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Re: Battery usage

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Battery usage
Date 2016-08-12 13:59 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <120820161359550938%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
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In article <VA.00000bb6.054603fb@me.invalid>, Daniel James
<daniel@me.invalid> wrote:

> >> I'd regard the fact that the airplane icon (denoting airplane mode)
> >> remains visible after the WiFi is turned back on as a bug, though.
> >> If selecting airplane mode turns the WiFi off then turning the WiFi
> >> on again should mean that you're no longer in airplane mode.
> > 
> > it's not a bug. other radios are off, namely cellular.
> 
> <shrug> It's inconsistent behaviour.
> 
> Forget that it's called "airplane mode" and that many airlines now allow 
> WiFi in flight. I'm talking about the logic of the UI.
> 
> If selecting a certain mode turns off the Wifi (among other things), 
> then when you turn the WiFi on again you can no longer be said to be in 
> that mode. 
> 
> In the case of my Sony selecting the "all radios off" mode causes the 
> display of an aircraft-like icon, but turning WiFi back on -- so NOT all 
> radios are off -- leaves the icon displayed. That's inconsistent 
> behaviour that is likely to confuse or mislead the user, and I call that 
> a bug.

changing the name is going to confuse the user even more. what do you
propose to call it?

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

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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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