![\"Windows](\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/sp-quicklist.gif\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
How much more basic can you get than the Windows Mobile Smartphone’s on-off button. Of course, this is a WiMo device, so nothing is as simple as you might want or expect. In most of our minds, on-off switches work in a 19th century mode. Setting it to the on position closes a circuit and electricity flows. Turning the switch off breaks the circuit and electricity does not flow. But, the WiMo Smartphone button is not a simple switch, is it? So, let’s look at the implications.<\/p>\n
ON<\/strong>: You might sometime hear or read someone advice a WiMo Smartphone user to press and hold the power key until the screen lights up. This, IMHO, is a waste of effort and potentially damaging to the finger or thumb pressing the button. Here’s a better way: Press and hold the button while you count 1 2. Release the button. If you wait a second or two the screen will light up and the Smartphone begins its boot process.<\/p>\n QUICK LIST<\/strong>: If you press the on-off button and quickly release it, you’ll see a Quick Menu like the one displayed above. It gives you access to a number of functions including the alert profile (Normal, Silent, Vibrate, etc.) as well as turning the phone off (option 1).<\/p>\n OFF<\/strong>: Press and hold the on-off button for a two count (similar to turning it on). This bypasses the Quick List and starts the shut down process.<\/p>\n UH OH<\/strong>: A WiMo Smartphone can get itself into a mess once in a while (for me this is about twice a month) and reach a point where pressing the on-off button is a useless gesture (literally). Smartphone, unlike Pocket PCs, do not have a reset button. You should do what the manufacturer recommends at this point. Me? I take off the battery cover and pull the battery for a second and then reinsert it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How much more basic can you get than the Windows Mobile Smartphone’s on-off button. Of course, this is a WiMo device, so nothing is as simple as you might want or expect. In most of our minds, on-off switches work in a 19th century mode. Setting it to the on position closes a circuit and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,4,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-to-basics","category-mobile-devices","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-8O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}