Patent ID: 8634819

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless communication device having first processing circuitry and second processing circuitry, the method comprising: transferring first wireless communications to a wireless network using the first processing circuitry; identifying a reboot condition for the first processing circuitry, and in response, providing a geographic location of the wireless communication device using geographic position equipment of the wireless communication device to second processing circuitry, and displaying a user interface for communications on the wireless communication device using the second processing circuitry; rebooting the first processing circuitry while the user interface for communications is displayed, wherein the geographic position equipment of the wireless communication device is unavailable during reboot; and transferring second wireless communications comprising the geographic location of the wireless communication device to the wireless network using the second processing circuitry while rebooting the first processing circuitry, wherein the second processing circuitry is separate from the first processing circuitry.