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WARM BOOT (SOFT RESET)
"Warm boot" is also known as "soft reset". When the mobile computer runs slower than
normal or when one or more active applications crash, perform warm boot to close all active
applications and restart the mobile computer without turning off power supply to hardware.
After warm boot, all flash memory and clock/calendar time are kept, and all saved data are
preserved. However the unsaved data is gone after warm boot if the warm boot is
performed when the application in question is still running.
To perform "warm boot":
Hit the reset toggle using the stylus.
COLD BOOT (HARD RESET)
"Cold boot" is also known as "hard reset". In case one or more applications are misbehaving
and the mobile computer just doesn't cooperate, perform cold boot as the final act.
"Cold boot" restarts the mobile computer by turning power off and on just like pulling the
battery. As "Cold boot" initializes DRAM, all data cached in DRAM is gone after cold boot.
However all flash memory and clock/calendar time are preserved.
To perform "cold boot":
Press and hold the physical Power button while in the same time poke the reset toggle
for just a fraction of a second.
Note Power button should be held down and not released until the mobile computer
vibrates and powers on.
OR
Simply reload main battery and re-power on the mobile computer.
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