Is iPhone performance deteriorating for everyone?

MarkyMark · 11-14-2008, 05:10 AM

Are you guys starting to notice your phone locking up more and more, gigantic 20 to 30 second pauses, and stuttering while typing?

Even people I know with brand new iPhones are noticing it.

What could be causing it? It's been increasing in frequency and intensity gradually since we upgraded to 2.1. When we upgraded to 2.1 it seemed to make the previous pauses and stuttering of 2.0 to go away, and now it seems it's returning.

It doesn't seem to be the number of apps we have loaded. And it doesn't seem to be certain kinds of email addresses either (e.g. AOL vs. gmail for instance.)

Any thoughts or comments?

Mark

Nickel · 11-14-2008, 10:08 PM

Could it be the amount of memory taken up? As you add more music, movies, apps, pictures etc, perhaps it slows it down. Sort of like on computers.

MarkyMark · 11-17-2008, 04:54 PM

No, I don't think that's it because my friends that have new iPhones with nothing on them and are experiencing the same thing. Multitasking on the iPhone is something that clearly must be left to Apple to iron out, and still has a way to go.

I really dislike the situation where we developers are absolutely clueless as to what's going on in the phone. How is it that I myself have no idea what could be causing the problems, and we have no "visibility." I'm an uber-geek along with all the rest of you guys. We should be able to understand our machines.

I have never used a Blackberry, but I bet that the email response is always zippy and fast. It's amazing that reading emails is such a laborious process on the iPhone. We are all very tired of the "Loading..." indicator spinning and spinning and spinning and no clue if you're even connected anymore. And even though you can read part of the message in the list of emails, you can't read any of the message when you tap on it and get the "message was not downloaded from the server" message and a button that will download the remaining 0K bytes.

There is much yet to be done to make email fast and reliable, and I can't help but think that iPhone gets second class status on the AT&T network. My PC can load something over my wireless router in an instant, but retrieving the same message on the iPhone on the same wireless router takes over a minute to load a small text message. It's like iPhone traffic has to wait in a long line before being serviced. It's just text!

Hmmmm.

I wish I knew what was going on. Especially so I can explain it to other frustrated users.

A_Nub · 11-19-2008, 05:36 AM

I have noticed the same thing, also another thing that has me down is how it is so slow at rendering pages in safari, which is really annoying and also odd as it doesn't take high end computers to render web pages fast. Hell Ive seen 3D games on the iPhone with alot more maths and heavier graphics running faster.

MarkyMark · 12-03-2008, 03:32 PM

After lots of experimentation and observation it's pretty clear to me that it's the constant fetching of email that is locking up my iPhone. When I turn off all email accounts (I have about 10 of them), everything is fast and responsive, but when I turn on my various email addresses, some of them must cause these synchronous states where nothing on the iPhone can continue until the operation is completed, so sometimes I'll tap on something and it's 8 seconds before it continues on, and typing can get very sluggish.

I tried turning off various email accounts to see if it's push vs. fetch types, or yahoo vs. AOL kinda thing, but it doesn't seem to make a difference that I could see. And of course it doesn't fetch email when a third party app is running.

I wish there was a way to get it to not fetch email WHILE you are trying to read your email, because it makes flicking through and deleting your emails frustrating.

But at least I kinda think I know what's going on now.

11-14-2008, 05:10 AM	#1 (permalink)
MarkyMark Administrator Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 159	Is iPhone performance deteriorating for everyone? Are you guys starting to notice your phone locking up more and more, gigantic 20 to 30 second pauses, and stuttering while typing? Even people I know with brand new iPhones are noticing it. What could be causing it? It's been increasing in frequency and intensity gradually since we upgraded to 2.1. When we upgraded to 2.1 it seemed to make the previous pauses and stuttering of 2.0 to go away, and now it seems it's returning. It doesn't seem to be the number of apps we have loaded. And it doesn't seem to be certain kinds of email addresses either (e.g. AOL vs. gmail for instance.) Any thoughts or comments? Mark

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11-14-2008, 10:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Nickel Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4	Could it be the amount of memory taken up? As you add more music, movies, apps, pictures etc, perhaps it slows it down. Sort of like on computers.

11-17-2008, 04:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
MarkyMark Administrator Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 159	No, I don't think that's it because my friends that have new iPhones with nothing on them and are experiencing the same thing. Multitasking on the iPhone is something that clearly must be left to Apple to iron out, and still has a way to go. I really dislike the situation where we developers are absolutely clueless as to what's going on in the phone. How is it that I myself have no idea what could be causing the problems, and we have no "visibility." I'm an uber-geek along with all the rest of you guys. We should be able to understand our machines. I have never used a Blackberry, but I bet that the email response is always zippy and fast. It's amazing that reading emails is such a laborious process on the iPhone. We are all very tired of the "Loading..." indicator spinning and spinning and spinning and no clue if you're even connected anymore. And even though you can read part of the message in the list of emails, you can't read any of the message when you tap on it and get the "message was not downloaded from the server" message and a button that will download the remaining 0K bytes. There is much yet to be done to make email fast and reliable, and I can't help but think that iPhone gets second class status on the AT&T network. My PC can load something over my wireless router in an instant, but retrieving the same message on the iPhone on the same wireless router takes over a minute to load a small text message. It's like iPhone traffic has to wait in a long line before being serviced. It's just text! Hmmmm. I wish I knew what was going on. Especially so I can explain it to other frustrated users.

12-03-2008, 03:32 PM	#5 (permalink)
MarkyMark Administrator Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 159	After lots of experimentation and observation it's pretty clear to me that it's the constant fetching of email that is locking up my iPhone. When I turn off all email accounts (I have about 10 of them), everything is fast and responsive, but when I turn on my various email addresses, some of them must cause these synchronous states where nothing on the iPhone can continue until the operation is completed, so sometimes I'll tap on something and it's 8 seconds before it continues on, and typing can get very sluggish. I tried turning off various email accounts to see if it's push vs. fetch types, or yahoo vs. AOL kinda thing, but it doesn't seem to make a difference that I could see. And of course it doesn't fetch email when a third party app is running. I wish there was a way to get it to not fetch email WHILE you are trying to read your email, because it makes flicking through and deleting your emails frustrating. But at least I kinda think I know what's going on now.