Tom’s Tech Tip: Why Is My Phone Frozen When It’s Springtime?
Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant has suffered from a frozen phone. Whether it’s an Android® or an iPhone® – it freezes on start-up. Sometimes it freezes for a minute, sometimes longer and sometimes it requires a total reboot. What’s the cause? Well, the causes are many and diverse. The first involves the operating system and your apps. When you power your phone on it “checks in” to see if it needs to be updated. At the same time so do all your apps. If you use “push” notifications for email, Shazam, weather or apps that use location services, they’re all competing for your scarce resources the second your phone comes alive. All those apps can take a long time to check in and if one fails during the check-in, it may kill or affect other processes – all of which use up memory and time checking on, or waiting for, each other.
Even worse, Android phones especially tend to multitask, meaning that some apps continue to run in the background once you use them. They take up memory from the last time they were used until they’re either used again or killed off by the Android OS.
