Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF?

On 04/25/2024 5:27 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Jeff Layman wrote:
 

Andy Burns wrote:
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any other action such as lifting it up, or touching the screen,
or poking the fingerprint reader.

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The lifting it up thing is interesting. I wonder if that's done with an accelerometer? If so, it would be checking that too.

 Most likely, though mine probably uses a magnetometer too, as it can do different things depending if it's face-up or face-down.
 With the enhanced "find my device" service, for newer phones being turned OFF will no longer mean really OFF, bluetooth (and UWB?) will still be active ...
 

I don't have a lot of experience with cell phones, but mine can be turned off.   To turn it off complete you press and hold the power key until a screen comes up that gives a couple of options.   On is to turn of the cell phone.   When you press the power button, it goes through the complete start up routine that it went through when purchased.