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Originally Posted by Stringer
If that is true, then how does it monitor the power button? It is not old good on/off switch, but merely an impulse to do something.
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I'm not going to claim to be an expert on Kindles -- I didn't even know you couldn't turn them all the way off -- but the switch doesn't always have to be monitored, as it's also a mechanical switch. Computers and cell phones are the same. If I hit my power button on cell phone, the screen goes blank. Hit the power button again and it comes right back on. If I hold down the switch, I'll get a menu that let's me power it off. At that point it turns off completely. There is no monitoring going on -- it's completely off. Hit the power on button again, and it starts a 2 minute (or so) power-on sequence. The switch is dual purpose -- it can take the cell phone out of sleep mode (where the switch would be "monitored") or it can be mechanical switch and turn the cell phone on from a completely off state -- kind of like a light switch.