GPS Week Number Rollover [WNRO] JUST Findings, Fixes, and Frustrations

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Yes and yes

Suicide.dat turns the device off...rather than it being in standby mode

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Right, but when does this "turn off" happen? That's what is still not clear to me.

Create a new document called suicide.txt > open it and enter 20 > close & save it > rename the file extension to *.dat = suicide.dat

Because you entered 20...it will turn off after 20 seconds...if you entered 30, it would turn off after 30 seconds etc

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20 or 30 seconds, after I turn the device on? What stops it from doing that every time I turn it on?

Thank you for your patience

No...when you turn your device off, it actually goes into standby mode...if you've put a suicide.dat into the root and then you turn it off, it will actually turn off rather than going into standby mode

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Oh, so even when I leave my device off for days/weeks, it is actually not 100% off but only on standby?

Now with the suicide.dat file, when I switch off it will (after the number of seconds specified in the file) turn completely off. Then when I turn it back on, it does a fresh boot, like the one it does after a device reset, and because of that it will find the satellites quicker.

Did I get it now?

Yes, spot on....

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Thanks so much!

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No. After a few days (I don't know exactly how many) it will automatically turn completely off, with or without "suicide.dat". This file allows you to set the shutdown delay accurately.

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Makes sense, given that eventually the battery would be empty.