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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 08:14:20 +0200
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On 2024-04-26 22:53, bad sector wrote:
> On 4/25/24 21:28, micky wrote:
>> In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:53 -0400, bad?sector
>> <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/25/24 05:29, Nick Cine wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:47:17 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> [*] 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.
>>>>
>>>> A few more comments, but I don't know much about this topic.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Even if a phone is "off", when you plug in a charger, "something
>>>>      happens", so is it really off? I don't know, but how does it 
>>>> charge?
>>>>
>>>> 2. The government has, in the past, secretly modified gangster's phones
>>>>      such that they looked to be off, but were secretly still 
>>>> transmitting.
>>>>
>>>> 3. The iPhone, I believe, is never off, which, I'm told, is how the 
>>>> FindMy
>>>>      sensing works for stolen phones.
>>>>
>>>> How does any of that work? I don't know.
>>>
>>> For one thing the battery should be removable with one hand,
>>> blindfolded, in 3 seconds or less.
>>
>> Wyatt Earp could do that but I can't.
> 
> Regulations require it for oxygen masks, if enough people demand it the 
> same lawmakers can just as easily require it for cell phones as well.

The EU is planning to regulate user replaceable batteries in phones and 
other devices. No mention of doing it "with one hand, blindfolded, in 3 
seconds or less", though.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.