bab.... a sort of off-topic question: when you or others suggest a "hard reset" or even a soft reset, would the same thing be accomplished by simply turning off the iPhone and turning it back on??
I turn my phone off every night. So do I effectively do a hard, soft, whatever "reset" every time I do? Thanks.
No no. There are basically 3 things.
1- power off the phone. When you power off the phone, you are actually doing nothing to the phone other than freezing all the ongoing process in the phone, I call ongoing proccess the phone calls, SMS, Facebook and other notification and you are saving some battery life by powering off the phone. You will notice that if you have 5apps opened in the background, there will still be there, in the background after you power on the phone.
2- hardreset. The push of both power and home buttons for about 12s. This process kill all the ongoing proccess in the phone AT THE MOMENT you are performing the hard reset. Plus in addition, it will try to load and restore some basic files into the system in case te got to be manipulated by a 3rd party app. The hardreset will also free all your ram memory where by a power off/on doesn't free your ram memory.
3- factory restore. A restore of the iOS via iTunes. This will format your phone and load the iOS on it as if it was from the factory.
So when you power off the phone you just prevent it to give you notifications about incoming calls SMS etc... You just freeze the processes in the phone. Once you power it up, everything will be the way you left it before but in the background, plus you are not really freeing any ram memory or doing anything special to the phone by powering it off/on.
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