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Re:No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights by bitwize on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:28PM (#34178937)
I use airplane mode to cycle the radio. Sometimes the firmware gets wedged and cycling it (by turning airplane mode on and then off) forces it to reset and reacquire a signal, which leads to better connectivity.
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Re:No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights by em-bee on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:59PM (#34179269)
i used it to get data to reconnect and potentially give me a new ip address. that's needed because i am in a country where some ip addresses are apparently being abused and as a result get blocked by some services.
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Re:No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights by anticensor on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:25AM (#34183728)
OS vendors could easily add a "restart and rearm the radio" control.
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