What is a Soft Reset and what the Soft Reset does? The Soft Reset is the easiest reset to perform on a mobile phone.
To Soft Reset a phone is to simply power cycle the device, to power it off and then to power it back on.
The soft reset can actually solve many simple problems on mobile phones, especially when the phone has been on for a long period of time and has not been power cycled for a while.
1. To perform soft reset on your device you will have to unlock you screen and hold down power button.
2. Wait untill you see this menu on the screen.
3. Choose from the menu Reboot or Restart option.
4. And Soft reset is finished. It's that easy!
Sometimes your phone is not responding due to some application or other problem, in this situation you can reboot your phone.
If you want to erase your all data from your phone then you should go with factory setting restore.
This option will erase your all data. The main reason to power them down daily would be to not waste energy.
Along side that it allows your RAM to flush itself as well as "rest" when fully off, this gives the RAM some extra longevity.
Diagnostics are often ran during the time of booting, so small errors are often automatically fixed. And of course the obvious reason; for updates requiring reboots.