A Battery Pull Simulation App??

I came from a blackberry storm so I know what you are talking about. I have a droid and I can just hold the power button to cycle my phone... Hope this helps.

 

That's how you do it. Does not get easier that this, so no point in making an app.

 

I've locked up my phone so bad that holding the power button didn't shut off the phone either. However, if it gets that bad, I don't see how any application is going to be able to be launched in order to simulate a battery pull.

 

on the g1 you can do this.


It's two steps

1. Press and hold "MENU" button.

2. While pressing and holding menu, now press and hold BOTH the CALL and END keys at the same time. The phone will instantly reboot.

It seems to work best if you start by holding the menu button, doesn't work as well if you try to press all 3 a the same time.


This method has always worked for me without fail, even when the phone is lagging and having other major issues where I can't get it to respond normally.

 

I'm with you freebirds87, the whole purpose of an app is so that we don't have to turn the droid off and back on again. the app does that when i am alseep!

quickpull does exactly that for the blackberry.

 

Great tip! It works on the Hero. I will try it next time I'm locked up for some reason.

 

Magic

Great to know if i ever need it

 

There is an application called Power Off that allows you to schedule power off/ reboot times.

The only thing is you need root for it to work.

I really do not see the point of doing the reboots though. With BBs it was necessary as they had memory leaksthat ate RAM. With android there is no need to do the reboot.

 

Don't you guys use PINcodes on the SIM card? If I reboot the phone, I will have to manually enter the pincode for the SIM card and nothing else can be done. No data transfer either. So, powercycling requires user intervention anyway...

 

I do not use PIN, not for the past 4 years.

 

I also do not have the pin code activated. I don't see the point, especially as I go into airplane mode every night so putting in the pin every morning got a bit tedious. If someone steels my phone I would lock the phone down with Wavesecure and stop the SIM through my provider.

 

There is really no point to reset the device when it is not in use. You almost had to this with BlackBerries due to memory issues, but Android has no issues with this. It's a hard thing to realize (I came from a BlackBerry Tour myself), but Android is much, much better at managing its memory.