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. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > That awkward moment when you're at a friends house, and their > parents > start screaming at them...And you're just, like, there. > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 > > 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 > > -- > > > > -- > > > -- > > --
