Difference between 'power-off' and hard-reset ?

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Difference between 'power-off' and hard-reset ?

Is there any difference between simply powering-down/restarting and a "hard reset"? If there is a difference, can anyone explain what it is?

MacAir, iMac 24, iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Mac OS X (10.6.4), I've switched!

Posted on Jul 1, 2010 8:20 AM

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Answer 1

wjosten

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Jul 1, 2010 8:28 AM in response to RandyBrown

Turning the phone off is, well turning it off. A reset is similar to rebooting your computer.

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Tamara

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Jul 1, 2010 8:30 AM in response to RandyBrown

When you power off, you're just shutting the device off. It's not doing anything to change the existing state prior to powering off.

A reset (there is no hard reset) clears caches, memory, etc same as when you reboot a computer.

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Answer 3

Jul 1, 2010 8:45 AM in response to wjosten

OK, now Im curious, if it was totally and completely OFF, why are the same programs still running in background after it was turned off and back on? I mean you turn a computer OFF, and what ever was running previously wont restart. However you hibernate a computer, it is off, but everything that was running previous to shut down restarts to the previous state before shut down.

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