Since I occasionally have to do battery-pulls to end a bootlooop, etc. I was wondering how one would go about that on the RAZR if you needed to pull the battery. Is there an alternative or something?
IT IS still an issue from two different perspectives.
One, the combination of button pushes is software related, If the software is screwed up, will it recognize the button inputs and shut down the phone? This phone really needs a recesed restart button that is an actual mechanical link between and actual circuit from the battery to the circuit board.
The other thing that sort of worries me is if you really need to keep the phone off and it won't stay off. Those with the Droid X may have encountered the fact that after GB, if you turned off the phone, it came back on. If you set it into airplane mode, it came back on. Not a great idea when flying. Especially when it rings and the flight attendant is five feet away.
Only way I have found to guarantee my X will not turn on suddenly whiile flying is to PULL the battery.
the biggest problem i have with not being able to pull the battery is that i have never owned a droid that would last with a stock battery.... so if you cant pull it... you cant get an extended one. and from most of the reviews i have seen, the battery life on the razr is not that good nor close to being usable all day with heavy usage.
I know quite a few people with iPhones and two have had to take their phones to the Apple store for a battery pull. Happened to one person once, the other twice. That may not be a problem if the Apple store is nearby. However, in my case, the nearest Verizon store is 115 miles away and this can be common for people living in the western states.
IT IS still an issue from two different perspectives.
One, the combination of button pushes is software related, If the software is screwed up, will it recognize the button inputs and shut down the phone? This phone really needs a recesed restart button that is an actual mechanical link between and actual circuit from the battery to the circuit board.
The other thing that sort of worries me is if you really need to keep the phone off and it won't stay off. Those with the Droid X may have encountered the fact that after GB, if you turned off the phone, it came back on. If you set it into airplane mode, it came back on. Not a great idea when flying. Especially when it rings and the flight attendant is five feet away.
Only way I have found to guarantee my X will not turn on suddenly whiile flying is to PULL the battery.
Nothing personal to anyone. But assurances from people on a forum does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Software is software, and even on my laptop I had to pull a battery once to get it to reboot, then I had to reload all the software. A big pain, but at least in a few hours I had a laptop working again. And I might add, that I was told the eight second press of the on/off button triggered the BIOS to do the reset...well, it didn't work! And if I am not mistaken, BIOS is just software code written directly to the mother board ROM chipset.
The combination if button pushes is in the low level firmware and I have never heard of a tablet that would not reset this way.
adb reboot
and from most of the reviews i have seen, the battery life on the razr is not that good nor close to being usable all day with heavy usage.