Restarts

[Lynn1961]

Help please. I have a Galaxy a05 & it keeps restarting it self! At first I thought it was at every update, but in settings, (unless Im looking in the wrong place) it hasn't updated since mid August! 

It literally turns itself off & immediate restarts! This morning was half way through sending birthday greetings! Most inopportune! 

Ideas anyone? 

T.i.a.

[MKAYXI]

😂

[Lynn1961]

What's funny about that? 🤷‍♂️

[smiley]

Have you checked device care - auto optimisation settings ?

It is possible to add in a restart schedule to keep the phone optimised. Worth checking for this setting first.

Smiley

[smiley]

Obviously not a very helpful person in this response !

[Lynn1961]

Yes, tried that. All seems good. 🤷‍♂️ it just randomly switches off & restarts! 🤦🏻
Thanks anyway for a helpful reply 👍🏽

[Lynn1961]

Think I may SET for a timed restarts...it might stop the random 🤔 🤞🏼

[smiley]

No problem. I did wonder if this was set to trigger that you were unaware, but correct that if you schedule a restart at a convenient time then it might mean it doesn't inconvenience you.

I set a once weekly as you can see. It helps to clear the phone memory and refresh the phone sometimes.

Of course if the RAM is congested with open apps and Internet browser keeping lots of pages in memory then strange things can happen.

For your A05 (my father has one also), then the RAM plus setting can help add some extra virtual memory space. This should be enabled by default anyway, but also worth checking this setting.

[Lynn1961]

Thanks Smiley, but you lost me at RAM! Not that techy! 🤦🏻😂 but I will try to look for that 👍🏽🙏

[smiley]

Device care. Memory. At the bottom of this screen there is this setting.

The idea of RAM plus is that for devices with a lower amount of random access memory, then it is possible the phone can use some storage area as an active memory area.

For the top end devices that have more RAM in the hardware then this setting is less important, but for the mid range phones with less hardware RAM then this can give more memory size for the phone to use by adding a 'virtual memory space'.

If this is set ON with a value of say 4GB, then your phone RAM (perhaps 3GB hardware) will be increased to allow up to 7GB of instant access memory.

At least that is a basic explanation... there is a bit more than this.

However it is good to have this on for lower phones. But it will use a bit of your storage, which is the compromise.

Bear in mind when you change this setting the phone will need to restart when the option is changed.

Hope this helps with understanding.

Smiley