Palm customer service folks told me you can only turn off the phone on the Palm Treo 700p - that you couldn't ever turn off the PDA part. They asked me (in a rhetorical way) why I'd ever want to do this. Guess they couldn't imagine a desire to save battery life, travel by plane (including takeoff and landing), etc. Anyway, I figured it out on my own. Not exactly intuitive:
Turn Treo Off (all the way - including PDA)
1. Hold down red button until it says goodbye. Surprise! Treo is still on - but it is now PDA/airplane mode. Note that the wireless symbol in upper right has circle around it now.
2. THEN quickly press red button and the whole thing turns off.
To turn phone back on
1. Press phone button. Then pick someone to call eg voicemail It asks you if you want the phone on. CLICK yes.
Not being able to completely turn it off keeps me awake. Why? The device beeps - usually in the early morning hours - when it loses contact with the servers here at my work. It beeps with an error message that connection has been lost.
Obviously, I don't appreciate this at 4:30am. And I don't care that connection has been lost. By the time I would have normally awaken, the server likely would be back on line, or there's nothing I could do about it anyway - at 4:30am or any other time.
Perhaps a software patch can fix this? (I dunno)
- Ryan T.
Posted by: Ryan | October 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM
There is no way to turn off the PDA part of the Treo short of removing the battery. Turning off the phone then pressing the red button just turns off the screen.
Mike Akamine, Senior Product Manager at Palm stated:
In Treo Pro we prioritized function by expected frequency of use. In order of frequency (most to least), we expected customers to use screen on/off, then flight mode, then completely off. We thought completely off is seldom used because there is a lot of value in the PDA functionality of Treo Pro even when the radio is off, and booting the system up from a complete off state takes about 60 seconds.
Posted by: Mark | December 17, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Does this also work for the treo 755p?
Posted by: QUEST | September 26, 2008 at 04:06 PM
It works for me - it does go through the load screen like it does when I completely remove the battery. It also says phone is off (I see that only if I try to make a phone call).
Posted by: Mary | December 07, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Wrong!!! This just turns the screen off until you press the button again. It doesn't completely turn off the phone. If the phone was completely turned off, it would have to go through the load screen like it does if you completely remove the battery.
Posted by: Wrong | December 06, 2007 at 08:30 PM
why was this so hard to find? can't tell you how long i've been looking for this obviously simple yet next to impossible to find info.
Posted by: | October 31, 2007 at 12:04 PM