omnia reset

[Guest demential]

how do you reset your omnia ?

you do a total power off and then power on again, or you just click reset ?

it's ok to press "reset" when you want to do a restart ?

[Guest glhfun]

I have no other ways,just press"reset" button. It is very different from Windows XP.

[Guest osterstrasse]

how do you reset your omnia ?

you do a total power off and then power on again, or you just click reset ?

it's ok to press "reset" when you want to do a restart ?

Sorry for my english

better i answer you in german

1.) Akku Raus und wieder Rein

2.) Annahme- UND Auflegen.Taste GLEICHZEITIG 5 sec. gedrückt halten

3.) Power Taste für 5 sec. gedrückt halten

4.) Formatieren bestätigen

(funktioniert wirklich, habe ich selbst schon genau so gemacht)

Gruß

[Guest Michael122w]

The reset button is fine. The power off option is also good when if my omnia freezes and I have no stylus.

I mainly use WKTask (which is a task manager for closing down programs) - but it comes with a range of handy functions such as reboot. So I tend to use it for resetting - as its easier for my fingers than the reset button B)

[Guest pidsw]

Whenevery you reset use the reset button you run a slight risk of having cached data not written out to memory from RAM (same thing when you phone crashes). It is very rare, but I have my caches at very large sizes so I prefer a software reset or power down/power up.

I am not sure if all software resets flush all dirty cache lines and wait on pending IO or if power down does either.

I would guess that there is an API that handles this that most apps use. The process would be something like: Close all windows (gives apps a chance to commite changes from RAM to storage), stop all services, close, down DLL's, kill lingering processes, flush dirty cache lines, wait on IO, reset.

If you are in the middle of a write operation when the power does a temp cut you could damage a cluster on Solid state.

Quantifying these risks is difficult. My guess is that 99.99% of the time nothing will go wrong, but I have had cases in which modifed data was not committed, and cases in which I lost a cluster (I used Pocket Mechanic to find it. Prior to finding it my device would get unstable when it used sectors in that cluster).

[Guest pidsw]

Whenevery you reset use the reset button you run a slight risk of having cached data not written out to memory from RAM (same thing when you phone crashes). It is very rare, but I have my caches at very large sizes so I prefer a software reset or power down/power up.

I am not sure if all software resets flush all dirty cache lines and wait on pending IO or if power down does either.

I would guess that there is an API that handles this that most apps use. The process would be something like: Close all windows (gives apps a chance to commite changes from RAM to storage), stop all services, close, down DLL's, kill lingering processes, flush dirty cache lines, wait on IO, reset.

If you are in the middle of a write operation when the power does a temp cut you could damage a cluster on Solid state.

Quantifying these risks is difficult. My guess is that 99.99% of the time nothing will go wrong, but I have had cases in which modifed data was not committed, and cases in which I lost a cluster (I used Pocket Mechanic to find it. Prior to finding it my device would get unstable when it used sectors in that cluster).