Restart every n days

[grvthang]

I reboot about twice a week, as I do on my PC. I usually do it before I jump in the shower (I shower more frequently than that, however lol).
And there have been three occasions since I bought the phone (December 31) where the phone crashed to the point where i had to perform a battery pull. That happened when I was trying to do too many things at once with not enough available device memory (like others here, I see noticeable performance issues when it goes below 50MB free).

 

[mandable]

The only time I reboot is when my phone seems a bit sluggish (I don't know if it helps much, but it makes me feel better). It doesn't happen very often though...

 

[jkmailley]

Is there any way to remove bloatware from start-up when you reboot your phone? I don't want to remove them from the phone, only from the start-up.

 

[Casey25]

Hey guys pretty new to the forum, but ive been reading them for awhile. I've been turning my phone off every night before i go to bed in hopes that i wont drain alot of battery before the morning. Is that a bad idea? any thoughts?

 

[Extodus]

Instead of turning it off, I charge it every night.

 

[Casey25]

I guess that is the more logical thing to do hahaha however do we have to worry about the battery wearing out from charging it every night even if its not completely drained? I always get mixed answers on this.

 

[Extodus]

I guess that's debatable. My assumption is that batteries are advanced enough now that it's not necessary to let it go dead before charging it. I think that idea is outdated.

 

[nkk]

I guess that is the more logical thing to do hahaha however do we have to worry about the battery wearing out from charging it every night even if its not completely drained? I always get mixed answers on this.

No. Lithium batteries like partial charges. If you look at the specs, they say they have n charge cycles. However, if you go from about 50% to 100% battery, it is not 1 cycle. The stress put on the battery in terms of salt build up on the anode and cathode is about 1/2 that of a full charge. In the same way, going from 2/3 to full battery is about 1/3 of a charge in terms of stress. This stress of salt build up is the ONLY stress in the battery. So you can charge a battery rated at n cycles 5n times if you only charge it 20% per charge. What the n charge cycles means is n 0 to 100% cycles.

On a different note, with Lithium ion batteries, if you wash the Lithium salts off with water, you can reuse the battery. This is actually my research topic. Its really cool. The only probles is doing that without causing absurd amounts of hazardous waste or without wasting the chemicals in the battery. Additionaly, it is hard to reconnect the anode and cathode in the battery after the wash.

-Nkk

 

[smacky]

Depleting a Lithium-ion battery actually harms it and destroys a part of it everytime. This detracts from it's overall capacity and eventually you'll have a battery that dies within hours, no matter how you use it.

 

[odaxium]

I restart my phone everyday in the morning when I wake up. No particular reason

 

[razorclose]

I restart mine every day: when it's being particularly sluggish, battery gets really warm, or when I know I'm not going to receive a call/text in the next 15 min. or so.

 

[BlueDC2]

I do it all the time now, but that's only because of the bootanimations. Sometimes I just like to pretend I have a nexus one haha.

Before that I did it once every few days.

 

[The_shake_down]

I do it every few days for the heck of it.

 

[smacky]

My phone's been going for 220 hours and 46 minutes. Still running smooth as hell.

Hats off to ATK.

 

[Ryobi]

I just booted my Eris out the back door. I do it daily (mainly because it's a POS).

 

[smacky]

Install ATK. I promise it will change things. Put the widget icon on your Home screen and tap it once to clear everything. Phone lasts forever and has yet to lag to a frustrating degree. And I get frustrated very easily.

As I mentioned, 200+ hours without a reset. Which means it's been golden for me, never screwing up once for me.



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