Is disabling all the wireless connections the same as enabling "airplane mode"?

I didn't dig into the source code for authenticity so consider this as an educated guess. I noted that when turning on Airplane mode only the radios mentioned in the key airplane_mode_radios¹ are turned off. That is, the communication through those radios cease to exist. The list of radios in the value for that key I've seen in my devices are: cell,bluetooth,wifi,nfc,wimax,

where,

• cell: cellular radio (used for mobile network connectivity)


• bluetooth: used for bluetooth connectivity


• wifi: used for Wi-Fi and portable hotspot connectivity


• nfc: for NFC


• wimax: ??

So yes, if you individually disable all the radios listed in the said key in your device then you would effectively be achieving the final result of Airplane mode.

If it matters, I found the value for the said key using adb through the command:

adb shell settings get global airplane_mode_radios

¹ _{The key can be found in the table global of database /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db. In Android 6.x, the location for the key is /data/system/users/0/settings_global.xml}