The invention provides a terminal dormant method and a terminal. The problems that a single dormant mode can not satisfy the requirements of LTE terminals of different types and the requirement for low
power consumption in different application scenarios are solved. The terminal dormant method comprises the steps: whether the terminal satisfies dormant conditions or not is judged; when the terminal satisfies the dormant conditions, a dormant mode corresponding to the terminal type of the terminal is obtained; the terminal types comprise a single mode terminal, a first type multi-mode terminal and a second type multi-mode terminal, wherein the single mode terminal type corresponds to an electric mode under an advanced reduced
instruction set processor, the first type multi-mode terminal corresponds to an advanced reduced
instruction set processor frequency reducing mode, and the second type multi-mode terminal corresponds to an advanced reduced
instruction set processor normal frequency mode; dormant
processing is conducted according to the obtained dormant mode. According to the terminal dormant method and the terminal, the different dormant
modes can be selected according to different terminal types, so that the dormant
processing is conducted, and therefore the terminal dormant method and the terminal can satisfy the requirement for the low
power consumption of the terminals of different types.