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Re: Battery usage

From Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Battery usage
Date 2016-08-13 12:00 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <VA.00000bb9.0a284478@me.invalid> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <yo63dngzbrpq.1uyp9woxzj45p.dlg@40tude.net> <VA.00000bb3.002ed1f2@me.invalid> <110820160932576171%nospam@nospam.invalid> <VA.00000bb6.054603fb@me.invalid> <120820161359550938%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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In article <120820161359550938%nospam@nospam.invalid>, Nospam wrote:
> changing the name is going to confuse the user even more. what do you
> propose to call it?

There are various options: "Radios off", "RF Safe", and "No transmit" 
spring to mind. "Airplane mode" is a bit misleading now that airlines 
don't require everything to be off, so a name change should *reduce* 
confusion.

> airplane mode came to be before phones had wifi and all it did was
> disable the cellular radios.

I've never seen airplane mode on anything that didn't have WiFi, but I 
have seen it on devices that don't have cellular radios.

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.

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Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 13:51 -0700
  Re: Battery usage Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-08-02 22:05 +0100
    Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 17:24 -0700
  Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-02 22:52 -0400
    Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-02 23:06 -0400
      Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-04 04:07 -0400
    Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 21:38 -0700
      Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-04 04:13 -0400
        Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-04 13:02 -0400
          Re: Battery usage mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-08-04 14:14 -0700
            Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-04 17:33 -0400
              Re: Battery usage mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-08-05 01:07 -0700
          Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-05 01:38 -0400
            Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-05 01:40 -0400
            Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 14:46 -0700
              Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-05 17:48 -0400
                Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-06 04:22 -0400
                Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-06 10:36 -0400
                Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-06 12:59 -0700
                Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-06 16:02 -0400
        Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 14:45 -0700
    Re: Battery usage Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 07:47 +0000
      Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-04 04:18 -0400
    Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-09 13:43 +0100
      Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-09 09:32 -0400
      Re: Battery usage tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-09 21:33 -0400
        Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-09 21:46 -0400
          Re: Battery usage AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-09 21:07 -0700
        Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-11 13:30 +0100
          Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-11 09:32 -0400
            Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-12 13:14 +0100
              Re: Battery usage Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-12 17:54 +0000
                Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-13 12:00 +0100
                Re: Battery usage Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-13 19:01 +0000
                Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-14 12:34 +0100
                Re: Battery usage Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-14 15:28 +0000
                Flying in circles (Was: Battery usage) Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-15 11:08 +0100
                Re: Flying in circles Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-15 11:43 +0000
                Re: Battery usage Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-08-14 15:31 +0000
              Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-12 13:59 -0400
                Re: Battery usage Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-13 12:00 +0100
  Re: Battery usage Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 07:37 +0000
    Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 10:27 -0700
      Re: Battery usage Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 17:51 +0000
        Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 10:58 -0700
          Re: Battery usage Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 06:25 +0000
            Re: Battery usage crankypuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 08:56 -0600
              Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-05 11:14 -0400
        Re: Battery usage nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-03 14:47 -0400
  Re: Battery usage crankypuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 08:43 -0600
    Re: Battery usage The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 14:43 -0700

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