Don't know how it works for anyone else's phone but on my android (Samsung Galaxy IIS) there's a thin black bar at the top of the screen. It shows the time, signal strength, data transmission mode and battery level. If you rest your thumb on that bar a little tab drops down. Sweep that tab down and like a roll-down blind it will cover the screen. At the top you can turn on/off the auto-rotate, wi-fi, mute, Bluetooth and gps. Just sweep it up and it hides up there until you next need it.
Easy peasy. :-) cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: steve harley <[email protected]> Sent: December 29, 2011 12/29/11 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bad news for Frank on 2011-12-29 10:51 Paul Stenquist wrote > Airplane mode certainly wouldn't work for me. The only reason I have a smart > phone is so that I can maintain 9 to 5 office hours without sitting in front > of the computer all day. But I'm not particularly interested in turning off > the GPS either. I just mentioned that I see no way of doing it. However, > there's much about my phone (a motorola droid 2) that I don't know. i don't have an Android tool, but i understand the control is under menu > settings > location > location setting i could have gotten the wrong impression from the couple of articles i read, so Android experts feel free to correct me, but the overall controls seem a little less flexible on Android — on iOS you can turn off location services for individual apps, and you can also see which apps have used location services recently, whereas Android just lets you know that an app will have access to your location, and Android is always tied into the Googleplex unless you turn off location services completely (except perhaps for special versions of Android like Kindle Fire) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
