topic Re: Restart option in power button menu? in XPERIA archive

Restart option in power button menu?

V8Matt — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:15:14 GMT

Always found it odd that Sony doesn't give the restart option when clicking the power button, am I missing a trick?

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Uliwooly — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:39:25 GMT

Press and hold power & volume up until the phone vibrates, about 5 seconds > the phone will restart

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:23:12 GMT

Hi, very interesting.

Just tried this, twice, and just shuts the phone down, doesn't restart. The first time I held both buttons until the phone vibrated, like you said, but it just shut down. The second time, I thought perhaps I have to hold both buttons until I see the screen come back alive (like iPhones and iPads), but still, it only shut down.

Am I doing it wrong?

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:09:24 GMT

Once the phone vibrate you can release the power & volume up keys, it will turn on, just wait for it

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:40:38 GMT

@uliwooly wrote:
Once the phone vibrate you can release the power & volume up keys, it will turn on, just wait for it

Nope, doesn't do it.

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:01:49 GMT

It should work unless you are pressing both volume keys and/or you don't press and hold at the same time

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:08:12 GMT

uliwooly, thanks for trying to help, but my phone definitely doesn't restart. i just tried it again, exactly as you said - hold power and volume up together, the phone vibrates about 4-5 seconds later, and the screen goes off. i let go of the buttons, and as i type this, about 2 minutes later, the phone is still switched off - it hasn't restarted...

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:59:31 GMT

Are you certain that nothing is pressing the volume up and/or any other key? perhaps a protective case?

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:02:24 GMT

Absolutely certain. No case.

As you may have seen in my other thread, I'm having some other odd issues with the phone, such as asking for language selection upon every boot, and swipe input not working everywhere... Perhaps it needs a factory reset (I'm much rather not do this, but will, if it seems necessary), or is just a dud phone. It's only about a week old.

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Uliwooly — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:12:40 GMT

You should reset your phone

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Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:15:08 GMT

Have a look here:

http://youtu.be/VBQ9x-GxaCg

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

ChandanP — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:18:38 GMT

All this step did was phone got shut down.

You are right, holding power button and volume up button, only shut downs the device.

And the next way to turn on the phone is to press and hold the power button again.

It should boot the phone, atleast it did for me.

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:21:23 GMT

@ChandanP wrote:
All this step did was phone got shut down.
You are right, holding power button and volume up button, only shut downs the device.
And the next way to turn on the phone is to press and hold the power button again.
It should boot the phone, atleast it did for me.

Yes, powering the phone back up manually is no problem, this is about this method being supposed to reboot the phone (as opposed to just shut down). But it's not working for me, and it doesn't sound like it's working for you either.

uliwooly, is it possible there are regional firmware differences? I'm in the UK, and it's a UK phone. Where are you?

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

Sam — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 02:19:41 GMT

Just to clarify, you need to make sure that you are taking your finger off the buttons at the same time and as soon as it vibrates once. If you don’t do this then it will just switch off.

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Re: Restart option in power button menu?

vladman — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:56:31 GMT

@Sam wrote:
Just to clarify, you need to make sure that you are taking your finger off the buttons at the same time and as soon as it vibrates once. If you don’t do this then it will just switch off.
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Hi, ok, I made sure to do that, I let go as soon as I feel the first vibration, still, it only shuts down. I tried it twice, the moment I feel the first vibration I let go of both buttons.

In my other post, the last person to respond said it should vibrate 3 times for reboot, and 5 times for shut down. I only ever get 3 vibrations, never 5, but it always shuts down, never reboots.

Re: Restart option in power button menu?

SwitchTrix — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:04:21 GMT

This is a very clumsy way of getting a phone to restart, a software based restart (like on most other phones) would be a much better idea