In a perfect world, our phones would never crash: our apps would never hang, interfaces would never lag, and there’d never be the need to restart our phones in the hopes that a fresh boot would get things working nicely once again. As smartphone users are only all too aware, that’s simply not the world we live in, and for as much as developers do to keep mobile platforms stable, sometimes “have you tried turning it off and on again?” really is the best advice. But stock Android lacks a convenient “restart” feature; sure, you can power a device down and then start it back up again, but what about an option for a quick one-step reboot? At least one smartphone maker looks intent on making that happen.
Sony’s a significant contributor to the Android Open Source Project, and going back months now it’s been nudging at Google to implement a reboot option in the Android power menu. Google’s politely declined such requests in the past, but Sony seems undeterred, and recently the company’s gone ahead with its own AOSP commit that adds a developer toggle to enable a reboot option.
There’s no telling if Google will accept the changes, but maybe tucking it away with developer tools might be enough to convince Google to reconsider its stance on an Android reset button.
What do you think? Is Google maybe stubbornly trying to deny that sometimes your phone just gets so messed up that a good restart is just what it needs? Is the current power-off, power-on system good enough?
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