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Is your iPhone 4 100% smooth?

Is you iphone 100% smooth ?

  • Yes. Its has always been smooth 100% of the time

    Votes: 116 57.7%

  • No. It used to be , but after 4.1 it started to get little glitches sometimes.

    Votes: 35 17.4%

  • No. It never was 100% smooth.

    Votes: 50 24.9%
  • Total voters
    201
  • Poll closed .
sectime said:
Small rant, but that's what I mean when I say that not everyone is sensitive to these types of issues.

Is the world better or worse off because of this observation? Clearly you are a special person, as you posted. Most can see defects, design quirks, flaws in every thing made by people. But your type can see more cause your "special" skills allow it. Such a load of crap. Take a walk and enjoy.
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I don't have special skills, I just naturally pick up on details that most other people would overlook.

The only way I can describe how I am is to say I'm sensitive to flaws involving framerates. I can see screen tearing, framedrops bother me, I notice judder and it's just the way I am. I don't feel elite because of it. Actually I kinda wish I didn't notice things like this.

At any rate, Apple knows of the problem and I'm sure they're working on a fix. Why wouldn't you want your iPhone using less CPU cycles when idling?

If the developers over at Apple weren't as perfectionistic as me, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of polish in their products as we all take for granted.
 
Amino Man said:
I don't have special skills, I just naturally pick up on details that most other people would overlook.

The only way I can describe how I am is to say I'm sensitive to flaws involving framerates. I can see screen tearing, framedrops bother me, I notice judder and it's just the way I am. I don't feel elite because of it. Actually I kinda wish I didn't notice things like this.

At any rate, Apple knows of the problem and I'm sure they're working on a fix. Why wouldn't you want your iPhone using less CPU cycles when idling?

If the developers over at Apple weren't as perfectionistic as me, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of polish in their products as we all take for granted.
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I agree with you Amino Man, I'm just an average Joe Schmoe and it's noticeable you gotta be a complete idiot not to..... every time I notice my iPhone 4 stuttering..(because its a stutter in the animation not a lag) I feel like punching Steve Jobs in the Pancreas!!!
 
Amino Man said:
I don't have special skills, I just naturally pick up on details that most other people would overlook.

The only way I can describe how I am is to say I'm sensitive to flaws involving framerates. I can see screen tearing, framedrops bother me, I notice judder and it's just the way I am. I don't feel elite because of it. Actually I kinda wish I didn't notice things like this.

At any rate, Apple knows of the problem and I'm sure they're working on a fix. Why wouldn't you want your iPhone using less CPU cycles when idling?

If the developers over at Apple weren't as perfectionistic as me, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of polish in their products as we all take for granted.
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I could care less about CPU cycles at idle.
 
Amino Man said:
I don't have special skills, I just naturally pick up on details that most other people would overlook.

The only way I can describe how I am is to say I'm sensitive to flaws involving framerates. I can see screen tearing, framedrops bother me, I notice judder and it's just the way I am. I don't feel elite because of it. Actually I kinda wish I didn't notice things like this.

At any rate, Apple knows of the problem and I'm sure they're working on a fix. Why wouldn't you want your iPhone using less CPU cycles when idling?

If the developers over at Apple weren't as perfectionistic as me, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of polish in their products as we all take for granted.
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I'm like you. :)

I got lag when playing with my mates iPhone 4. He regularly clears the multitasking bar but I still managed to get Mail to crap out. Also, I have seen the random UI glitches when using the phone. It's the UI transitions that have suffered over time. I remember when I got my 3G it never had any lag or slowdown with any animations or transitions but having seen several iPhone 4's they all seem to be at it at some point or another.

It certainly doesn't put me off buying one but it's definately not as fast and fluid on new devices as it was in the past. iOS that is.
 
sectime said:
I could care less about CPU cycles at idle.
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I KNOW you couldn't care less about CPU cycles, but the harder the CPU is working, the slower the iPhone is going to preform. It doesn't matter to me if you care about it or not, but I actually do care about it so don't try to bring me down for it.

Some people worry about every nearly invisible scratch while I just want the software to run like it did when I bought the iPhone 4.
 
