Poll: Why do you restart your iPhone?

[SmartAlx]

We all know that you should restart your iPhone at least once a week. But do you restart your iPhone according to a schedule, or do you restart it because something screwy has gone wrong?

[dturner]

I restart mine everyday. I like to think this is one reason why I have never had the serious lag,crashes, and other problems you see here on the forum. The phone is like a mini computer and restarting it just makes everything "fresh" again.
Just my opinion.

[paa79594]

When I don't get reception where I should be. When text messages should send and they don't. When SMS starts to get laggy. When apps freeze.

[OJsakila]

I owned a hp ipaq and had to reboot that POS every hour! I really only restart when I see some lag....
.It would proberly be technically healthier if I rebooted daily but don't really see the need. Every other day at most...I'm jailbroken on a 3g 16g 2.1 firmware

[SmartAlx]

Dag NAB it! I knew I would want to add another poll question.

I restart my iPhone every day (or more often) and it STILL acts screwy.

Is there a way for me to add that one to the poll or is it too late?

[BazookaAce]

i reboot my iPhone when things are getting laggy and apps are crashing. But if i'm bored or something i reboot before things goes to hell. (if i remember)

[showguy]

I restart mine everyday. I like to think this is one reason why I have never had the serious lag,crashes, and other problems you see here on the forum. The phone is like a mini computer and restarting it just makes everything "fresh" again.
Just my opinion.

I do the same.

[gotzaiPhone]

I used to do a hard restart every time the thing slowed down, but I've read that doing that all the time is not as good as shutting it off and then turning it back on.... so....

I only hard restart when the phone is locked up and before I do that, I always try the 10 second hold the home button thing to force close the app first. I will turn the phone off and on again when I notice that its getting laggy. But to be honest, since I've been doing the on/off more than the hard reset, I've noticed that I've had to do everything less.

[projectdarkside]

I also do the 10 second home force close thing first then if that doesnt help with the lag, then I will just reboot the phone and that will usually fix any problem that I may have had lag/crash wise:wink:
-But normally I will reboot my iPhone in the morning and evening to catch any lag or problems that may occur so they can "nipped in the bud" and not lag at moments in which I would really need to get something done :)

[Saverino]

I only restart when apps start to crash, or lag builds up. For my phone, that's once a day.
When stock I never need to restart it.

[projectdarkside]

I wonder what percentage of iPhone users are jailbroken:wink:

[acosmichippo]

i've left my iphone on for weeks on-end without any issues... and other times, i'll have to restart it two or three times in a day.

more of the latter lately, though.

[psylichon]

Twice a day is my new standard. I'm jailbroken.

I just choose times when I don't need to use my phone for a minute. It happens at least twice a day.

[jarofclay73]

I reboot when I feel like the system is taxed or before a really processor intensive program that I really need not to crash.

[Saverino]

I wonder what percentage of iPhone users are jailbroken:wink:

A better question would be, "What percentage of Apple Employees are jailbroken?" :wink:

[Youngbinks]

I usually restart mine every few days or more often as deemed necessary by the phone.

[miggs1310]

every night before bed - plug iphone into wall charger, then turn it off.

[connie]

I guess I have been really lucky with this iphone, I haven't had that many problems where I have to restart. Maybe after I jailbreak but honestly, I never restart mine and I really don't have any problems or see a difference enough to do this. My phone works great and the only time it restarts is when I have let the battery die which also is not too often.

[TarekElsakka]

I only restart it when it starts acting weird, WiFi becomes slow, and applications take long to close (longer than the usual).

[x986]

Didn't know you were supposed to, and didn't know how to do it. Thanks forum

[glsda]

Maybe once a week if it starts acting screwy.

[Swagger]

I restart several times in a week (like more than there are days in a week) because of Safari crashing constantly. Almost every update Apple has put out has addressed the Safari crashes but they still haven't gotten it quite correct yet. Heck my browser crashed five minutes after updating to 2.2. I thought to myself well there's always the next update to hope for a true fix. The crashing really is annoying at times. I cannot for the life of me figure out why in all Apple's greatness can't they fix this. I sometimes wonder did Apple load Safari on top of Microsoft's Internet Explorer??? M

[Ezekiel2517]

technically, i also restart when it runs out of battery....

[psylichon]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why in all Apple's greatness can't they fix this. I sometimes wonder did Apple load Safari on top of Microsoft's Internet Explorer??? M

Has anyone else gotten mobile web browsing down better or more stable? It is no trivial thing taking an environment we're used to experiencing on hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than the hardware in our phones, and squeezing it down to something that actually works on the small screen. I think, considering all the improvements they've already made, and the poor competition from the rest of the market in this regard, Apple is on schedule with the current state of the art in mobile web browsing.

