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How to: Speed up your iPhone or iPod Touch

Ace134blue said:
If you think they are the same, then there is no help for you. Sorry :)
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Buddy, it’s your writing. A reboot is holding the home and sleep buttons until the phone restarts. You call that a “reset,” but it’s a REBOOT. For the last time, you described a reboot in 1) and then in 6) you tell people to reboot. YOU wrote the same thing.

I’m done trying to help you. Carry on.
 
-aggie- said:
Buddy, it’s your writing. A reboot is holding the home and sleep buttons until the phone restarts. You call that a “reset,” but it’s a REBOOT. For the last time, you described a reboot in 1) and then in 6) you tell people to reboot. YOU wrote the same thing.

I’m done trying to help you. Carry on.
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You arent making any sense.
RESETTING AND REBOOTING ARE NOT THE SAME THING. Ask anybody. Rebooting is Slide to shut down and turning it back on.
Resetting is different which i guess you're not getting the Jist of
When i reset my phone it stays off
In 6 i tell to restart regularly, not the same thing okay?
 
Guys there's many different ways to reset, reboot, poweroff or hard reset that some call it etc...
When you hold the home and power for several seconds the phone will shut down and reboot again.
Some also call that a hard reset.
Some will turn it off and then hold the power button to turn it back on and will call that a reboot:)
Also it can be done thru sbsettings by hitting power and then reboot.
 
Applejuiced said:
Guys there's many different ways to reset, reboot, poweroff or hard reset that some call it etc...
When you hold the home and power for several seconds the phone will shut down and reboot again.
Some also call that a hard reset.
Some will turn it off and then hold the power button to turn it back on and will call that a reboot:)
Also it can be done thru sbsettings by hitting power and then reboot.
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Yes, but the OP is stating the same thing in his 1) and 6). He just doesn’t realize it.

Also, a reboot is not turning the phone off and turning it back on. That’s simply turning the phone off and then turning it back on.

Oh, and yes, I agree you can also call a reboot, a HARD reset.
 
-aggie- said:
Yes, but the OP is stating the same thing in his 1) and 6). He just doesn’t realize it.

Also, a reboot is not turning the phone off and turning it back on. That’s simply turning the phone off and then turning it back on.

Oh, and yes, I agree you can also call a reboot, a HARD reset.
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I agree.
But some people that dont have a JB iphone so no sbsettings quick reboot button:D
When they say Im going to restart my phone they mean shut it off and then turn it back on.
But no biggie:D
 
We own iPhones, not Androids or Blackberries. There's no reason for us to go through this nonsense.
 
Roo Zilla said:
We own iPhones, not Androids or Blackberries. There's no reason for us to go through this nonsense.
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That's what I was just thinking. I'm going to use all the options that I want to, for a quick phone I see nothing slow about it lol.
 
-aggie- said:
Yes, but the OP is stating the same thing in his 1) and 6). He just doesn’t realize it.

Also, a reboot is not turning the phone off and turning it back on. That’s simply turning the phone off and then turning it back on.

Oh, and yes, I agree you can also call a reboot, a HARD reset.
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lol, i find this hilarious. Yes there is different terminology for what i am saying. But, what ever you wanna call it, reboot or reset. Resetting does different things than using slide to shut down.
In 1 i say to reset. Reason is sometimes when installing big apps, they have low framerate/or do not even start which rebooting does not fix, aka slide to shutdown, so a hard reset fixes the problem. I hope this clears your technical nonsense up.
in 6. I tell to reboot regularly to maintain the os. Not the same thing ok?
 
Ace134blue said:
lol, i find this hilarious. Yes there is different terminology for what i am saying. But, what ever you wanna call it, reboot or reset. Resetting does different things than using slide to shut down.
In 1 i say to reset. Reason is sometimes when installing big apps, they have low framerate/or do not even start which rebooting does not fix, aka slide to shutdown, so a hard reset fixes the problem. I hope this clears your technical nonsense up.
in 6. I tell to reboot regularly to maintain the os. Not the same thing ok?
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You’re using the wrong terminology. What you actually mean for 6) is not a reboot, but a slide to shutdown. If you take away all the posts after your OP,most people are not going to know what you meant, since you are using the wrong terminology. And then in 1), you call this a reset, but it’s actually a reboot or a hard reset. Since you go on to define what you want them to do that’s fine, but if the reader doesn’t read that part they might think a simple reset (which could reset all settings, etc) is what you meant.

All that being said, I really don’t know whether most of what you wrote will help that much for speed. A restore and setup as new does the most, and you write about restoring from a backup (you call the restore an erase, which is just another thing that is going to confuse some newbie to “erase all” and not restore). Anyway, if you’re going to try to write a guide on here, at least get the terminology right. We have enough confusing posts on this site, which lead members astray, without another one.
 
-aggie- said:
You’re using the wrong terminology. What you actually mean for 6) is not a reboot, but a slide to shutdown. If you take away all the posts after your OP,most people are not going to know what you meant, since you are using the wrong terminology. And then in 1), you call this a reset, but it’s actually a reboot or a hard reset. Since you go on to define what you want them to do that’s fine, but if the reader doesn’t read that part they might think a simple reset (which could reset all settings, etc) is what you meant.

