Powering Down = Quicker G1

[Clegacy]

Whenever my G1 starts running sluggish, I've found that turning it off and then back on will bring it back to speed. It's almost become a weekly thing now. I used to have to do this a lot with my Wing, but there was a soft reset button which made it much easier.

[MobileMan]

I used to have to do this with my Dash. I hope this doesnt become second nature for me on my G1.

[White97Jimmy]

I found out the same thing. I do it once a day just to keep things running fast. At least it's not like my BlackBerries that take like 3 min just to start up.

[Cranky Bear]

I have had the same issue. I wish they'd do something about this. I think this goes back to the whole issue of "this ain't Microsoft, you don't need to shut down apps." I say, YES YOU DO! I don't know if it's due to the individual apps having poor memory management, or the Android logic that manages apps in general, but I'm not convinced that the general application management is as magically non-Windows as everyone says it is. There are times where I try to go back to my home screen and have to wait 30 seconds for the icons to appear. At the very least, give us an app that will allow us to manually view and KILL apps. I know there are a couple of apps that allow us to view them, but no kill functionality yet.

[NismoG35]

I use to do this 3 times a day with my dash. The sad part about it is after a while it would take 3-5 mins to completly start up!.

I do this sometimes with my G phone. The soft reset keys are Call button + menu key+ end button. Your screen should dim and 3-5 secs later your phone should reboot.

[DesignDawg]

The soft reset keys are Call button + menu key+ end button. Your screen should dim and 3-5 secs later your phone should reboot.

Nice to know. INSTANT. Very cool.

[MrGibbage]

I think I may have a program that isn't behaving quite nicely as I do sometimes see that my phone starts acting sluggish too. Speciffically, the window shade comes down in two or three distinct steps rather than a smooth fluid motion. Same for switching screens from the left or right. End even scrolling around in the market get's really slow. When I start seeing that, I reboot.

[divestoclimb]

I have the same problem. Could it be some program's background service?

[CJ Chitwood]

I'm surprised it took this long for a thread to come up about it. It's a computer. Doesn't matter what operating system you use, if your apps have crappy resource management they're going to eventually use it all up. Further, they have to make good use of the utilities the kernel provides to the applications. When they don't, you wind up with apps leaving garbage behind...

...which is funny, because these are all basically Java apps, and Java is supposed to have some of the best garbage collection out there, or at least, that's what my professors taught me in CIS.

I agree though with the argument that we shouldn't have to reboot the phone to keep it running fast. I also agree with the *fact* that we do. The problem here, IMHO, is the applications development. When you allow just about anyone to post their apps and you limit the amount of moderation you put into it, you get the tradeoff of quality for quantity (be sure to try the G1 if you can't do simple math and need a tip calculator). A lot of devs put up crap apps and a few devs put up high quality apps. The crap apps have poor use of resources and the good apps will run forever and you'll hardly notice them.

It's really just like any other computer, too: the more stuff you put on it, the higher your chances of getting crap apps on it. If you can avoid the crap apps, you'll avoid constant needs for reboots.


The children posting their "thoughts" in the comments of [Android] market though don't help... I'm surprised more devs haven't run off back to other more mature [demographic] markets to do code for e.g. iPhone, WiMo, etc. Ultimately, Google could devote a few more resources toward cleaning house around the market, getting rid of trash apps after testing them out, but IDK... maybe they need more people to uninstall apps and select the "defective/malicious" option. I have seen a couple of apps disappear from Market, but I'm not sure why.

Looking at my stats now, I rebooted 37 and a half hours ago and only have 7 services and 15 tasks running ATM, and System Monitor tells me my CPU is between 15% and 40% used at any given time, while playing MP3s. My 96MB of memory is 71MB used. Out of "Storage", 248 MB total, 127 MB used. So I'm probably about average I think, and I've been noticing only mildly irritating pauses now and then. FWIW. YMMV.

[kaysesoze]

I use to do this 3 times a day with my dash. The sad part about it is after a while it would take 3-5 mins to completly start up!.

I do this sometimes with my G phone. The soft reset keys are Call button + menu key+ end button. Your screen should dim and 3-5 secs later your phone should reboot.

Greatest tip posted so far, next to the trackball use while taking pictures..