On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 08:54:12 AM robin wrote: > I have a question regarding the flight mode: > > if I turn it on (GTA02 qtmoko v47) the icon is shown on the home screen and > calls are not possible anymore, so this is how I expected it to behave, but > the antenna still seems to be on as I see some bars indicating reception > and the power consumption stays the same as without flight mode.
I dont know much about it, but i think flight mode means that you dont transmit any signal, but you can still receive signal strength. Modems have AT commands for airplane mode. I tried it on GTA04 (AT_OAIR) without any effect, maybe i did something wrong... > there > once was a paper which looked at different parts of power consumption of > the freerunner and if I remember correctly GSM was one of the major > consumers. You can check yourself - power off the modem and put the phone in suspend and watch charge_now: http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2012-August/002853.html > Now if I turn flight mode of the GSM apparently cannot connect to the > station anymore and I have to reboot. No idea here. I dont use airplanes ;-) Regards Radek _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community