All that being said, I really don’t know whether most of what you wrote will help that much for speed. A restore and setup as new does the most, and you write about restoring from a backup (you call the restore an erase, which is just another thing that is going to confuse some newbie to “erase all” and not restore). Anyway, if you’re going to try to write a guide on here, at least get the terminology right. We have enough confusing posts on this site, which lead members astray, without another one.
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Ok, you are getting on my nerves. I am not using the wrong terminology.
Slide to shutdown and turning on is, guess what??, a reboot!
You know what else, guess what a restore does? It ERASES your data? Wow you must find that hard to understand. I said Erase through iTunes, not in settings, and then set it up through a backup.
Holding Sleep and home button is A hard/Reset
Your the only person making this a big deal on what YOU think is the right way to say something. Nobody else is having trouble on understanding what i mean.

And another thing, i could care less whether you think these steps will work. I have tested it myself so i do not need your opinion.
 
Ace134blue said:
Ok, you are getting on my nerves. I am not using the wrong terminology.
Slide to shutdown and turning on is, guess what??, a reboot!
You know what else, guess what a restore does? It ERASES your data? Wow you must find that hard to understand. I said Erase through iTunes, not in settings, and then set it up through a backup.
Holding Sleep and home button is A hard/Reset
Your the only person making this a big deal on what YOU think is the right way to say something. Nobody else is having trouble on understanding what i mean.

And another thing, i could care less whether you think these steps will work. I have tested it myself so i do not need your opinion.
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Everyone that has made any comments to you in this thread, you’ve ignored. And the fact that no one else is commenting on your wording does not mean people understand it; it may mean no one cares what you’ve written.
 
-aggie- said:
Everyone that has made any comments to you in this thread, you’ve ignored. And the fact that no one else is commenting on your wording does not mean people understand it; it may mean no one cares what you’ve written.
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As i said, think what you want. I could honestly care less. I havent ignored anything, some comments do not need a reply, which i think were a total of 3.
 
This thread made me laugh. Thank you OP. :D

Also, I have most of my apps open in the multitasking bar. I have noticed NO slowdowns on my 3GS.

Plus, when I manually closed the apps in the multitasking bar, I didn't notice ANY speedups at all. In fact, I had to wait longer for the apps, that I use the most, to open.
 
Sounds like some of us are a bit nitpicky. Thanks for the info ace, and I appreciate the info since I don't know everything about my iphone and open to learning new things. Thanks for posting.:)
 
From the Apple website:

To turn completely off:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, then slide the slider. Note: When iPhone is off, incoming calls go straight to voicemail.

To turn on:
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
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From Wikipedia:
Reboot usually refers to:

* Booting, an event sequence when (re)starting a computer
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Turning off ("slide to power off") and back on ("Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears") IS rebooting. Exactly as the OP stated in "6."




From the Apple website (cont.):
If you can't turn your iPhone or iPod touch on or off:

You may need to reset. Important: Only reset your iPhone or iPod touch if it is no longer responding. To reset, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
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Looks like Apple calls it a reset. Exactly what the OP called it in "1."

I know better than to feed the trolls, but, whatever.



For what it's worth, I didn't know to reset my [3G] phone periodically, and I came to the forum tonight to specifically look for a solution to my Maps app running ridiculously slow. Having eliminated Spotlight (since I never use it), cleared the Safari cache/history, and RESETTING, it seems to have improved *dramatically*. I'll know more in the coming days as I can test more, but for now, it looks like this thread may have solved my issues. Thanks, Ace.
 
lumine01 said:
From the Apple website:

For what it's worth, I didn't know to reset my [3G] phone periodically, and I came to the forum tonight to specifically look for a solution to my Maps app running ridiculously slow. Having eliminated Spotlight (since I never use it), cleared the Safari cache/history, and RESETTING, it seems to have improved *dramatically*. I'll know more in the coming days as I can test more, but for now, it looks like this thread may have solved my issues. Thanks, Ace.
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Are you running 4.0.x by any chance? Because 4.1 offers vast improvements in this area. That or go back to 3.1.3, that was quite snappy and it's not like you get much benefit being on 4.x.x on a 3G anyways.
 
lucifiel said:
Are you running 4.0.x by any chance? Because 4.1 offers vast improvements in this area. That or go back to 3.1.3, that was quite snappy and it's not like you get much benefit being on 4.x.x on a 3G anyways.
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(Went through a name change on the boards, in case you're wondering. ;))

I am running 4.1. I think I use it just because I'm too lazy to want to mess around with keeping track of what version I want to run, as opposed to allowing iTunes to update things as they happen. If it were to get bad enough, I would definitely consider that an option, though, thanks for the idea. :)
 
Roo Zilla said:
We own iPhones, not Androids or Blackberries. There's no reason for us to go through this nonsense.
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Android has 'smart' multitasking. I never have to clear apps from the RAM on my N1 and it is still as snappy as it was after rebooting.

Stop thinking that the iPhone is the 'best' in all areas. It is not.

And fwiw- my BBB is perfectly stable and I haven't cleared any apps from the RAM.
 
Let's clear this up. Rebooting is shutting down without clearing RAM/Cache. Hard resetting reboots while also clearing RAM/Cache. Yes, he did say HARD Reset.
 
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