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8 Sep

Hard Resetting your iPhone might improve it’s performance

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After using iPhone 3G continuously for over 3 weeks, I found my iPhone’s response time had become a bit sluggish. And then, I synced my iPhone with iTunes after a break of  around 2 weeks.  Surprisingly, post this sync, my iPhone is responding pretty well. The page scrolls and application response time is better than what it was before the sync. I recommend syncing iPhone with iTunes regularly, atleast 3-4 times a month. Since I keep adding and removing apps from AppStore, a sync seems to flush out all those non-relevent files, I guess. For faster iPhone, I recommend not to have more than 9 pages of applications on iPhone springboard. There might be a bug in iPhone 2.0.2 firmware that slows down the OS when there are over 9 pages of apps. Hope this gets sorted out with 2.1 firmware which is releasing tomorrow, the 9th Sept.

If you feel that your iPhone is not functioning as fast as it used to be and restarting it is doing no good, try Hard Reset - It might improve your iPhone’s performance. The term “Hard Reset” is a bit dicey. Hard Reset in ‘windows mobile’ terminology would mean that applications have gone bad and hard reset would restore the device to factory settings. But in iPhone’s terminology, it just means “Forced Reset” or a “Forced Reboot”. 

Whenever I find my iPhone’s response time a bit sluggish, I would restart my iPhone by holding power and home button for 6+seconds. Would wait for ”Slide to power off” button to appear, and then ’slide it’ to turn it off. And then, press the power button to restart it. I would also hard reset my iPhone to speed it up. Regular hard resetting iPhone is not recommended. But if one hard resets his iPhone, he wouldn’t lose anything, for sure - all your contacts, sms’s, notes, music, apps etc would still be there. Its like turning off a computer abruptly and then restarting it.

Here is how to Hard Reset iPhone:

1. Press the sleep/wake button and the home button simultaneously for more than 12-15 seconds, ignore the “Slide to power off” and keep holding.
     
2. The iPhone would go blank after few seconds and would automatically shut down.
3. Wait for ~10 to 15 seconds and then turn the iPhone back on by hitting the sleep/wake button.
4. You should now see the Apple logo, your iPhone is restarting and thus booting up.
5. Your iPhone will now reboot. Hard Reset process is complete.

Note: If your apps crash quite often, Hard Reset it once, it might just do the trick.