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Why isn't any phone doing it? (either smart or feature variety)
by listic 11y ago
Why isn't any phone doing it? (either smart or feature variety)
- kalleboo 11y agoProbably because phones are rebooted so rarely - it only happens on an OS update or if your battery runs out.
- currysausage 11y agoWith my Nexus 4, rebooting every other day is a pretty good idea. Usually fixes my Wi-Fi, 3G, and all sorts of weird bugs for the moment. Don't know how representative this is for Android phones in general, but most Nexus 4 owners I know tell me this is normal. Oh, usually once a week, sometimes twice a day, the phone will do the rebooting for me. Sometimes when it's in my pocket, sometimes when I try to watch a video that's just too long. Maybe some kind kind of memory error?
- badpenny 11y agoI used to have a Nexus 4 and had the same problem. I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and still have the same kinds of issues, just not as frequently. From what I've heard from other people I think it's fair to say it's a general problem with Android-based smart phones.
- cpach 11y agoI reboot my iPhone 5s every two or four weeks or so. Sometimes that just the easiest way to deal with some bugs (e.g. Airplay issues). Since it happens so infrequently I don't really mind the boot times that much. But all else being equal, of course faster is better than slow :)
- zyrthofar 11y agoI have a Galaxy S3, and it was rebooting randomly more and more often. At the time, I lived in an apartment. I bought a house earlier this year, and to my knowledge (and memory) this hasn't happened again since. What you said reminded me of this, because I had forgotten this infuriating rebooting. I wonder if this was related to the building or something else? This is weird.
- breakingcups 11y agoWow, that's exactly my experience. Used to reboot 4-5 times a day and now it happens roughly once a week. Did you happen to use Bluetooth more in the apartment by chance?
- zokier 11y agoHuh, this thread has been quite an eyeopener, the stuff people put up with.
- dharma1 11y agophones need to load a lot of stuff a boot time - this fast boot times are achieved by stripping a hell of a lot of stuff out
- listic 11y agoI would love to have a phone with a hell of a lot of stuff stripped out. I guess manufacturers don't.
- icebraining 11y agoSure they do, they're called "feature phones". Wiko sells some decent dual-sim models for $20.
- listic 11y agoI have included "feature phones" in my original comment. None boot close to 1 second, and these, too, include a lot of functionality that I would like stripped out.
- icebraining 11y agoMy $20 Wiko Lubi does boot in a second, or barely more (not counting PIN input, I don't know if it's booting the background), and I can't complain about having too much functionality.
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoIt takes a second or two to use my lockscreen, so with some prioritisation that should mean that the lockscreen can show early giving the system more time to boot but also feeling more responsive. KDE used to load a session in the background when the login screen showed so that you didn't then have to wait after logging in. On Android without root the system seems to use a ton of resources on background jobs that aren't needed; I imagine that slows boot too.
- oblio 11y agoMore importantly: why aren't TVs doing it? TVs should be turned off completely when you press the button, to save power. After that almost all smart TV boot up quite slowly. Which is sad :(
- Retra 11y agoMy GF's Samsung smart tv has to update at least once per week when you power it on. There're regular warnings for service unavailability. It spends time logging on each time you start it. Sometimes it won't even turn on when you press the button. It's a completely awful machine. I'd honestly rather have a CRT.
- illegalsmile 11y agoCan you not turn off the smart functionality and updates to use it as a monitor/traditional TV?
- Retra 11y agoI'm not sure the Netflix/Hulu/HBO Go applications would work if we did that.
- xanderstrike 11y agoThe simple answer: Because phones are always-on devices. Rebooting your phone is an uncommon use case, so it's not optimized.