How often do you soft reset?
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Oh no, you pull the battery? Did you come from a Blackberry? Droid's don't need to have the battery pulled to refresh everything. Just simply turn the phone off and back on and that will wipe the RAM and refresh everything.
I do a power cycle usually after 125 hours or so. Just checked and I'm up to 114 hours of runtime and my Droid is running smooth still. Yours shouldn't be sluggish or freezing. That sounds like a different problem. Droid's aren't prone to have slower performance based on the length of uptime. That was a Blackberry thing. I haven't experienced it with the Droid which is nice. But I do think a simple power cycle every 4-5 days is good for the Droid.
I do a power cycle usually after 125 hours or so. Just checked and I'm up to 114 hours of runtime and my Droid is running smooth still. Yours shouldn't be sluggish or freezing. That sounds like a different problem. Droid's aren't prone to have slower performance based on the length of uptime. That was a Blackberry thing. I haven't experienced it with the Droid which is nice. But I do think a simple power cycle every 4-5 days is good for the Droid.
Thank you for this info!
I have been in the BlackBerry world for so long the battery-pull drill is second nature. Good to know the right way to handle this from now on...
How do you see the number of runtime hours? I've not seen that yet, only in my battery usage where it shows me the time since I've last unplugged.
Thanks.
Goto settings, About Phone, Status, scroll to the bottom of the screen.
I do a soft reset at about 4 days or so....
I'd like to say "never". but, that's not really true. The option on the poll that had the highest option is "more than 100 hours". So, I chose that.
I do a reboot about once a month.
Whenever I get a hankering for a thorough cleaning and break out the q-tips and cleaner. I do some cache cleaning, clean up browser history, delete old sms and email, delete dumb pictutes from gallery, uninstall apps that were downloaded hastily and now are unwanted.
After cleaning the device, the SD card and the cache it just makes sense to do a reset (NOT a battery pull) and get all cleaned up and refreshed.
by the way... best method for reboot (on Droid)... slide open keypad and press and hold control-alt-delete. NOTE: "control" is the arrow key to the left of the "z".
PS: compare that to my experience with Blackberry: 3-4 times a day.
I do a reboot about once a month.
Whenever I get a hankering for a thorough cleaning and break out the q-tips and cleaner. I do some cache cleaning, clean up browser history, delete old sms and email, delete dumb pictutes from gallery, uninstall apps that were downloaded hastily and now are unwanted.
After cleaning the device, the SD card and the cache it just makes sense to do a reset (NOT a battery pull) and get all cleaned up and refreshed.
by the way... best method for reboot (on Droid)... slide open keypad and press and hold control-alt-delete. NOTE: "control" is the arrow key to the left of the "z".
PS: compare that to my experience with Blackberry: 3-4 times a day.
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A battery pull would be a hard reset and a normal power cycle would be a soft to me.
Rarely do I pull a battery pull
Rarely do I pull a battery pull
I do a soft reset every once in a while. Just because Android seems to have great memory management doesn't mean that it is perfect. If I do a lot of installing / uninstalling of apps over the course of a week, I find a soft reset to be of help if things start acting sluggish.
Technically speaking, he is saying, a shutdown/startup is a 'soft reset' because it is done via software. And, not knowing the Android OS that well, I would assume it does some cleanup and preparation before powering off through the OS, as opposed to an abrupt loss of power source.
ditto,i just purchased my droid (lastweek) and over the course of a few day's i also began to notice similarities between the behavior of the droid and my former storm with the web pages being loaded but the browser still continueing to load until i did a forced stop after two day's i did a battery pull and it seemed to cure the ail so i figured it must be it except as it was pointed out it probably was just the restart process which cleared it out
good info to know for future issues thank you.....
Rarely, and ever since I installed the app CacheMate to clear the caches, hardly.
Now, the only time I do a power cycle is when I stop getting email notifications on my msn account.
I clear the caches when my browser starts to take longer loading web pages.
Now, the only time I do a power cycle is when I stop getting email notifications on my msn account.
I clear the caches when my browser starts to take longer loading web pages.
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Or if you are on cyanogen, you hit the power button and hit reboot phone.
Loving this feature now
I'll have to try that one. I restart it once a week on Sunday morning. Actually I do that with everything: PC, media center, laptop, Droid. Everything is running nicely all week long and would probably continue, but it's just a personal preference. Everything seems just a little snappier after. In fact I need to do that right now!
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