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6s Plus pauses / freezes / lag. Serious issue

I no longer have an unlock delay after several days. Not sure what it was or why but I am keeping an eye on it. I made no changes other than initially powering it off and back on, then a hard reset.
 
dumastudetto said:
Unusable for about 2 seconds while the device unlocks. Annoying yes. But I wouldn't call this a critical issue. In my experience, it seems to be triggered by third-party apps trying to open as you unlock.

But if you really think your phone is unusable I suggest returning it until you're happy Apple can fix it.
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I have the stutter/lag on ip6S when I unlock when the phone has been off for little bit...but today I noticed that the "status bar" is missing briefly. And it takes couple of seconds for the status bar comes back and then the phone is ok again....is this maybe happening to you?

The status bar is there on the lockscreen, but as it goes into homescreen it disappears and then comes back.
 
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
 
I'm going through it as we speak. After coming on here to see if anyone else was experiencing it, I stumbled onto the application.

Mine is TSMC...

Chicki said:
I have a bit of lag and stuttering. It's not horrible and I just got it yesterday, so hopefully it irons itself out. More relieved that my screen isn't flawed :)
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Exactly why I'm not willing to exchange my device. Minor lag is more tolerable than a imperfect screen.
 
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My 6s Plus is TSMC. When unlocking my phone at times, I get like a second of freeze as it is transitioning to the home screen and some of my icons are blown up stuck in the animation. I'm was having an issue with opening Control Center, it would usually take two swipes to open, but it seems like it has resolved itself. I've also had 5 crash/ automatic reboots since getting the 6s Plus on launch day.

I've owned every iPhone since the original and have never had this many issues a few days in, hopefully a software update will address the issues.

It's just strange that some of the issues seem to resolve themselves and then they creep back in.
 
BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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Wow, you're in this thread too spreading uninformed BS?

This is a software issue.
 
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My 6S+ was stuttering and freezing too after I restored via icloud. It got really bad yesterday. Rebooting didn't help UNTIL.....I ran the phone out of juice in an effort to recalibrate the battery as I always do with all my phones. Now the phone no longer freezes after unlocking though Touch ID. It's a night and day difference.

Give it a try guys. Run the battery to it shuts off and recharge and see if it fixes your issues.
 
BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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1. Who's "we"?
2. Evidence please?
 
BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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you need to stop spouting bs
 
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BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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You misspoke slightly. What you meant to say is, "I'm making up things that sound technical in order to stir up angst among users on these boards."
 
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BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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Oh please shut up and stop the misinformation

If this was the case the issues wouldn't the disappearing like it is more most users

Just stop falling for the "oh it's the chip " slow , irrational and dumb rationale just because you don't know how software works
 
hasanahmad said:
Oh please shut up and stop the misinformation

If this was the case the issues wouldn't the disappearing like it is more most users

Just stop falling for the "oh it's the chip " slow , irrational and dumb rationale just because you don't know how software works
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Yea this isn't the case, I have a Samsung A9 and I had huge lag.

After disabling iCloud Drive and restarting Siri Suggestions, I'm into day 2 of no lag.
 
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BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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Who are "we"?
 
cshk9574 said:
I have the stutter/lag on ip6S when I unlock when the phone has been off for little bit...but today I noticed that the "status bar" is missing briefly. And it takes couple of seconds for the status bar comes back and then the phone is ok again....is this maybe happening to you?

The status bar is there on the lockscreen, but as it goes into homescreen it disappears and then comes back.
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I have this same problem with mine. Every time I unlock the phone and the status bar is missing I know the device is going to be unusable for a few seconds.
 
reyalP said:
Please keep us informed.
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issue resolved.

I place my phone on recovery mode and redownloaded a fresh full copy of 9.0.1 back on my phone.

Did not restore my backup, but manually reinstalled all my apps.

Monitored and no unlocking lag

I do not have touch ID and icloud enabled as I don't use those
 
Thanks for the heads up. I still continue to have the unlock lag and missing status bar. I tried to do a restore through itunes but the download speed was so slow. It stated 5 hours to download the 2gb file and in that time the phone rebooted itself about 30 minutes into the download so I gave up. I have 60Mbps internet at home and sometimes downloading from itunes is super fast and sometimes it is super slow.
 
dsc888 said:
My 6S+ was stuttering and freezing too after I restored via icloud. It got really bad yesterday. Rebooting didn't help UNTIL.....I ran the phone out of juice in an effort to recalibrate the battery as I always do with all my phones. Now the phone no longer freezes after unlocking though Touch ID. It's a night and day difference.

Give it a try guys. Run the battery to it shuts off and recharge and see if it fixes your issues.
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I did that last night. So far no freezing but I haven't really used it much today. My battery life isn't anything near what my 6 was. I'm hoping perhaps it just needs some settling in?
 
BJonson said:
Everyone here with lagging and freezing should check to see if you are running the TSMC version of the A9. We have reason to believe the TSMC manufactured A9 chip, which is made with a higher 16nm process, is being under volted to maintain thermal parity with its 14 nm Samsung counterpart. This is causing cpu errata and resulting in freezes.
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My wife and I both have the TSMC chip according to the "System Status" app. She has no lag whatsoever, while my phone does.
 
To everyone who says their unlock lag was present and has now disappeared, are you still seeing the status bar disappear but come back immediately? I had the unlock lag too; it's gone but the status bar still disappears.
 
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