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It's an amazing piece of braindead UI that holding down the power button for ~5 seconds on an Android phone triggers a reboot, even on a locked screen. Apparent
by coldpie 10y ago
It's an amazing piece of braindead UI that holding down the power button for ~5 seconds on an Android phone triggers a reboot, even on a locked screen. Apparently no one at Google carries items other than a phone in their pockets.
- annoying_tech 10y agoIt's 10 seconds. And my PC does it too, and my 3DS, and my MP4 player,... I don't know how much stuff you carry with you, but with my 5'5" phone doesn't reboot with my keys on my pocket.
- coldpie 10y agoI'm a Type 1 Diabetic, so I carry a tube of glucose tablets with me at all times, about an inch in diameter of hard plastic. If the buttons on the phone are facing the tube, and I squat down to look at something or whatever for 10 seconds, things shift around such that the power button gets held and my phone reboots. Awesome.
- digi_owl 10y agoIt varies a bit between brands but usually fall between 5 and 10 seconds.
- tdkl 10y agoAnd that's probably because they don't want to include the Reboot option in the power menu [1]. [1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/02/sony-is-trying-to-push-a-power-menu-restart-option-to-aosp-as-a-developer-setting/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/02/sony-is-trying-to-pu...
- anonova 10y agoThis was added in 7.1: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/19/android-7-1-feature-spotlight-nexus-devices-and-pixel-c-get-a-restart-option-in-the-power-menu/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/19/android-7-1-feature-...
- ajross 10y agoNo, it's because the device requires a hard power cycle command that bypasses the running OS and is guaranteed to cycle the other controllers and hardware on the SoC. I'm certain the iPhone has something very similar. On the devices I've worked with, that button handling is done by the power management silicon and not by software at all.
- macrael 10y agoiOS long used a two button combo.
- distances 10y agoA hardware reboot is a must. Every phone without a removable battery simply has to have one; otherwise a reboot for non-responsive device would mean leaving it on until battery is drained and then recharging it back.
- artursapek 10y agoYou just gave me nostalgia... I miss my old Blackberry
- gohrt 10y agoSure, but hardware reboot can be a button in the paperclip slot, not the main power button.
- tempestn 10y agoExcept then you're screwed if your phone bricks while you're out somewhere without a paperclip or similar implement. Holding down the power button for X seconds seems a far simpler and more user friendly solution. (Although I'm obviously in the camp that has never had my power button held down by something in my pocket for 10 seconds. Tough to imagine that happening.)
- nradov 10y agoThat's yet another reason why every phone should have a removable battery.