[40xxv] Pressing power button does not turn off screen

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Pressing power button doesn’t work when screen is on. After sleep, pressing the button does wake up the device though.

muOS-RG40XX-V-2502.0_PIXIE-7c4e6a8f
Idle input display timeout: disabled
Idle input sleep timeout: 60s
Sleep function: Sleep 60m + shutdown

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I assume one of these is meant to be the sleep timeout. You have to hold the power button in for ~2 seconds if you want to place the device into sleep mode manually.

Hold the power button and think to yourself, 1 elephant, 2 elephant.

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Sorry yes, 2nd one is sleep timeout.

I am not trying to shutdown by pressing power for long time.

I just want to manually turn screen off like the stock os or any mobile phone, when you press the button for a very short time and screen goes off instantly, but does not completely power off the device. How to do that?

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As I said in my post you hold the power button down to sleep, and then press it again to wake it up.

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Is there any way to change that?

Why not just press and screen goes off like the default behaviour as in all mobile devices that exists and stock os? Screen turns on with instant press. Then why different for turning off screen?

Is MuOS made complex on purpose? I have seen multiple people asking questions here and reddit how turn off/sleep/shutdown works or does not work. Nobody had to ask such questions for stock os or phones as they are good design and intuitive. When people have to ask for basic things like these, then the design clearly failed.

NOTE:

  • Mobile device does not mean only phone, but any portable handhelds devices with a chip. They have separate off switch. Different function for short (sleep), and long press (off).
  • I don’t believe long press to turn off screen is “powerful”, “flexible”, “heaven forbid dare to be different” (it’s just a handheld gaming device not CERN antimatter factory), .
  • Devices have these “boring defaults” because they are intuitive and THAT IS POWERFUL. Where people don’t have to ask questions for simple things. They are simple things are default for a reason and not it’s not boring. It feels things difficult just to be “different”, “don’t want to fit in”. Imagine each switch/lever/handle in home/work/car/plane works differently on every different homes/car/work/plane. For simple things that are supposed to just work. World will burn, causalities. Design for simple things have a reason.
  • Why not turn on screen is also long press not to be “OOPS” and make reset button also same?
  • I know it’s free and developers work hard. I got rude (sorry) because I was trying to turn screen off, auto sleep (it does not work when both timeouts are same, why even have 2 confusing timeouts and not mention this), turn wifi off and wasted hours first time on a OS. Searching online could not find any answer. This design changes for simple operations are not powerful or flexible.
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First of all, rude!

But here’s the thing… muOS isn’t trying to be your average cookie-cutter stock OS. We’re not aiming for “JuSt LiKe EvErYtHiNg ElSe”, we’re aiming for what actually makes sense for this hardware. The power button doing more than just “off = off” is intentional, not an oops.

Yes, it’s different. Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to. And yes, if you’re expecting it to behave like a phone, it might feel weird at first.

OMG Plot Twist

muOS isn’t a phone OS nor is it StockOS! :exploding_head:

It’s built for handhelds, not built on hand-me-down design cliches. Different can be confusing… or it can be flexible and powerful. We’re definitely hedging our bets on the second.

Finally, we’re a small, hobby-driven crew building this free custom firmware in our spare time because we love doing this stuff. We’re not here to copy-paste what’s “normal” just to fit in. Heaven forbid we dare be different in a world that celebrates the same boring defaults. If that’s a deal breaker for you… well there is always “StockOS”.

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