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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 4:54 pm
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Originally Posted by bdesmond
I don't check bags and I certainly wouldn't check them wiht anything valueable in it if I could help it, but, some wireless electronics will execute a backoff algorithm searching for a signal (whereby if it doesn't find a signal in a minute it will wait two minutes, four, etc), and a phone not searching for a signal with no display running is really consuming next to no power...

did you crash? it seems af if you did not since you are wrote this post !!!

plane made it ok...right...do not worry so much...it really is very overhyped about keeping your phone on while in flight...I forget to turn it off all the time....
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