Embarassing........

[D7egm]

I have only just got my MDA a few weeks ago & can't understand why I have missed out on such a cool tool for so long!

That aside, I was flying out of the UK this week and when I was sitting in my seat, I remembered I had to turn my phone off. Racking my brains (only having glanced at the manual for a few seconds.....I wanted to play with my phone!) I remebered something about pressing and holding the power button.......I pushed the power button for 2 seconds.......and the screen went off/ into sleep..........I tried it again & no joy.........how do I turn the fu :twisted: :evil: ing this off?

I ended up ripping the back off and taking out the battery :oops:

Is there a must be a more sophisticated way of not causing a 'plane to crash?

[kha]

Tap to the radio icon (signal strength) and tap "Turn on flight mode" :-)

[D7egm]

Wonderful, thank you!

This makes it 'airplane safe', but I take it there is no way it can be 'turned off' as opposed to put into sleep mode?

[Loboman]

Sleep mode is the furthest you'll make it go.

[bamse]

I have only just got my MDA a few weeks ago & can't understand why I have missed out on such a cool tool for so long!

That aside, I was flying out of the UK this week and when I was sitting in my seat, I remembered I had to turn my phone off. Racking my brains (only having glanced at the manual for a few seconds.....I wanted to play with my phone!) I remebered something about pressing and holding the power button.......I pushed the power button for 2 seconds.......and the screen went off/ into sleep..........I tried it again & no joy.........how do I turn the fu :twisted: :evil: ing this off?

I ended up ripping the back off and taking out the battery :oops:

Is there a must be a more sophisticated way of not causing a 'plane to crash?

Pushing the power button for 2 seconds will turn the backlight off, pushing it again for 2 seconds will turn backlight on again. With backlight off the device looks like it is off, not like some other devices where you have some kind of transreflective screen that can be used without backlight.

I think what happened to you (it has happened to me a couple of times) was:
1. Pressing power button 2 secs - turning off backlight.
2. Pressing power button shortly - going to sleep mode.
3. Pressing power button 2 secs - nothing happens.
4. Pressing power button shortly - going out of sleep, backlight still off.

The only way to wake the backlight up again is to find a strong light source to find out if the device is in sleep mode or with the backlight off. If it is in sleep mode you need to press the power button shortly to get out of it before you press power again for 2 secs to get the backlight back.

[1471]

If only those idiots who wrote the manual hadn't got the most basic thing wrong, we wouldn't have to go through all this time and time again!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17085&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=


:twisted:

[D7egm]

:oops:

I'm sorry I asked now.........this is much more embarassing than having to rip the battery out!

[1471]

Hey, don't worry about it. It's always easy when you know how. I just find it funny that they couldn't even get the on/off instructions right in the manual, and that some people insist that their way is the only way.:lol:
Imagine the hoo-hah if Ford and GM got their handbooks that wrong! :shock:

[bamse]

:oops:

I'm sorry I asked now.........this is much more embarassing than having to rip the battery out!

There is no such thing as a stupid question. The first time it happened to me I thought the little bugger had died on me!