Is anyone surprised?
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If you tap it. If you hold it for like 2 seconds it reboots.
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If you tap it. If you hold it for like 2 seconds it reboots.
Makes sense. Though I imagine it's easier to train users to "not touch this button" than to "always hold it for at least 2 seconds, otherwise you get some weird dialog".
Probably saved them billions in first-tier tech support.
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I don't think they were that common. There was only a short period between using the big ol' rocker on the PSU as the one (and only) source of power to the computer, and removing all extraneous buttons from the case and moving the power button to the keyboards. I think my Quadra 610 had one, but I'm 99% sure it was gone by the time I got my PowerMac 4400.
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Reset!
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I was trying to work out whether SEGA Genesis (US name) or SEGA Mega Drive (UK name) was a more stupid name for a console.
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Genesis is such a better name.
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I seem to recall it was called a "programmers switch"... and for a while I think they were an optional add-on you stuck in the machine.
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because I can't stand the kindergarten environment that Apple gives you
Fisher Price is disappointed that you didn't recognize their trademark interface.
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Yeah, thus my confusion over having both a programmer's switch and a reset button.
If you tapped it, it went to that horrible awful "thing" Apple shipped with their OS for many years, for no reason anybody can discern. I guess it was "kind of" a debugger, in that it could show you contents of memory-- but only if you knew the exact address you wanted. And it could... uh, reboot?
If there was any other functionality to it, I never figured it out.
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Hellboy the Accuser?
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@Severity_One said:
can't do a backup because Samsung Kies is an utter piece of rubbish.
You're right, there isn't a base backup solution. Yet. I expect that will be fixed at some point.There are plenty of backup solutions, but none of them appear to work on my particular phone. Or at least, not very well. Kies is the most obvious example, that simply tells me "I couldn't back this and this item up", without telling me why. Others essentially require you to root your phone, which I've meanwhile done, but more to try to get rid of the wakelocks (which drained the battery like there was no tomorrow).
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There are plenty of backup solutions, but none of them appear to work on my particular phone.
Have you tried nandroid? That's the usual recommendation on places like XDA Developers.
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I misread that as metroid the first time I saw it.
Hmm... I have a suggestion for Nintendo for a new backup service they could offer!
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I'd buy that.
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There are plenty of backup solutions, but none of them appear to work on my particular phone. Or at least, not very well. Kies is the most obvious example, that simply tells me "I couldn't back this and this item up", without telling me why. Others essentially require you to root your phone, which I've meanwhile done, but more to try to get rid of the wakelocks (which drained the battery like there was no tomorrow).
By "base", I meant there isn't one baked into Android.