Soft resets are good???

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Ryan The Lion- RAWR!

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Hello Group .....

Can anyone confirm: Soft resets are actually good to do every once in a while in order to "clear out" the handheld.

Is there any truth to this? If so, how often should it be done?

Cheers,

Syno
 
Every 30 seconds.





Just kidding.

I make a habit of soft-resetting before and after I move anything to flash, regardless of whether JF tells me I should. Just puts things back in order. There is a freeware called mReset (careful - as soon as you SELECT the program, BOOM - there's your soft reset) . . . which speeds things up and is around 2k in size.

Personally I think it's also a good idea if you have a lot of timed events like auto-backups goin on - just "sets the table straight." I wouldn't do 6 a day, but 2 a week wouldn't be excessive in my view.

And, if there's anything "glitchy," Palms will tend to lean toward a soft reset "for you" (!!) anyway . . . I'm talking about just as "practice" especially if you're constantly configuring new stuff, auditioning new stuff, have a lot of timed backups and/or move things to flash/RAM. Hope this helps.
 
for machines with small dynamic heap stacks (TT,TT2), soft reset is the only way to defrag and this can make the difference between an app running or not (eg acidimage, bugme notepad etc)
 
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