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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 111 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Jokes on them, my S22 Ultra restarts in it's own. Even when I don't want it to.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    This is gonna sound odd, but have you cleaned out the USB port lately? Weird stuff happens when pocket lint collects in there. I thought mine had a dead port until I picked out (with a non-conductive toothpick) the lint I didn't realize had accumulated.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Don't e.g. alarm apps not work after that until you unlock your phone since the device data decryption keys weren't kept in RAM after rebooting? I have that feature off since I don't want that to happen. Afaik AOSP has added that to make installing updates more seamless, but it'd be useful for this too. (And since Samsung usually sucks at improving their already self-made stuff to align with AOSP, like Virtual A/B updates, I'm just assuming this)

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Replace your battery.

    Your phone is 2 years old.

    Phone batteries are typically designed to last around 2 years before they really degrade because a lot of people buy new ones around every 2-3 years.

    When the battery can't sustain the same throughput, the phone can handle this in one of two ways.

    1. Slow the phone down. This is what Apple does and why people with iPhones 2 years old complain the new update slowed their phone down.

    2. Don't slow it down but if the throughput drops below what's needed, die and reboot. This is what your phone is doing.

    Getting a new battery will probably stop this behavior (and for iPhone users reading this, getting a new battery for a 2 year old phone will make your phone faster).

    Edit: Seems some of you don't believe me looking at the downvotes. Look at number 8 in this list: https://helpdeskgeek.com/help-desk/why-your-android-phone-keeps-restarting-and-9-ways-to-fix/

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have an s22 ultra as well, and it's fine? Sounds more like they have some rogue apps causing the restart.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Half life is typically probabilistic.

    You were lucky. They were not.

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