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Originally Posted by JakeRich
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I have a lot of apps on my PDA and not all of them are compatible with each other. That's just one of the facts of life. So, I end up with deadly embraces, frozen screens, unresponsive machines all the time. Soft reset is just like the CTRL-ALT-DEL on a PC--no big deal. It has the benefit of killing misbehaving apps, recovering memory leaks, defragmenting memory and generally improving performance. It only takes a few seconds and only requires minimal handling (The X5 was better, with that handy button on the side, but the little hole isn't bad.)
My PDA is NOT defective, I just put a lot of stress on it. I do the same with my Laptop. I reboot it several times a day, too. Sometimes the two get hammered together, which means I C-A-D one and Soft Reset the other to get them back to polite behavior. In my normal, quiet day, I'm logged into a network on my laptop, tunnelled in via VPN to my company, with the Axim in a cradle using Activesync to sync to Outlook and mNotes to sync to Lotus Notes. I sometimes then fire up WiFi from the cradle to see what networks I can see operating. TCP/IP gets lost on a regular basis! No big deal, I soft reset and get control back.
I also beta test and review software on the X50, so I'm always installing immature software that crashes it, too. I'm a power user, so I do expect to see problems. I backup a couple of times a day, usually just before I install the NEXT package, so even hard resetting is not that traumatic.
Soft resetting ten times a day is perfectly acceptable to me, given my circumstances. Soft resetting a couple of times a day would be a good practice for any PPC owner, if only to recover memory leaks and defragment memory. It's houskeeping.
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 Now I get it you beta software - enough said. Totally understandable why you have to reset so much. But you have to admit for most typical user (some power users) that resetting multiple times per day would be a hassle for them.
Brian
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Past: Dell x50v, Toshiba e755, Toshiba e740, iPAQ 3600, Visor Delux, PALM III, Philips Velo CE1/2, Casio PPC CE1, Sharp Wizard 1Meg, Sharp Wizard 512K, Sharp Wizard 256K, Sharp Wizard 64K, RadioShack PocketPC-6 6K, RadioShack PocketPC-6 4K & pen and notebook paper.
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