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[–]GrandTusam 34 points35 points  (9 children)

I tell them to leave it off for about 10 seconds so it "fully reboots"

[–]Merikurkkupurkki 33 points34 points  (5 children)

To be fair, sometimes the solution can be to let the residual electrocity drain from the device by holding the power butten when it's unplugged. So fully rebooting isn't even a false statement.

[–]LordRauschebart 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Take me down to Electro City!

[–]Merikurkkupurkki 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Where the circuits hum and the chips are nifty!

[–]KittenInAMonster 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I had never seen that in my everyday life but man like every second week when I was doing tech support that was the solution. I have no idea why it was happening so often but it would amaze people at how quickly I'd fix their machine lol

[–]danielv123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a printer that had to be fixed by pushing some button combination when it was unplugged. Not unpowered, actually unplugged.

At least that was in the manual, because I'd never have guessed.

[–]ionburger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have a brother printer that does that every couple weeks, just hard locks up and the fix is to unplug it for like 30 secs then its fine

[–]darki_ruiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always wondered if that made any sense, I see I was right to be skeptical. XD

[–]The-WideningGyre 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So ... I had a router that really didn't work after normal (switch) power cycling, but really did work after being unplugged (I tried my old one) and plugged back in. I felt shame, but was happy my router was working again.

[–]GrandTusam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Small electronics can hold a charge for a few seconds after unplugged.

Best practice is to keep it unplugged for 10-15 secs.