Wow, you are totally right. I wsm't letting the screen timeout.

That works great for me. I guess the others will need a hard shell to prevent screen input, or lower the timeout rate.

Actually: no. My NokiLLO goes dark immediately (not really, obviously; it does that cool fade-out effect) and stays dark until I hit the power-enter keycombo. Both screen brightness and display timeout are set at 2 minutes in the control panel. The "lock screen and keys" box is not ticked.

This is all on a 770, obviously...

Here's a question that's been nagging in the recesses of my brains: Has anyone tried the "magnet trick" on a NaBOO (if I ever buy a N800, that's going to be its name!) yet? Maybe Nokia forgot to take that switch out and it can be used in an upcoming N800 case.

I've only got a weak magnet to hand (one of my daughters letters of the fridge) but it doesn't seem to do anything on the N800.

I've raised Bug #943 to address the lack of a fast and efficient "standby" mode - the use of the power button makes the process too fiddly to activiate in a hurry and the default operation ("Lock touch screen and keys") leaves the touchscreen active for a few minutes until a timeout kicks in (which of course it never does when the device is bumping around in your pocket).

Please vote on it or suggest other alternatives/enhancements.

It's a shame the cover isn't available to this end, but without it, my vote is to change the "hold down the power button for 2 seconds" behavior from "power down" to "lock the keys and screen", and they should fix that locking so that it doesn't require the timeout.

I'd also like to be able to awaken it from sleep by just holding down the power button for 2 seconds, since that's not likely to happen accidentally in my pocket. Nobody switches the device on and off regularly (or, at least, they shouldn't, if the damn sleep would work!), so that "shortcut" action should be devoted to switching the device to and from sleep.

Actually, my true preference would be to make the "tap the power button" behavior do the sleep/awaken, and the "hold the power button" bring up the power menu. I don't think I've ever actually used that power menu. But somehow I don't see this preference being implemented, since it might be deemed less intuitive.

My opinions would probably be more meaningful if I actually had an n800, though. Real n800 users may have different opinions. That cover on the n770 is so convenient once you get used to it!

Personally I find the recessed Power button way too small to use in a hurry which is usually when I need to lock the N800. It's just not a pleasant button to have to use on a regular basis which is why I would prefer assinging the "standby" function to a larger and more easily accesible front-facing button.

Yet again it only serves to highlight what a poor decision it was to use such small buttons on the top of the unit.

I'd agree the behaviour of the power button could be changed to make it more useful, this could be a user definable option in the control panel (single click - either pop up the menu or choose a default action from a list, and the same options for a prolonged click). However, due to the size and recessed nature of this button I absolutely hate it and would prefer to be able to use one of the other larger front-facing buttons for the crucial "standby" (cover on/cover off) mode which I'm sure we would all want to use far more than any other power saving mode.

Note that voting hasn't been enabled for N800 defects yet - I've raised another bug (#944) against Bugzilla itself to have this corrected!

Have you seen the "Soft Poweroff" option?

http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-use...ry/002690.html

Since I don't have an N800 I'm not exactly sure what it does, but it might be what you want.

Cheers,

Andrew

Yep. That works. Does not seem to switch off the wifi though so need to do that first. Also took two reboots before the power button menue came back.