How to Power Cycle Your Gadgets To Fix Freezes and Other Problems

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Published on Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:00:06 GMT Indexed on 2012/12/18 17:05 UTC
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Have you ever had a smartphone, laptop, tablet, or any other electronic gadget become unresponsive? The surefire way to recover from the freeze – assuming it’s not a hardware problem – is by power-cycling the gadget.

Most geeks know that pulling and reinserting a device’s battery will force it to recover from a freeze and boot right back up, but what if the device doesn’t have a removable battery?

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