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How Often Do You Reboot Your Desire?

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richcowell

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This is just out of curiosity...

I take the same stance with my mobiles as I do with my PCs, that is, leaving them as long as possible before rebooting...

The Uptime Widget has been a great way of seeing exactly how long it's been since I rebooted... Showing the current uptime, and longest uptime... Since I installed it some time ago, my record is 12D 21H 46M, though it doesn't give statistics, my average is probably about 8 days...http://market.android.com/search?q=...lieid="2" class="inlineimg" />rg.jtb.utwidget

http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:org.jtb.utwidget
 
I usually turn it off every other day or so, but currently I've had it on for about 16 days now. No issues, no slowdown or anything.
 
My phone is pretty optimised, i think it can go on forever. But i always advise non-rooted owners to reboot one a week just to keep things fresh.
 
I normally reboot my Desire every couple of weeks. There is no real reason for the reboot but I just like to do it in order to avoid any possibility of memory leaks impacting on performance.
 
I turn mine off overnight, why would I leave it on? That's just a waste of battery unless you use it as an alarm or something?
 
Every 2nd or 3rd phone call my Desire seems to crash. I get a horrible buzzing and the screen freezes. It then either reboots on its own or I remove the battery.

So it depends how popular I am I guess!
 
I do use mine as an alarm clock, and have alarms set every day... I've never turned mine off at night, I don't use a landline, so like to be available in emergencies...

@Lekky - why do you advise non-rooted users specifically? Mine's not rooted, I used the Goldcard method to debrand/upgrade to 2.2, but don't think it's rootable yet.
 
I only reboot if there's an issue with the phone. Eg, I copied some mp3s to it yesterday for the first time (new phone) and the Music app was showing "no music." Rebooted and it all appeared.
 
usually about once a week, but If ive been trying out a few new apps or have removed something, I may reboot to clear any files and caches that dont get removed through /settings. It can be as much as twice in a day in that case.
 
There's only one of my apps that states that it needs rebooting after an update - Setting Profiles - it's been updated a few times, but other than that I just reboot if I notice any performance issues, which is rare...
 
I normally switch mine off each night when I go to bed, but if I'm working away from home it stays on all the time in case my missus gives me a distress call in the night.
 
richcowell said:
I do use mine as an alarm clock, and have alarms set every day... I've never turned mine off at night, I don't use a landline, so like to be available in emergencies...

@Lekky - why do you advise non-rooted users specifically? Mine's not rooted, I used the Goldcard method to debrand/upgrade to 2.2, but don't think it's rootable yet.
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Non rooted users do not have the level of control and optimisation that we rooted users have.

Realistically, I personally recommend all smartphones should be periodically rebooted. Cant speak for lekky obviously. But if rooted, it can be less frequently.
 
partridge said:
I turn mine off overnight, why would I leave it on? That's just a waste of battery unless you use it as an alarm or something?
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I do use mine as an alarm but not charging it every night doesn't really achieve anything so i would leave it on anyway.

I probably reboot mine every few days due to an messing things up. Rebooted just now because Last.fm has been scrobbling the same track all day...
 
Off topic vu I use hullomail for voicemail. It saves as mp3. Scroble Droid kept scrobbling my voicemails.then after a factory reset, I had a voicemail as my ringtone. That was odd, when that happened
 
Last time was about 4 days ago when I reflashed a patch. Apart from modding, probably every few weeks. I live in good coverage and don't do social networking, so overnight power drain is trivial, so it's when/if I feel it's getting a bit clogged up. I'm pretty moderate/conservative by local standards, but I'd still say that most of my reboots are when I reflash rather than because of operational problems. It's a very stable device really - the laptop I'm typing this on has been up for 2 weeks, and if I could leave off tweaking I'm sure my desire would match it easily.
 
I guess im the only one here who reboots twice a day..cause it slows down to a point when I type or scroll it jus lags :/
 
StevenChap said:
I guess im the only one here who reboots twice a day..cause it slows down to a point when I type or scroll it jus lags :/
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That's not the phone hardware, it's a badly written app with a memory leak or other issue causing lag. Are you using a task killer? (they suck)

I don't reboot or turn off the phone because I use it for alarms, meeting alerts, events, etc. My Desire has been on for 3 weeks straight without a reboot, no hiccups or issue of any kind. The only reason I reboot is for an update. I have no slowdown or lag and everything runs better and faster than a fresh reboot, which I find a reboot actually slows things down as the cache is cleared and the CPU has to reload each app's data again. I know it doesn't take long for the phone to cache data and run as fast as possible, but running for weeks straight certainly doesn't slow things down for me.
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