Do you reboot phone

[saptech]

I was wondering, after some updates to apps, is it a good idea to restart the phone or not? Are there anytime when you should restart the phone/turn off?

I usually leave my phone on unless it locks or act very strange.

Just curious mostly.

 

[alextop30]

I would say if your phone starts acting wonky than restart it but if it behaves the same after the installing the app than before. I don't think it is necessary to restart after you install apps except that is rooted and you are going to try installing a from the from manager then the procedure involves restart and other things.

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[TheBrit]

In a perfect world you should never have to restart your phone...the world is not perfect.

I occasionally restart but never more than once a week. When I used Windows Mobile it was every day.

 

[mikedt]

I would say if your phone starts acting wonky than restart it but if it behaves the same after the installing the app than before.

Same here, after all this is Android not Windows.

 

[linuxrich]

Incessant rebooting is a strictly Windows thing. Linux devices including Android shouldn't need rebooting anywhere near as often as a Microsoft PC for example. Having said that, unless your phone is rooted you may not have the required access to fix issues without the very occasional reboot.

Uptime on my SGS2, 15 days.

 

[valorian]

I don't reboot after installing a new app. I will reboots after installing a new theme or if the phone isn't acting right.

 

[bioforce]

I've only ever had to reboot my phone manually one time. Other then that it only reboots for system updates and stuff. I've gone 67 days up time before.

 

[pool_shark]

I have tasker reboot my phone 3 days per week.
Rebooting regularly is not just for Windows.
I have several AIX servers at work that reboot weekly just to make Oracle happy by clearing memory and paging space.
Some apps refuse to return the memory it used during lengthy processing, even in Unix.

 

[Crashdamage]

I have tasker reboot my phone 3 days per week.
Rebooting regularly is not just for Windows.
I have several AIX servers at work that reboot weekly just to make Oracle happy by clearing memory and paging space.
Some apps refuse to return the memory it used during lengthy processing, even in Unix.

Sounds like buggy software not handling memory properly, not a Unix fault. Rebooting should not normally be necessary. I once had a Red Hat mail server that ran 2 1/2 years perfectly without rebooting. No telling how long it could've gone but the CPU fan seized.

 

[Kicksilver]

I never do.

 

[pool_shark]

Sounds like buggy software not handling memory properly, not a Unix fault. Rebooting should not normally be necessary. I once had a Red Hat mail server that ran 2 1/2 years perfectly without rebooting. No telling how long it could've gone but the CPU fan seized.

I also have servers that have been up for years.
We can't re-write Oracle, informatica, cognos, websphere, etc.
I didn't say Unix was the problem, but a reboot of Unix is necessary to resolve the issue.
Windows isn't the problem either, it's the apps.

 

[Rush]

I was wondering, after some updates to apps, is it a good idea to restart the phone or not? Are there anytime when you should restart the phone/turn off?

I usually leave my phone on unless it locks or act very strange.

Just curious mostly.

I reboot/restart my device every night before going to bed. It seems to make it work without glitches. These high-end devices are mini-computer, that needs to be reboot/restart occasionally.

 

[jonas55]

I've only ever had to reboot my phone manually one time. Other then that it only reboots for system updates and stuff. I've gone 67 days up time before.

thank you

 

[indybail]

Rebooting is like a colonic, sometimes you gotta do whattcha gotta do. Afterwards everything seem to move along more smoothly.

 

[PsyCrow]

I switch my phone off overnight to save the battery.

 

[saptech]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Since this is my first time using any smartphone, I was just curious about how Android works.

I'm familar with Linux/Unix hardly ever needing rebooting, I'm a linux guy myself. The longest my desktop system lasted was around 45 days without rebooting until a thunder storm came and killed the power...lol

I try not to restart the phone often unless somethings screwy is going on, but as others have said, it doesn't hurt every once in awhile either.

Thnx.

 

[Kicksilver]

I switch my phone off overnight to save the battery.

You might aswell try putting it in airplane mode.