02-21-2004, 09:00 PM
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How Often Do You Soft Reset Your Pocket PC
I was just wondering how often you soft reset your Pocket PC. I do mine probably 3-4 times a week. Two are because I backup using Sprite Backup twice a week and it kills all processes before starting the backup process, so a soft reset is the fastest way to relaunch everything that starts at boot.
The other soft resets are when things just go awry. One or both extra times for me is usually an inability to connect to my Nokia 3650 via bluetooth. When that happens, I just reset both the phone and my 2215 since they take about the same time to cycle and as often as not, it is the 3650's bluetooth connection that isn't receiving.
So how about you?
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02-21-2004, 09:12 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Wow. I thought I was a heavy Pocket PC user, but I only reset once or twice a month. I guess my application selection must be more conservative than most.
--janak
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02-21-2004, 09:12 PM
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At least once a day, but for a similar reason as Ed. I have Sprite Backup set to autobackup to my SD card at 4AM every morning (and save two backups), and I have it set to reset when complete.
I also soft reset when I notice my memory getting low and nothing is running (except the background stuff that doesn't show up in running programs). There are definately memory leaks, I just don't want to take the time to figure out what is causing them. Chances are it is a program I'm not giving up anyway 
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02-21-2004, 09:17 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Wow, it's amazing to see how many people soft-reset many times a day.
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02-21-2004, 09:30 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Back when I had my Tosh. I would only reset if I could not get a wifi signal (very seldom)
There is a typo (second to last option) :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:
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02-21-2004, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Sheynk
Back when I had my Tosh. I would only reset if I could not get a wifi signal (very seldom)
There is a typo (second to last option) :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:
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heh. Whoops. Can't fix it either. Smoke comes out of the server when you edit a poll once voting has begun. :?
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02-21-2004, 09:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I reset a few times a day. I have my iPAQ to do everything but PIM, more like a poor man's laptop substitute. That said, much of my software which is mainly multimedia/emulators aren't commercial quality, and are expected to crash and hang from time to time.
Unfortunately, I can't say that comminity-powered-software is the only culprit for my frequent resets, but at least two times a week, my Bluetooth connection goes awry, and I'm forced to reboot both my PC and iPAQ to make a connection again.
BT STRIKES AGAIN! It's a love/hate relationship, I love it when it works, I hate it when it doesn't.
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02-21-2004, 09:45 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Well I voted 1-2 times a week - works for me.
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02-21-2004, 09:48 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
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The only times I really have to reset are after backups and when starting Textmaker. (The Softmaker guys never really got to the botton of this one so I just live with it).
Anyway it's no big deal. I have a Soft Reset icon on my Today Page and what does it take? Ten seconds maybe?
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02-21-2004, 09:57 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 140
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The only resets i do, are the ones that iPaq backup automatically initiates after the backup has completed. Apart from that i guess about once every two weeks when a bad eBook or something locks up...
Like someone else said; i guess i use quite stable software. I must also say that .NET 4.2 (or WM2003) is the most stable CE incarnation i've ever used so far (and i've been in the game since the HPC CE 2.0 days) 
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