Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:23:20 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d2f0c6f5a6f74958b15c76633b6dfa61"; logging-data="395258"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/V6JdnYPwUs6BpnSXBPOOtg6qDNGLtNO0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6IGMidAP1aZQzsQOKvckNzQUVa4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2372 On 4/24/2024 6:55 PM, bad sector wrote: > The net is full of people having issues with phones they only thought > were OFF. My android Zflip is even worse that a simple conventional > design. Most times I turn it OFF/ON to be sure, there being no obvious, > bulletproof, always in your face, indication which should be a > prerequisite. > > Frankly I don't understand all this confusion. I have an Android TCL Tracfone. If I press the power button it goes black but can receive calls. I've turned off the screen. If I hold the power button I get 3 options. One is to power off. I select that. It says it's shutting down. I can then leave the phone in my glove compartment for about 3 months without losing juice, and I'm not being tracked. If I don't power down then I am tracked and I think the battery lasts maybe 2 days. (I've only tried it once, by accident. I never leave the power on except when making a call.) To turn it on again I have to hold down the power button until it vibrates, then wait for a Win98-style boot process. Maybe it's different on some cellphones, or on iPhones? From the posts here it sounds like all Androids work the same way that mine does.