Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF?

On 4/25/24 03:26, Andy Burns wrote:

bad sector wrote:
 

The net is full of people having issues with phones they only thought were OFF.

 If you press the power button* and the screen comes on in under one second the phone wasn't OFF, it was just ASLEEP.
  [*] or any other action such as lifting it up, or touching the screen, or poking the fingerprint reader.

Sorry, I meant a call and not being powered or not. The little phone icon is green or red or whatever. It should always be visible when the unit is powered and should either be grayscale with a red bold X on it when on-hook or be bright red showing a flashing lifted hook when off-hook. The entire OS is full of ambiguities and lack of positive fedback as far as I'm concerned. The test should be giving the phone to someone who has never used one and asking what the current state is, THAT's how intuitive and *unmistakable* it needs to be!