Actually, pressing the sleep and home buttons simeltaneously for 10 seconds is not the same as holding in the power button on a windows machine. Pressing the sleep button six times in rapid succession is the same as holding the power button on a windows machine as it crashes the iOS springboard. In fact, this method only works when VO is turned on, and can damage your system.
Press and hold the power and home buttons for 10 seconds is Apple's recommended method for clearing out all the driver stacks and rebuilding them. This does not happen when you turn the iOS device off then back on again. Unfortunately, there is a very occasional bug in iOS which you experienced. Sometimes, when press and hold power and home buttons for 10 seconds, VO resets itself to factory default and deactivates. Nothing else is effected, and this only happens very occasionally. My understanding, from several months ago, is that Apple had not yet been able to reproduce this particular bug. When I tested it with my older iPhone 4 by performing several hard resets in a row, the bug occurred twice in 30 resets. Having been a beta tester multiple times for different companies, I can state that, no matter how much we believe bugs are easy to fix, until a bug occurs reliably, it is extremely difficult to track down. Once it has been tracked down, repairing it may not be a simple matter for many reasons, the strongest in my mind is that, sometimes when a minor bug is fixed, the change causes very major problems elsewhere. All of this is to say, write an email to [email protected] explaining what happened so they will know that this particular bug is still very occasionally present. Note: I have not experienced this bug since the last iOS upgrade. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31/08/2013, at 14:01, Joseph FreeTech <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know the technical processes that take place when one uses the > simultaneous press of the Sleep + Home button? I'd like to know if this is > what some deem an extreme measure similar to pressing and holding the power > button on a Windows machine, or if this is a safe practice on an IOS device. > Sorry to be so repetitive, but I'm looking for a credible answer and I keep > getting descriptions of what the process will do, processes which I have > already conveyed knowledge of. I've already found out it wipes out > VoiceOver, so I'm curious how the process effects other functions of the OS. > > Joseph > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joanne Chua" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:35 PM > Subject: Re: How to "Reboot" an IOS Device > > > pressing the home and sleep button is a way to reset the device. It is > different from pressing the sleep button alone, (sleep button alone) for > turning it off and turning back on again. > To turn off your device, press and hold sleep button for a few second, until > you hear voiceover anouncing something a long the line "shudding down > iphone, slide right for ok or left for cancel." > After you have slide according to your option, voice over will either say > "iphone is shudding down" or you will back to wherever you were. > > > > The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion.Joanne Chua > Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate > Send from my iPad > > On 31/08/2013, at 10:43, Joseph FreeTech <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you, You're a credible source, and I can obviously now confirm this >> fact. Had I followed my intuition and waited a little longer, I would have >> saved myself some unnecessary frustration. To be clear, the simultaneous >> press of the Sleep button and Home button on an IOS device is comparable >> to >> pressing and holding the power button to force a shut down on a Windows >> computer, right? >> >> Joseph >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike Arrigo" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:06 PM >> Subject: Re: How to "Reboot" an IOS Device >> >> >> There is no direct restart. If the device totally hangs, you can hold the >> power and home buttons for about 10 seconds to force a reset. Otherwise, >> to >> restart, you will need to shut down, then turn on the device again. >> On Aug 30, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Joseph FreeTech <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just curious, can one execute the equivalent of a reboot on an IOS device >>> such as iPod Touch 5th gen? I'd like to simulate the "restart" process >>> found >>> in a Windows computer. I know I can press and hold the Sleep/Power button >>> for about 4 seconds and at the prompt double-tap the screen to shut down, >>> but I'm finding that I forget I completely shut the thing down. 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