1.1. Power/Lock Key

On the upper-left rear of your Xoom as you hold the Xoom horizontally, with the Motorola logo on the upper left, you find a small, black button. It may be only a single button, but it’s a hard-working one, and it performs several functions:

• Sleep/Wake. When your Xoom is turned on, pressing and releasing the button puts your Xoom into Sleep mode, a state in which the display is turned off and the device uses only a minimum amount of power, in order to save battery life. When the Xoom is in dreamland, it also doesn’t register any taps, so that you can’t accidentally send an email or delete every picture on your Xoom. When your Xoom is asleep, pressing and releasing this button wakes up the Xoom into its locked mode—you’ll see how to unlock it a little later.

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  In this chapter, and throughout the book, the location of various physical buttons, ports, cameras, and so on, assumes that you’re holding the Xoom horizontally, with the Motorola logo at upper left.

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• On/Off. If your Xoom is turned off, hold down the button, and it springs to life. Simple, yes? If, on the other hand, it’s turned on, holding down the button turns it off. When you do so, though, it doesn’t immediately shut down. Instead, a screen appears asking if you want to turn it off. Tap OK to turn it off; tap cancel to keep using your Xoom.