"JWBH" <blue.star777@REMOOOOVEvirgin.net> wrote in message
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> On my Nokia 3120 and 2610 I have set it up to 'switch off' if unused for 8 seconds, to conserve
> the battery.
>
> Annoyingly, they then takes another 15 seconds for the screen to switch off after that; which
> just seems uneccessay waste of battery. Is there any way to set up these phones to reduce this
> closing down time after the 'auto shut' operates ? thanks

Maybe the automatic shutdown is done in a graceful manner so that
if you were in the middle of something, the shutdown process could be
reversed by pressing a key without losing any data.

I'd find it extremely annoying if my phone would shut down if I was
entering a number and took 9 seconds to enter one of the digits.

Don