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> How often do you have to restart your phone? A couple of times a year maybe? Me? Like once a month at least, probably twice. Could be as frequent as multiple

> How often do you have to restart your phone? A couple of times a year maybe? Me? Like once a month at least, probably twice. Could be as frequent as multiple times in an hour. Just depends on the reason. It could include anything from "battery ran out before I charged" (a few times a year maybe) to "my phone is crashing/behaving erratically" (could be every few weeks) to "Android didn't refresh its MTP database live and won't show the file I added till I reboot" (could be from 5 mins ago). Not an exhaustive set, just listing a few examples. > I wonder if it would have been more successful in phones actually. Interesting idea. Maybe? I wonder how much the performance improvement would be for the end-user.

NavinF 4y ago
Ok that's not common by any means. Maybe a custom ROM or a new phone is in order? Personally I reboot my iphone once a year. It also reboots overnight every 3 months or so for software updates, but that's often not observable because apps restore their state.
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- dataflow 4y ago
  > Ok that's not common by any means. Pretty sure it's not uncommon on Android for people to reboot every couple weeks or so: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/prdfpf/how_often_do_you_re_start_your_phone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/prdfpf/how_often... > Maybe a custom ROM or a new phone is in order? Not due to the above (the reboot need isn't frequent enough to bother me), but for other reasons, possibly? It's not high priority for me but I've been thinking about it. Thing is, I love my phone otherwise. An insane amount of resources go into making hardware like this, and the planet's already trashed enough as is; I hate throwing out hardware that works fine just for random software glitches I can easily put up with. >Personally I reboot my iphone once a year. Maybe iPhone is better about this?
- Const-me 4y ago
  > that's not common by any means Pretty common, I second the GP. > I reboot my iphone once a year. I wonder how many times per year the phone reboots by itself to install OS updates?
  - NavinF 4y ago
    I literally answered that in the next sentence after looking up the iOS release log.
- anonymousDan 4y ago
  Huh? I probably reboot my phone once a week at least. I would argue once a year is far from normal.

NavinF 4y ago

Ok that's not common by any means. Maybe a custom ROM or a new phone is in order? Personally I reboot my iphone once a year. It also reboots overnight every 3 months or so for software updates, but that's often not observable because apps restore their state.

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dataflow 4y ago
> Ok that's not common by any means. Pretty sure it's not uncommon on Android for people to reboot every couple weeks or so: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/prdfpf/how_often_do_you_re_start_your_phone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/prdfpf/how_often... > Maybe a custom ROM or a new phone is in order? Not due to the above (the reboot need isn't frequent enough to bother me), but for other reasons, possibly? It's not high priority for me but I've been thinking about it. Thing is, I love my phone otherwise. An insane amount of resources go into making hardware like this, and the planet's already trashed enough as is; I hate throwing out hardware that works fine just for random software glitches I can easily put up with. >Personally I reboot my iphone once a year. Maybe iPhone is better about this?
Const-me 4y ago
> that's not common by any means Pretty common, I second the GP. > I reboot my iphone once a year. I wonder how many times per year the phone reboots by itself to install OS updates?
- NavinF 4y ago
  I literally answered that in the next sentence after looking up the iOS release log.
anonymousDan 4y ago
Huh? I probably reboot my phone once a week at least. I would argue once a year is far from normal.