Hi David, as has already been stated, this is not a reboot, it is a crash. The springboard (which is analogous to the explorer.exe process in Windows) crashes when you do this, meaning that it automatically reloads--but it's not a full system reboot. If the explorer.exe process crashes on your PC, it will reload without your having to reboot the PC first. It is like that.
It is not as though every few seconds the iPhone starts updating a system file or updating part of the firmware. The iPhone is pretty locked down in that respect. I'm not trying to sound skeptical or disbelieving, but has your friend actually seen this happen or is it just his theory? If there is one platform that is pretty locked down and safe from non hardware-related system crashes, it's the iPhone. Unless you jailbreak, or cut the power while updating the firmware--something along those lines, you should be fine from a software point of view. Even if you do one of those things, you should be able simply to restore in iTunes. All this is not to say that we should take our iPhones for granted; absolutely not. But I did just want to give some perspective on this. Grant On 5/30/12, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > According to someone who I consider to be knowledgeable in such things, this > sort of reboot immediately stops all processes. If the iPhone should happen > to be accessing the core OS at the time, it could cause a corruption in the > particular code being accessed. He said the odds are extremely low, but he > will not use such methods with his iPhone. That is good enough for me. I > have never had a problem getting my iPhone to reboot holding the home and > power buttons for 12 seconds. This is the method Apple recommends if turning > the phone off and on doesn't work. > > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 31/05/2012, at 14:51, Woody Anna Dresner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Pressing the Sleep-Wake button on my iPHone 4S 5 times does cause it to >> reset more quickly than a regular reset. I use this procedure when Siri >> goes into that state where it won't respond when I press the Home button. >> Someone on the list mentioned this procedure a few months ago, and I've >> found it quite effective. Is there really a chance of it causing >> corruption of some kind? >> >> Best, >> Anna >> >> >> >> On May 30, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Moop Curran wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> A trick is to press the sleep wake button on the ipod five times quickly, >>> it should reset itself, and probably won't studder anymore. >>> Courtney >>> On May 30, 2012, at 6:17 PM, adrian wrote: >>> >>>> is it normal for voice over to stutter a lot? every time i read using >>>> voice over i find it stutters a lot. does any one know of a way i can >>>> fix it? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/[email protected]/. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> 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/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> 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/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
