saving mode is enabled ( not extreme power saving mode just the standard one)
If something weird is going on and it is not providing you with a notification that it is what's happening, next time it happens look at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/scaling_max_freq if it's at 2265600 then it's not in power saving mode, however if it's at 1190400 then power saver is on. Other signs of power saving mode would "normally" be
Display brightness reduced
Cpu reduced speeds
Vibration feedback turned off
*data connection put to sleep when screen off
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Turned my power saving mode on and I also can not turn on high performance mode. So I bet that is EXACTLY what's going on.
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if you have root you can launch the power saving settings ( even tho the option is not there under the power sub menu vzw left all the code in)
to do this from terminal emulator at # am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.htc.htcpowermanager/com.htc.htcpowermanager.powersaver.PowerSaverActivity
this will launch the settings for power saving mode, and from here you can see if it is set to on, if so just turn it back off.
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runandhide05 said:
It honestly sounds like power saving mode is kicking in. Which does at 15% on stock if power saving mode is enabled ( not extreme power saving mode just the standard one)
If something weird is going on and it is not providing you with a notification that it is what's happening, next time it happens look at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/scaling_max_freq if it's at 2265600 then it's not in power saving mode, however if it's at 1190400 then power saver is on. Other signs of power saving mode would "normally" be
Display brightness reduced
Cpu reduced speeds
Vibration feedback turned off
*data connection put to sleep when screen off
Edit:
Turned my power saving mode on and I also can not turn on high performance mode. So I bet that is EXACTLY what's going on.
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if you have root you can launch the power saving settings ( even tho the option is not there under the power sub menu vzw left all the code in)
to do this from terminal emulator at # am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.htc.htcpowermanager/com.htc.htcpowermanager.powersaver.PowerSaverActivity
this will launch the settings for power saving mode, and from here you can see if it is set to on, if so just turn it back off.
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Thanks for the reply, I agree with you on that one, I'm pretty sure power saving mode is being turned on somehow. I'm not rooted and on stock, so I don't have a toggle for power saver mode. Any idea how it could have turned itself on? Aside from rooting, is there anything short of a factory reset that I can do to get rid of it?
koolaid159357 said:
Thanks for the reply, I agree with you on that one, I'm pretty sure power saving mode is being turned on somehow. I'm not rooted and on stock, so I don't have a toggle for power saver mode. Any idea how it could have turned itself on? Aside from rooting, is there anything short of a factory reset that I can do to get rid of it?
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Well I would first ask if any of the things I said happen when you phone goes below 15% such as
Display brightness reduced
Cpu reduced speeds
Vibration feedback turned off
*data connection put to sleep when screen off
Some of these you can check without root. Like the screen gets dim or the vibration turns off. If so then let me know.
Theoretically a factory reset would clear it. However you could try to clear data from the settings app.
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+1 on Power Save coming on.....I am on Viper so I see it is turned on at 15% with the quick settings, so I tap it to turn it off (which I know there isn't a stock equivalent)....but when it is on...the phone slows like a turd.
I have power save mode powered on at 20%. It works, but now i recharged my phone back too 100% and is seems that the power save mode is still on.
All the things that will stop working (ringer, brightness) are still deactivated at 100%. Even with power save mode OFF it wont go back.
Is this a issue or am i doing something wrong?
I'm using my tablet as a car navigation device. I may leave my car parked for up to a week sometimes.
Ideally, I'd like to turn the device off when I stop my car (cable unplugged or screen off) and then turn the device on when I start my car (cable plug in, screen on). Since it takes a while to boot up (and I don't know how to autoboot when the cable is plugged in on a LG g pad 8.0), I don't want to actually turn off the tablet.
Therefore, I have installed "Automate" to enable airplane mode when screen is off and turn off airplane mode when screen is on. I also have Greenify and enabled Aggressive Doze. However, even doing this, I notice that while the screen is off, the phone will still come out of doze periodically. Also eventhough airplane mode is on, Gsam Battery stats show the phone radio is on the entire time (but not data).
Is there a way to force it to doze and not wake up until I tell it to?
Also, for some reason, as it keeps going into airplane mode and back out, I will get a message saying the sim card has been removed and it will force me to reboot. If I don't go into airplane mode at all, I dont get the message. It's only from switching it on and off.