Hello,
Officially, Apple gives two ways for rebooting the iOS device.
1) Fully shut down and then restart the device. When the device is responsive,
this is the recommended procedure.
2) When the device is unresponsive, or option 1 does not fully clear out the
problem, press and hold the power button and the home button together for 10
seconds. This creates a safe forced reboot.
The problem with crashing the springboard by pressing the power button 5 times
in rapid succession is that there is a slight chance of corrupting something
which is actively being accessed in memory during this procedure and one of the
reasons Apple does not recommend using this method. It is the closest method to
pulling the power chord from the wall whilst your desktop computer is
physically accessing the hard drive. Any sectors which are actively being
accessed may be corrupted or wiped.
I have purposely caused an app to be corrupted by crashing the springboard
using the 5 presses of the power button whilst loading the app. It was then
necessary to delete and then download the app to get it working again. Of
course, you can always perform a complete upgrade to correct such potential
problems. I prefer to remain safe and not spend the few hours rebuilding my
iPhone would require.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 20/08/2012, at 18:15, Mari solaunmarissa2...@gmail.com wrote:
Is pressing the home button 5 times really a safe option what are some other
solutions that anyone has? also what is re-spring?
On Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:11:39 PM UTC-7, Joshua wrote:
Hello. As far as I know, pressing the power button five times to
respring is quite safe. I have done it several times, and have
never had a problem. Also, its a lot quicker than rebooting the
device.
Another tip: You can also restart your springboard using siri.
To do this, just start Siri and say restart. Obviously, this
won't work if siri is frozen, but I figured some people may find
this interesting.
Josh
- Original Message -
From: Raul A. Gallegos ra...@raulgallegos.com
To: vip...@googlegroups.com
Date sent: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:32:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Siri freezing when using voiceover
Hello Josh, Siri can only officially work on iPhone 4S. Aso,
it's
questionable as to whether pressing the power/sleep button so
many times
is a safe respring.
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On 8/19/2012 11:13 PM, Joshua Klander wrote:
Hello. This is quite interesting. I guess this bug doesn't
just apply
to jailbroken iPhone 4 users. I recently installed Siri on my
iPhone 4,
and I have also noticed this bug. Unfortunately, I don't
believe there
is a permanent fix for this. When this happens, the way I
usually fix
it is by restarting the springboard. You can do this by quickly
pressing the power button five times in a row.
hth
Josh
- Original Message -
From: Marissa Solaun solaunma...@gmail.com
To: vip...@googlegroups.com
Date sent: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:35:16 -0700
Subject: Siri freezing when using voiceover
I am writing to find it if any other members have had issues
with Siri
Voiceover working together using the Iphone 4s? I use voiceover
constantly
however I have noticed that when using Siri with Voiceover
continuously
that
Voiceover will say listening and that Siri will freeze, no
tone will be
emitted to indicate that Siri is thinking. I do have hints
turned off on
Voiceover, and I guess if I needed to I could use Siri like a
sighted
individual but I would prefer to use the two accessibility
features
together. I am curious if this problems cause is specifically
do to
Siri or
Voiceover.
I have read that you can flick around the screen using Voiceover
while
pressing the volume up button and that sometimes will fix the
issue,
unfortunately I am not so lucky... A temporary fix I have come
across
is if
you turn on Airplane mode on/off it will reset the network and
that will
bring Siri back online. I did report this issue to Apple
Accessibility and
they will investigate the issue.
In the meantime if anyone has found a more permanent solution to
this
problem please do not hesitate to share.
Marissa
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