Hello, I would like to knwo if it’s useful to restart the telephone from time to time ? Thanks.

I restart my phone every day. I imagine it’s good for the phone to clear temporary memory, etc. I usually do it when I plug the charger in when I get home.

Definetly a worthwhie idea, but how often is another issue. For some once a week is more than enough for some far too often even once a month :slight_smile: Howver apps store info and data in a cache, on the internal memory. It can be helpful and even necessary to purge this now and then. Switchin…

At least once a month to install the latest update, that’s about the frequency I reboot my FP4. My previous phone got custom ROM updates every other week or so, so a reboot every two weeks it was. It was quite slow at the end of its life, but rebooting didn’t speed it up at all :slight_smile: Apart…

The OS is perfectly capable to do garbage collection by itself :slight_smile: It doesn’t need help from you or 3rd party apps that claim to do so. Only reboot if you really have to (update, bugs, runs hot).

[image] filsdepub: I would like to knwo if it’s useful to restart the telephone from time to time ? Remember, its not Windows

[image] Kees: The OS is perfectly capable to do garbage collection by itself :slight_smile: It doesn’t need help from you or 3rd party apps that claim to do so. Strongly agreed. You are probably slowing things down by rebooting, because the OS does cache things in memory (free memory is waste…

Thank you for all your responses.

In my case, it restarts by itself at least once a week :wink: (Fairphone 4 - latest version)

I would agree in theory (and also administer Linux systems that sometimes accumulate long uptimes), but in practice if I use my FP3 a lot, especially after the Android 11 update, it starts to get slow, apps reload every time I switch to them, sometimes the screen freezes for 10 seconds or more… all …

[image] uodalricus: my impression is that Fairphone OS is a weird kind of Android Fairphone OS is an extremely-close-to-stock Android, as these things go.

Useful to restart?

Help Fairphone 4

mpolito1969 June 19, 2022, 3:46am 15

Have you had a look at this?

I had the same problem but I found a workaround explained in that thread.

Ciao,
Max