mpx200 - application unlocking does it affect your warranty

[Guest mojo]

Hi guys,

got me an mpx200 yesterday and so far well impressed. Just wanted to know if decertifying the phone affects the warranty in any way. Another post mentioned that orange would be providing this service soon so I presume it shouldn't.

On a different note, when the keypad is locked I can still power off the phone and use the jog dial to adjust the volume, seems a bit strange to me but is this how it's supposed to be?

[Guest alphaflux]

No, it doesn't affect your warranty.

As regards the keypad, yeah, this is correct. I agree that it seems a little strange that the phone should be able to be powered off when it is closed, but its worth noting that the keypad isn't actually locked whilst the phone is in the closed position, its just not accessible. Therefore, it would seem logical that the external buttons would remain unlocked too.

[Guest Shuflie]

Even if you lock the keys (hold down the hangup button for a few seconds) you can switch off the phone. The jog dial is still active too although it won't actually change the volume (you can only see this when the phone is closed, the volume indicator comes up and the LCD lights).

Powering off the phone is an entirely different matter, with the keypad locked and the phone open or closed if you press the power button for 2 sec the phone will start to shutdown as shown by the Motorola Logo appearing on the LCD. The main screen gives no indication that the phone is turning off, in fact if you unlock the keypad you can continue using the phone right up until the screen goes black. Looks like the motorola hardware takes over the powerdown sequence and after a set period of time just kills the power to the phone, good if software has totally frozen but not such a great idea if an application is writing to the registry when the power is cut, could cause the phone to perform a hard reset because of a corrupt registry. I would count this as a fairly major bug in the hardware.

[Guest shimmip]

Ah, that would explain why when I turned my phone off this way (with phone closed) I lost all of the settings I had spent quite some time setting up. I would also count this as a major bug. Great phone though!