Is your 3G iPhone a bit laggy?

[ventmore]

My backup restored just fine when I went from 345 to 347.

With 347, the contacts app is still laggy, and I still find scrolling in general (contacts, mail and even settings) a little choppy. It does seem to have made a bit of difference though. Text entry doesn't seem as laggy, and bringing up the contacts list when sending an email seems a lot quicker.

 

[wonderbread57]

This is a very peculiar kind of lag. It is just like the lag in a first person shooter when the connection is going bad. It looks like the frame rate goes down to 2-5fps. I wonder if the OS is doing something cute like down clocking the CPU and when you launch something it doesn't lock it up fast enough. Or some applications it is using too slow a clock speed so you get lagged text entry. I'm not sure but laggyness is huge pet peve, in first person shooters and new tech.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

My backup restored just fine when I went from 345 to 347.

With 347, the contacts app is still laggy, and I still find scrolling in general (contacts, mail and even settings) a little choppy. It does seem to have made a bit of difference though. Text entry doesn't seem as laggy, and bringing up the contacts list when sending an email seems a lot quicker.

So basically there's no confirmation that 347 does anything.

I have lag in contacts and sometimes in texting SMS, but after READING about 347, suddenly SMS typing was lag free.

I think it's a placebo. From reading this thread, it sounds like 347 doesn't do anything to help, it just makes it think it does, seeing as how I get the same "seem to have helped" effect just after reading about 347. My SMS typing is lag free and I haven't done anything to it.

 

[ventmore]

Not really a placebo. Text entry definitely doesn't seem as bad, but I'm not drawing any real conclusions until I've ran it for a while, as the old firmware seemed to get worse the longer the phone had been on.

Hopefully Apple are already on with 2.0.1, as there seems to be a fair few bugs with this release

 

[peteo]

yes, but there's some interesting behavior to some apps. for example, AIM. if you leave the setting set to not log out upon exit, when you go to another app and come back to aim, you're still logged in and if you received messages while you were away, the messages have been received and waiting for you (you just don't get an alert while outside of the app). I'm not entirely sure what's going on to allow that to happen, but it just seems interesting

AOL's Iphone AIM web site states that AIM runs in the back ground for 5 minutes after you close it. a Future version will allow you get message when the app is closed passed 5 minutes (using Apples msg api I assume)

http://daol.aol.com/software/mac/iphone/aim/faq

 

[wonderbread57]

Complaint post #2 from me:

Just to explore my pet peve of laggy text entry a little: this has to be the most inexcusable problem for a high tech device. My last verizon phone, a Samsung sch-a970 had the same issue when texting. Sometimes you would get ahead of it and your latest entries wouldn't show up or the entries in between wouldn't show up. Laggyness is associated with slow CPU and with current smartphones/PDAs having processors hundreds(thousands) of times faster than the 90's, how is it that the most basic task of getting text input from the device turns out to be the most difficult/slow?? It is like the problem of MS windows. No matter how much hardware you throw at it, windows always ends up being slow. To me, this is unforgivable. If the phone can't handle text entry it's a really bad sign for how it handles anything sophisticated. Granted, more sophisticated things seem to work fine on the iPhone but the question still stands why something so computationally simple as text entry can't be achieved without issues. I mean come on, how long have computers been getting input from keyboards, you would think they had this problem solved.

 

[Andrmgic]

This has to be a firmware issue. I am confident that it will be fixed in a future release.

 

[ventmore]

This has to be a firmware issue. I am confident that it will be fixed in a future release.

Agreed. The fact that 1st gen phones are experiencing the same issue with the new firmware, but were fine before the upgrade suggests it's almost certainly a firmware issue.

 

[FreakinSyco]

I came here to post a thread about this exact issue. I get lag while typing SMS messages occasionally. A restart fixes it. A buddy mentioned he gets the same issue so I came here to post about it and lo and behold a lot of people are having this issue.

I definitely didnt get this before. Maybe a software update will fix it.

 

[mimizone]

any way to inform apple ?
anybody is part of the developer mailing list?

 

[wonderbread57]

Just go to an Apple store and talk to a Mac Genius. They will confirm the problem, take note of it, and send it up the food chain. Hopefully we will see it addressed in the next firmware if we are lucky.

 

[AJ Muni]

After a couple of days of running 347, lag is still there. what crap

 

[ScottFitz]

I'm getting some lag as well. I think my biggest lag is because I have 1800 customer contacts loaded up on it! I did go in and divide my address book up in Outlook by state and it makes searches much faster when I just open up the proper state.

But yeah, it's laggy overall compared to my ipod touch.

 

[wonderbread57]

I'm getting some lag as well. I think my biggest lag is because I have 1800 customer contacts loaded up on it! I did go in and divide my address book up in Outlook by state and it makes searches much faster when I just open up the proper state.

But yeah, it's laggy overall compared to my ipod touch.

Try turning location services off then going to the contacts again. Let us know if it goes faster. I heard some place that the contacts page gets gps coordinates for some reason which slows it down.

 

[wonderbread57]

Another thing to try: hold the home button for 5-10 seconds. This should close all background programs (including safari etc which are allowed to run in bg). Now go to contacts or try texting. Lag should be fixed.

 

[ventmore]

Another thing to try: hold the home button for 5-10 seconds. This should close all background programs (including safari etc which are allowed to run in bg). Now go to contacts or try texting. Lag should be fixed.

I understood that only performed a "Force quit" on the app you were currently in.