Thread: Turning Bluetooth On on the N800
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2007-01-20 , 00:55
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
I don't think many care about the state of BT between reboots. What we want is a persistent dock applet as we had with the 770 BT app. As BT is a notorious battery juice sucker, it makes perfect sense that it should be as easy as possible to turn it on and off.
Personally I doubt the first statement. Maybe I should start a poll. "How many enjoy manually turning Bluetooth back on every single time you restart your N800?"

Currently, if the setting is On, the dock applet shows and its additional settings are available. The problem is that the device does not save the value of that particular setting, so that it has to be turned on again after a reboot in order to reappear in the tab. Also the settings shown via that icon don't appear to toggle (or check/uncheck) which is poor design IMO. The icon should persist, and so should whatever settings the user wants to persist. So even if not "many care about the state of BT between reboots", WE should make that decision, not the device.

And to Jose: as I explained to another user, if you don't want the setting to persist, you leave Bluetooth "Off". That's the way it *should* be working, again IMO.