I'm pretty sure I saw a message stating a soft reset was what was being talked about. I'm not sure I've had to do a soft reset myself, but there has been enough discussion on this list to know that some people have a problem where they don't get VoiceOver back after doing a soft reset while others don't see this problem.
On 23/11/12 08:35, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > I cannot say, although you maybe right. > > All I can say is that in owning 3 3GS's, 2 4's, 2 $S's and 1 5, as well > as the iPad, iPad2, iPad3 and iPad Mini, I've never once had to do this > soft reset thing. > > > > 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. For all your > accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > <http://www.talknav.com> > > URL: - www.talknav.com <http://www.talknav.com> > e-mail: - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > On 23 Nov 2012, at 13:58, Raul A. Gallegos <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Hi Neil. I totally agree with you on this, but it was my understanding >> that Matthew's initial message was referring to doing a reset via the >> power and home button pressing for 12 seconds or more. Like the kind >> of reset you do when the phone locks up or is doing odd things. I >> could be wrong though so feel free to correct me. >> >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos >> Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven >> Wright >> Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 >> Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 >> >> On 11/23/2012 8:56 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: >>> I'm slightly confused here… >>> >>> Doing a hard reset, i.e. going into Settings, General, Reset and "Reset >>> All Settings and Erase Data", surely does exactly what it says on the >>> tin, and I fail to see why you are surprised that Voice Over didn't come >>> up talking following it, and that it had lost your settings. >>> >>> A hard reset wipes the whole phone, the warning messages on the phone >>> are very clear about this. >>> >>> A soft reset though, which is the power and home keys held for a number >>> of seconds, that should in theory not cause Voice Over to die and lose >>> settings, but, never the less you are force quitting and making the >>> phone do something that at the time it did not wish to do… as such, >>> things do go wrong from time to time. >>> >>> >>> >>> 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. For all your >>> accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com >>> <http://www.talknav.com> >>> <http://www.talknav.com> >>> >>> URL: - www.talknav.com <http://www.talknav.com> <http://www.talknav.com> >>> e-mail: - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 >>> >>> On 21 Nov 2012, at 01:35, Matthew Campbell <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all. >>>> I had to hard reset my iPhone 4 this evening. >>>> When the phone booted up, VoiceOver did not come back, triple click >>>> home no longer worked, and when I finally got VoiceOver back thanks to >>>> iTunes all my VoiceOver settings were back to factory defaults. >>>> This is just a warning to not hard reset your iPhone unless you >>>> absolutely must. >>>> I just sent a message off to Apple accessibility, and am waiting to >>>> hear back. 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