FWIW, sometimes, with electronics, itâs best to totally kill all power to them for 10+ seconds before plugging them back in.
This ensures all residual charge in capacitors are drained completely, and forces a full hardware-level reset to clear out temporary states in volatile memory like RAM. Sometimes leaving power out for 10+ seconds can clear persistent errors in firmware or internal logic and flush buffers, network configurations or sensor calibration quirks. If you just do a restart, some microcontrollers and SoCs retain low power states and are never completely depowered. So, a restart can be good and sufficient in a lot of cases, but itâs also possible that if you donât leave it unplugged from power for 10+ seconds that not EVERYTHING actually restarted fresh and you might continue to experience the same problem. You need to make EVERYTHING discharge first, then start up fresh. Sometimes a ârestartâ doesnât actually do that for âeverythingâ but it is often sufficient for A LOT of cases.
Thatâs my 2 sats centsâŚthough if pennies wonât exist anymore soon, should we say âthatâs my two nickelsâ now? or just âthatâs my dimeâ? 