I made some new discoveries about this odd behavior. Read below:

First of all, let me just say that all of my apps are closed and are not in the multitasking bar.

1. I start up camera.app (nice and smooth animation) and do nothing.
2. I close camera.app (just going back to the homescreen). This is also very smooth.
3. I open photos.app (nice and smooth animation)
4. Then I go back to the home screen and open photos again. This time it's not smooth. It's jumping to the foreground and the flying icon animation is missing.
5. Each time I open photos.app after it starts doing this, is the same as #4.

Here's another odd discovery:

Again... I've quit all apps. Nothing is in the multitasking bar.

1. Start up camera.app (nice and smooth animation).
2. Do not take a photo and tap the photo browser button in the lower left corner.
3. When the photo browser pops up, hit the home button and return to the home screen.
4. Open photos.app. (nice and smooth animation).
5. Go back to homescreen and open Photos again. (Smooth animation again!)
6. Photos.app will continue to open smoothly every time now.
7. Open camera.app again (not smooth. It features the same animation skip as #4 in the first test above.)

Once either Camera.app and Photos.app starts stuttering like that, I can make it stop by completely quitting photos.app AND camera.app (I have to quit both).

I think there may be something wrong with the HDR feature built into camera on iOS 4.1. I'm really hoping Apple can bring back the smoothness of 4.0.2 in a future update.

Thank you for your time.
 
First quit all your apps from the Multitasking bar so to be sure that we're running the same way.

1. Open Safari
2. Load a web page (I do Apple.com)
3. Press the button on the bottom right (the new tab button)
4. You'll see a your webpage with an (x) in the corner
5. Do not touch anything and press the home button.
6. Open Safari again (the animation should be smooth as butter so far)
7. Turn the iPhone to landscape mode and wait for Safari to turn sidways
8. With your iPhone still sideways, press the home button.
9. Now turn your iPhone back to normal and tap Safari again.
10. This time the animation is just the last half of the normal animation. Safari just pops into place with a short zoom.

Normally, you'll have the homescreen icons flying off the screen at the same time the window smoothly zooms toward you.

If you did my steps correctly, you should see that Safari does a short version of the normal animation and that the first half of the animation (flying icons) is skipped altogether.

I know that you're not likely going to do all of that stuff on a daily basis, it's just an experiment that works for me every single time to produce the bad animation.

You may also notice photos or camera doing this after using the camera.

So please follow my instructions EXACTLY and then tell me what it looks like.
 
I know what Amino Man's talking about, but it doesn't bother me. Like him, I'm also sensitive to judder, tearing, and skipped frames. I just ignore it and it doesn't detract from my enjoyment.
 
I have noticed the same issue Amino Man mentioned, but it doesn't annoy me enough to make me stop using the phone.
 
Amino Man said:
I don't see how it's delusional. We have the same iPhone right? I've also done a full restore with no backup. I've also done an upgrade. I've also upgraded my brother's iPhone 4 and saw the same problem.

I'm pretty comfortable in believing that there are no magical iPhones out there running a special build of 4.1 that doesn't have the same bugs in it that I have.

Same software, same hardware = same bugs.

It's not my fault that you're don't pay attention enough to notice the problem I speak of or you just don't care enough to notice the problem.

Tell you what, I could drive to your house right now, snatch your iPhone and show you the problem using your iPhone, but I don't have the energy or resources to do that.

So instead, you're just going to have to believe me because I've done all the necessary tests to prove to myself that there are some problems with 4.1 that were NOT in 4.0.2.

To say that your software doesn't have the same bugs mine has is delusional.
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Stop trying to tell other people how their phone is operating. You sound extremely whiny and upset that everyone is not agreeing with you. Also I see the animation in the Apple video.
 
3N16MA said:
Stop trying to tell other people how their phone is operating. You sound extremely whiny and upset that everyone is not agreeing with you. Also I see the animation in the Apple video.
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I know how their iPhones are running. I'm strictly talking about the iPhone 4 though because I haven't had a chance to test a 3GS. Also, the new iPod touch has the same problem.
 
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