Daily reboot

[o4liberty]

I have always done a daily reboot on any Android device I have owned and find they run smoother when doing this. Anyone else find that a reboot helps the phones performance? I am running beta in my 2 xl.

 

[SpookDroid]

Usually it should, since stuff in cache just piles up. However, most things will also have a slower start-up the first time you run them (since cached stuff is gone). So it's a trade-off, one most people might not notice. That's also why phones like Samsung's are starting to include auto-reboot options in their settings.

 

[J Dubbs]

I have a landline so my phones get shut off, charged to %100 and unplugged every night. My batteries last forever and my phones work pretty much problem free, especially my pixel.

Since the pixels on Android 9 don't have a cache partition wipe option, they're supposed to do something similar on shutdown/startup. Between the nightly shutdowns and my multiple restarts after the monthly updates my pixel runs perfectly. That's why the first thing all tech support asks is when you last rebooted your phone.

Sometimes when a phone's been on for a month straight a reboot can fix some very strange issues.... plus some Google play store apps need a restart after an update to work properly. That's why I manually update my apps every couple of nights right before I shut my phone down for the evening.

 

[Rick Jacobs]

I do a daily reboot but not for performance reasons. I work from home and an early morning reboot is the only way I can reset Smartlock so it knows I'm home and I don't use my password to manually unlock my phone during the day.

 

[chezm]

I rarely reboot my device, only when forced (i.e. update) or something is acting odd (happened more early days of phone, hasnt been an issue in maybe 5 months). I find my Pixel 3 works fine without rebooting, not sure what issues it would resolve on my end...the only annoying thing is the lack of Ram sometimes gets noticed (youtube feed loading as you scroll) but thats more a RAM issue than a processor hanging or caching problem.