I use the home and power buttons when my IPod is unresponsive. Otherwise, to restart it if something's behaving strangely but not freezing its functions I do the following: press and hold power button until VO says "slide to power off". Once I power off, I wait a couple of seconds and then press and hold the power button again. I then wait a few minutes until VO comes up speaking.
HTH, Teresa "Visualize whirled peas." On May 31, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Grant Hardy wrote: > Hey Mike, again, this is one of the misconceptions going around: this is not > a reboot, not in the least. :) > > Cheers, > > Grant > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Cassidy" <[email protected] > To: <[email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 31 May 2012 23:17:39 +0100 > Subject: RE: Force rebooting of iPhone - Was Re: is it normal > > Hi, > > Power and home buttons held is the official way, is it not; it would seem > unwise to me to bash away repetitively at buttons in the hope that the poor > phone will re-boot in despair at the insult applied to it. > > Regards, > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Raul A. Gallegos > Sent: 31 May 2012 11:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Force rebooting of iPhone - Was Re: is it normal > > Hi all, I feel that what David and Neil have stated are more correct for > what it's worth. I personally have not looked up or researched whether or > not it's a good idea to force a reboot via the power button being pressed > multiple times, but on the surface it just seems silly and not safe to me. > At least when you do the power button/home button for 12 seconds, it's > giving the iOS system a chance to try and do what it can so that files and > data are not being accessed while the phone is forced to reboot. This is why > it's probably a several second process. > Additionally, it could be that it's on purpose so you don't accidentally > reboot your phone without meaning to. > > Lastly, folks, please update the subject lines. <smile > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. - George > Bush Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > On 5/31/2012 6:10 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > Hello Grant, > > My friend is some sort of developer. You can argue for crashing the > springboard all you want saying it will not corrupt any code. My friend says > there is a very slight chance that it could corrupt code. I prefer not to > take that chance. I have corrupted code in a pocket pc which then required > me to do a complete rebuild from my computer. As this takes time which I > prefer not to spend in such fashion, I choose not to take the chance. > > An Apple support person is the one who told me that the home and power > buttons simultaneously for 10 to 12 seconds reboots the phone and properly > restores the driver stacks. From my timing of both restarts, the reboot > takes longer for booting up than the power cycling for booting up. > > To be precise, the higher level support specialist told me to first turn > the iPhone off then on, and once it has come fully on, do the reboot. > > Sorry, but I trust both of these people over what you are saying on the > list. My developer friend is a software engineer. The Apple tech support > person was in the higher tier of support. > > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 31/05/2012, at 19:28, Grant Hardy<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Neil, the twelve-second holding down of HOME and POWER is a forced > reboot, rather like pressing the REBOOT button on a PC. If system > corruption could occur on an iPhone using the other method (which as > I've said I'm skeptical about), then it most certainly could occur > with the reboot method as well, which does not shut anything down. > > Crashing your springboard is not "a forced collapsing" of the iOS > platform; the springboard is one part of the iOS architecture. It's > the part of iOS from which apps are launched. It does not store any > critical user data. > > I think there are a fair few misconceptions about this topic on list. > I don't mean to be argumentative but it is important that people > understand them, and that if you have a theory (such as that data > corruption could occur) that you make clear that it is just that--a > theory. People who are stating this theory have relatively little > technical data to back it up--case and point, the "forced collapsing > of the iOS system" statement, which this is not. > > Warmly :) > > Grant > > > > On 5/31/12, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav<[email protected]> wrote: > Adrian, > > I agree very much with David's suggestions, the stuttering of Voice > Over is a classic symptom of an over full App Switcher and / or a > handset which is rarely power cycled. > > My strong recommendation for all iOS users, is to empty their App > Switcher daily and perform a power cycle immediately there after. > > This has kept my iPhone and iPad running smoothly ever since the > first stuttering symptoms appeared. > > In addition, as a system admin I also hold to David's assertion that > there is a possible chance of corruption by performing the forced > collapsing of the iOS platform resulting from the 5 successive presses > of the power key. > > The iOS device at this time is not expecting this crash and as a > result maybe accessing a key string of code, or a significant part > of your user data. If this happened at the exact moment you > performed the 5 successive presses of the power key, it is conceivable > that it might corrupt data. > > The 12 second or however long it is, press of power and home at the > same time, is far more logical and sensible. As it is coded into the > iOS as a sort of. I want to reboot this device, prepare for it > please and stop doing anything critical notification to the device. > > > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an > Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. 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