I could be wrong, but I agree that some terms may be being confused here. I do not believe the settings menu allows you to do the same as holding the home and power button and just rebooting. I think that reset referrs to reloading everything which will take a lot longer and be much different than rebooting or what might be termed a hard reset. I have always wondered if in some way I might be incorrect, but I believe that the pressing of the power button five or six times just crashes part of the OS causing it to reboot in response? It does do less of a complete reboot than if you actually do it by turning the phone off or the shortcut that turns it off and restarts it automatically when you hold the home and power buttons down. I have never found anything documented about the pressing of the power button five or six times and I really think that just crashes the springboard and it restarts itself in response. I have done it a time or two, but methods like that make me nervous. Along with being undocumented, some of the affects may also be undocumented!
On 5/2/12, Raul A. Gallegos <r...@raulgallegos.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm thinking that the term "reset" and "reboot" and "restore" may be > used interchangeably or incorrectly. Resetting your phone is done from > the Settings App. This can involve setting the icons to alphabetical > order, or it can involve totally wiping your phone as if it was new. > This is also called Restoring. Don't you love all these terms? Now if > your phone is acting strange, or not responding, then rebooting might be > in order. Some people will say there is a soft and a hard reboot. I > really don't know which is which, but pressing the sleep button for 5 or > 6 times quickly seems to reboot it rather quickly. So maybe this is a > soft reboot? If you do what you are asking about, where you press sleep > and home at the same time for about 10 to 15 seconds, it reboots and > takes a bit longer to come up. Hard reboot maybe? > > I haven't googled anything I said here, so if I'm totally wrong, I'm > sure I'll be corrected. > > Good luck. > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He > may not seem such a good friend after telling. ~ Arthur Brisbane > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > On 5/2/2012 8:31 PM, Debbie April Yuille wrote: >> What kind of reset does the power button and the Home button perform? >> >> Debbie >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of fred olver >> Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2012 8:38 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Other way to reset phone >> >> Yes, go in to the settings menu and do it from there. >> >> Fred Olver >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Danny Leung"<dlng321.mob...@gmail.com> >> To:<viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 5:08 PM >> Subject: Other way to reset phone >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Can some one tell me what Is another way to do a reset of the phone? >>> >>> The power button of my Iphone 4 does not seem like working, no respond >>> when >>> I tried to press it. It can be a hardware problem. But the phone is >>> still >>> working fine. So, if I cannot use that button together with the home >>> button >>> to reset the phone, is there another way to do it? >>> >>> Many thanks in advance for all the respond. >>> >>> Danny >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
