Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Layman Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF? Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:47:17 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f074ed4bf44aa61e167c073d797e2ff2"; logging-data="3059197"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19wWc5oSxSHL0vHmOMJ5LHWETE6sBIFF80=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:jIPj36UGYCrpLQSmhafnNFZULMM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1944 On 25/04/2024 08:26, Andy Burns wrote: > bad sector wrote: > >> The net is full of people having issues with phones they only thought >> were OFF. > > If you press the power button* and the screen comes on in under one > second the phone wasn't OFF, it was just ASLEEP. I think that's a too inactive term! It's checking with the cell towers regularly, waiting to see if there are any messages or emails. It's sending location data, also possibly using bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi to see what's going on nearby, and who knows what else. I would say it's just "got its eyes closed" while doing what it's been told to do. :-) > [*] or any other action such as lifting it up, or touching the screen, > or poking the fingerprint reader. The lifting it up thing is interesting. I wonder if that's done with an accelerometer? If so, it would be checking that too. -- Jeff