03/12/2023
Why Turning Off/On Device Works ?
Let’s take a simple example from the real world. You leave your home for your friend’s home. You know the route. However, somewhere along the way, you take a wrong turn and are now lost. You don’t know which way is your friend’s house or maybe even your house.
However, if you were to begin from your house again, assuming nothing goes wrong, you should be able to find your way to the friend’s house.
That’s how rebooting a device like a smartphone, computer, or smart TV works. Turning off a device puts it back at home. It is starting from the beginning. Now it knows its way around. Technically speaking, any computer, be it a smartphone or PC, has tiny capacitors that carry a charge. They are also sometimes responsible for these wrong turns. When you turn off the computer and let it stay off for 20-30 seconds, it loses that stored charge and resets forcing it to start from scratch, from home.
Note: Another related troubleshooting step is removing all accessories. Some accessories have their own power source while others may have some power stored or leftover. Removing them also removes that charge resetting the computer that isn’t working because it has lost its way around.