[Swagger]

Has anyone else gotten mobile web browsing down better or more stable? It is no trivial thing taking an environment we're used to experiencing on hardware that is orders of magnitude faster than the hardware in our phones, and squeezing it down to something that actually works on the small screen. I think, considering all the improvements they've already made, and the poor competition from the rest of the market in this regard, Apple is on schedule with the current state of the art in mobile web browsing.

I totally agree with you Dave. I just had the feeling that if any company would have "cracked the nut' by now it would have been apple. I can't help but wonder is the lack of flash at the root of Safari's issues. Usually browsing is pretty stable until navigating to a flash intensive web page.

I am sure that in the next couple of years mobile browsers crashing won't be an issue any longer. With the phone wars of late and more and more people owning intelligent mobile devices. Companies are in a mad dash to develop mobile friendly sites. I was impressed to see the other day that WAMU has finaily created a mobile site (well put together also). Pretty amazing for a bank that failed and was taken over. At least they didn't abandon their IT. Mark

[SmartAlx]

Has anyone else gotten mobile web browsing down better or more stable?
Stable???? ARE YOU SERIOUS????? The browsing experience on other devices might not be as slick as the iPhone one, but do those other phones' browsers crash every 3, 4, or 5 minutes? I am NOT exaggerating.

I have NEVER EVER EVER seen ANY improvement from 1.0 to 1.1.3 all the way up to 2.2 on 4 iPhones. Not one single "improvement" has improved the crash issue.

I have two friends with iPhones. One doesn't experience crashes, the other does. But the one who doesn't experience crashes doesn't rely on his device to do much. He barely installs any apps. He rarely goes online. Mostly what he does is check his email and occasionally look at a google map. My other friend hasn't installed many apps either and he doesn't read email on the iPhone, but he browses constantly all day long. He is constantly complaining about browser crashes.

The way it seems to me is that the only way you can keep from experiencing crash after crash after crash is if you don't use your phone that much.

I wonder if the rare Opera developer who has Opera running on the iPhone experiences browser crashes. I'll bet not. Opera has an extremely small footprint. I'm sure it runs much smoother than Safari.

[greenjbhsd]

I voted for when the phone is acting screwy. Really that means I reboot about every 3rd day, roughly.

[projectdarkside]

Yeah as a matter of fact Im gonna restart my iPhone right now:wink:

[fury]

I haven't had to in quite a while. The last time was when TapDefense didn't start up, a few days ago. Before that, I can't remember.

[psylichon]

Now that I've realized that a respring gets rid of jailbreak lag just as effectively as a reboot, I'll be doing the latter much less often.

[iksn]

Stable???? ARE YOU SERIOUS????? The browsing experience on other devices might not be as slick as the iPhone one, but do those other phones' browsers crash every 3, 4, or 5 minutes? I am NOT exaggerating.

I have NEVER EVER EVER seen ANY improvement from 1.0 to 1.1.3 all the way up to 2.2 on 4 iPhones. Not one single "improvement" has improved the crash issue.

I have two friends with iPhones. One doesn't experience crashes, the other does. But the one who doesn't experience crashes doesn't rely on his device to do much. He barely installs any apps. He rarely goes online. Mostly what he does is check his email and occasionally look at a google map. My other friend hasn't installed many apps either and he doesn't read email on the iPhone, but he browses constantly all day long. He is constantly complaining about browser crashes.

The way it seems to me is that the only way you can keep from experiencing crash after crash after crash is if you don't use your phone that much.

I wonder if the rare Opera developer who has Opera running on the iPhone experiences browser crashes. I'll bet not. Opera has an extremely small footprint. I'm sure it runs much smoother than Safari.

I use my browser all the time. It is stable. I have seen some improvement on each update, but 2.2 was by far the best. I am not a fanboy..........

[benhur99ph]

I just experienced my first iPhone hang since buying it (I had it for 5 days now -- still not jailbroken). It happened when I was using Safari. I haven't restarted my phone since I bought it and I have already installed 26 apps so maybe that's the reason. It became unresponsive and I had to do the hard reboot thing where you hold the sleep and home button simultaneously.

Hope it doesn't happen again though, that's why I'm opting to restart my iPhone once a day, at night preferably before going to sleep (like the others here) to prevent lag build ups.

Personally I found web browsing the iPhone fun as compared to the other handhelds that I have used. I am really fond of those sites that have a special site just for the iphone. Browsing them sure is fast. In my opinion, experiencing bugs and crashes when surfing websites which are meant for desktops/laptops is understandable.

[glsda]

I restart my iPhone on an irregular schedule, when I think of it about 2 to 3 times a week and when it throws a tantrum.