Thread: What's the difference between "Soft PowerOff" and letting the device go into standby?
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2007-05-17 , 10:27
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Originally Posted by gnuite View Post
Did I miss a firmware update? I'm running 10-7, and softpoweroff does the same thing for me now that it did before 10-7, which is turn off the screen and lock the screen/keys.
I have linked softpoweroff to longkeypress on the power switch. With the original N800 firmware, this would also lock screen and keys, even if I hadn't selected that option in Control Panel. A longkeypress would bring the N800 immediately back to operation, with screen and keys enabled.

After upgrading to the new firmware, longkeypress would no longer lock screen and keys, unless I checked that option in Control Panel. If I now longpress to turn the N800 back on, I still have to go through the shortpress power switch and shortpress Enter key to reactivate screen and keys. This kinda makes the whole idea of a quick on-and-off routine moot.

So maybe it works as expected to some, it sure doesn't to me.