Battery life with exam mode

[gteague]

speaking for myself only, as a beginner who isn't yet familiar with the needed protocols and keystrokes, first, the exam mode is 'tacked on' to the 3rd page of settings and thus you can encounter it easily just by not knowing what's on the 3rd page.

second, for a newbie who isn't used to the keystrokes to exit the settings menu, you are offered at least 3 choices: /ok/, /start/ and /enter/. if you deliberately go into the exam menu, as i did, to set a short timeout and a password so i can get out of it (i had no idea a reset killed the countdown timer), it sort of makes logical sense to hit /start/ to 'start' the changes you made.

bottom line is that i found it way too easy to put myself into that mode. and i truly detest going into windows to clear it. i have two dozen radios connected to my mac feeding into a windows7 virtual machine under vmware and trying to install another virtual usb port sometimes scrambles up the usb bus and i have to re-install the connection for one or more radios. i have at least 4 usb hubs with nearly 3 dozen usb slots and nearly all of them are filled. it's a pain in the ass for me personally, in other words.

/guy