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macxi
20-02-2006, 04:17 PM
Hi , i have a problem with my mda compact , the phone don't turn off.
Please can some one tell me how resolving this problem
Thanks, Macxi
27
20-02-2006, 10:34 PM
Turn on flight mode.

Look in the manual.
macxi
21-02-2006, 01:57 PM
Turn on flight mode.

Look in the manual.

Thank you i don't have manual
27
21-02-2006, 02:09 PM
Thank you i don't have manual

Turn it on flight mode.
Click on the telephone signal bars.
thormdac
21-02-2006, 02:46 PM
Googling helps:

https://after-sales-service.t-mobile.de/eg_online/t-mobile/mdacompact_bda_e.pdf

Have fun with your ENGLISH! manual.
hanmin
21-02-2006, 05:10 PM
Hi , i have a problem with my mda compact , the phone don't turn off.
Please can some one tell me how resolving this problem
Thanks, Macxi

That sounds very serious. You mean, if you press and hold the phone power button for like 5-10 seconds, it will not shut off the phone??
oltp
21-02-2006, 05:16 PM
A PPC can't be shutdown :!: You can turn off the phone function, the PDA will go in stan-by mode. Reminders etc. remember?

M
Timewarp
21-02-2006, 09:31 PM
Remove the battery and put it back in to totally shut it off (apart from power for the memory). :wink:
stevedebi
21-02-2006, 10:00 PM
Remove the battery and put it back in to totally shut it off (apart from power for the memory). :wink:

Not advised - the NiCad backup battery will go down completely, which shortens the life of the battery.
oltp
21-02-2006, 11:10 PM
Stevedebi you got a NiCad backup? I've got a NiMH.

Anyway just as long as you put the main battery back in, the back-up battery won't suffer too much. The thing I cannot understand is why shutting down a PDA completely? My magician eats 3% battery-life in about 8 hours on stand-by. & I don't have the risk off losing data by fumbling with batteries. It's a small PDA, not a cell-phone.

Cheers, M
Timewarp
22-02-2006, 12:21 AM
Remove the battery and put it back in to totally shut it off (apart from power for the memory). :wink:

Not advised - the NiCad backup battery will go down completely, which shortens the life of the battery.

I said put it back in so that the memory wouldn't go. :P
stevedebi
22-02-2006, 06:09 PM
Stevedebi you got a NiCad backup? I've got a NiMH.

Anyway just as long as you put the main battery back in, the back-up battery won't suffer too much. The thing I cannot understand is why shutting down a PDA completely? My magician eats 3% battery-life in about 8 hours on stand-by. & I don't have the risk off losing data by fumbling with batteries. It's a small PDA, not a cell-phone.

Cheers, M

ARGH! I can't believe I slipped up on that one, yes, it is HiMh. But the principal is the same. Those batteries are not meant to be fully discharged too many times.
stevedebi
22-02-2006, 06:10 PM
Remove the battery and put it back in to totally shut it off (apart from power for the memory). :wink:

Not advised - the NiCad backup battery will go down completely, which shortens the life of the battery.

I said put it back in so that the memory wouldn't go. :P
Sorry, I missed that. However, would the device do a hard reset after this? I would think that either the device would resume working, or it would hard reset. Might be worth a try - set an alarm and see what happens after a main battery removal event.
y2kgecko
22-02-2006, 08:09 PM
ARGH! I can't believe I slipped up on that one, yes, it is HiMh. But the principal is the same. Those batteries are not meant to be fully discharged too many times.

Not true, particularly in the case of NiCD. NiCD batteries develop a charge 'memory' if you DON'T fully discharge them before recharging, decreasing the total charge they will hold.
NiMH batteries supposedly overcome this problem by not using cadiumm however in my experience they still can be affected to a small degree if they are cheaper lower quality NiMH batteries. NiMH hold a better charge anyway, the average AAA size NiMH is 6-700 mA/hours where as the average NiCD AAA is only 300 mA/hours.
Timewarp
22-02-2006, 08:14 PM
Not true, particularly in the case of NiCD. NiCD batteries develop a charge 'memory' if you DON'T fully discharge them before recharging, decreasing the total charge they will hold.
NiMH batteries supposedly overcome this problem by not using cadiumm however in my experience they still can be affected to a small degree if they are cheaper lower quality NiMH batteries. NiMH hold a better charge anyway, the average AAA size NiMH is 6-700 mA/hours where as the average NiCD AAA is only 300 mA/hours.

I think that in the case of both battery types, charge memory is a bit of a myth. What happens is that the battery voltage suffers a little causing the device to think that the battery is losing charge very quickly, wheras it is really losing voltage slightly.