[maemo-developers] how to manage phone Profiles in Maemo

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/11/11 daniel wilms <daniel.wilms at nokia.com>:
> Hi
>> thank you for the fast response;
>>
>> #define MCE_DEVICE_MODE_CHANGE_REQ   "req_device_mode_change"
>>
>> WoW!, that looks promising. But how can I use this inside my application
>> to force changing of the Profile/mode of the phone ??
>>
>>
> this describes a dbus-service. How to implement it, depends on the
> language you are using. Here an example using the dbus-send in the terminal:
>
> bus-send --system --type=method_call --dest="com.nokia.mce"
> --print-reply /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.get_device_mode
>
> The reply is the device mode as a string. But with mce you can just
> switch between "normal", "flight" and "offline" mode. I will try to
> figure out if and how you can select the other profiles.
>
> Cheers Daniel

What's the difference between "flight" and "offline" ?

-- 
anidel
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