How often do your restart your phone

[tadpoles]

I restart my phone and smartwatch every Sunday whether they need it or not. In fact I restart most of my household electronics on Sunday, and check for software/firmware updates and install them. I've practiced this since the early PC days when it was pretty much a necessity to do on a daily basis.
I've never quite understood why some folks wear it like a badge of honor to seldom/never restart their electronics when all it does is bring back the designed performance of the device and eliminate a lot of issues ...

FOMO. Do you have any idea how much you can miss out on in that 30 seconds? I do...and its scary.

 

[me just saying]

I restart my phone and smartwatch every Sunday whether they need it or not. In fact I restart most of my household electronics on Sunday, and check for software/firmware updates and install them. I've practiced this since the early PC days when it was pretty much a necessity to do on a daily basis.
I've never quite understood why some folks wear it like a badge of honor to seldom/never restart their electronics when all it does is bring back the designed performance of the device and eliminate a lot of issues ...

I've never quite understood why some folks wear restarting the phone regularly like a badge of honor...

sorry could not resist ;-P

 

[gendo667]

I've never quite understood why some folks wear restarting the phone regularly like a badge of honor...

sorry could not resist ;-P

It's mostly routine for me. I check everything and restart. Top off a charge while I get ready for work.

 

[tadpoles]

I know with my Samsung phones you can reset restarts to happen automatically, I don't know if stock Android has that feature or not. With it being automatic and happening at a time I choose (in the middle of the night) there doesn't seem to be any possible downside.

 

[Mike Dee]

I know with my Samsung phones you can reset restarts to happen automatically, I don't know if stock Android has that feature or not. With it being automatic and happening at a time I choose (in the middle of the night) there doesn't seem to be any possible downside.

I'm pretty sure it's in Android now

 

[Bla1ze]

I only restart my device when there seems to be an issue. Of course, it also depends on the device I'm using as well as some seem more prone to issues. My Note 9 would go for weeks without a reboot, I'd do my KEY2 once a week. And now my Pixel 4XL, I never even bother unless something comes up.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

I only restart my device when there seems to be an issue. Of course, it also depends on the device I'm using as well as some seem more prone to issues. My Note 9 would go for weeks without a reboot, I'd do my KEY2 once a week. And now my Pixel 4XL, I never even bother unless something comes up.

For me, the problem of waiting for a issue to reboot is sometimes the problem isn't real noticable right away. I've had it where I wasn't getting notifications for I think email, I didn't notice it right away and had several emails pop up when I restarted the phone, so I just do the weekly early Saturday morning auto restarts and haven't had a issue since.

 

[cyberdman]

I only restart it once every 1-2 weeks unless I have a finicky connection or something doesn't seem to be behaving then I'll restart then.

 

[TNSberry]

Pixel 4: About once per month between the monthly security updates.

 

[GDany]

Everyday.

 

[gd761]

Set on Automatic to Close and Reboot Everything Daily Every Night.

 

[Bodestone]

I only restart my device when there seems to be an issue. Of course, it also depends on the device I'm using as well as some seem more prone to issues. My Note 9 would go for weeks without a reboot, I'd do my KEY2 once a week. And now my Pixel 4XL, I never even bother unless something comes up.

The problem is, those issues that slowly arrise due to not having restarted the phone for a long time.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Mine started to lag a bit this afternoon. So I restarted and also used app optimiser in galaxy labs.