Thread: N800 Turn off or let it idle?
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2007-03-14 , 21:10
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Originally Posted by Nanocore View Post
OK, so this may sound like a dumb question, but what is the recommended way to leave the N800 when not in use? Turn it off or let it sit idle and the screen goes dark? I had an IPAQ for the past 7 years and there is a button to "shut it off" up on the face of the unit. When it needed to be reset, it was a stick in the bottom of the unit. And the button on the front would bring it right back up where you left off when it was "turned off". A press to the screen wouldn't turn it on, you had to press the button. Now with the N800, if I turn it off from the top, it takes to long to come back up, but if I just let it sit idle any press of the screen turns it on. I am thinking I am not doing something correct, maybe there was something I missed. And since the quick start guide didn't have any information about this, I thought I would post here.
When the N800 screen is off it's very similar to when you turned "off" your IPAQ: The IPAQ isn't really off, that doesn't happen until it's out of battery. In fact, if you go to the control panel on the N800 and the screen settings and set the two timeouts to be equal (whatever value), then pressing the little recessed button on the N800 followed by the center button in the five-way will immediately switch off the display and lock the screen. This is for almost all purposes the same as the power off button on a PDA (btw. I also use PDAs, owning several). The main difference is that the wi-fi on the N800 can in fact continue to be active (if so configured), while a PDA always turns off wi-fi. But the N800 can take it, it still lasts about 10 days, more or less the same as a T3 in "off" position. Pressing the two buttons again will activate the screen again, as quickly as a PD.

The equivalent of PDA "reset" is to reboot the N800, there are several ways but one is to turn it all the way "off" the way you have been doing, and powering it up again. Or go through "soft powerdown" as has been mentioned. Or installing osso-xterm and becomeroot and enter "sync;reboot" from a root command line..
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