Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Phone Locks up often during multitasking i4?

C

cjrulli

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 3, 2010
237
82
My iPhone 4 likes to lock up on me when closing apps in multitasking and it'll just sit there with the multitasking screen up not allowing me to do anything. I usually have to wait 45secs-2mins for it to unfreeze or just do a reset with the home/lock button.

Does this happen to anyway else? Any suggestions on what I should do? It has done this on 4.0, 4.1, and now 4.2 no changes.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)

Just curious, what apps are you closing out when it locks up? Are you closing 1-2 apps, or 7,8,10 apps?

I've read several comments like this when closing several apps, but I've never experienced this.
 
I have experienced freezing when closing a lot of apps from the multitasking bar.

Not anywhere near 45 secs - 2 minutes though. But there's definitely a small bug in there somewhere.
 
cjrulli said:
My iPhone 4 likes to lock up on me when closing apps in multitasking and it'll just sit there with the multitasking screen up not allowing me to do anything. I usually have to wait 45secs-2mins for it to unfreeze or just do a reset with the home/lock button.

Does this happen to anyway else? Any suggestions on what I should do? It has done this on 4.0, 4.1, and now 4.2 no changes.
Click to expand...
Yes, this has happened to me since launch day and the phone just about never fails to lock up at least once when closing out of apps still. For 45 seconds to 2 minutes, too.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)

Is anyone noticing a definite pattern with the lock up?

For example, does the hangup always include closing SMS as others mentioned?
 
I've never experienced this behavior before, though I've not specifically tried to close the SMS app. Why even bother force-closing that one, by the way?
 
I just closed out of about 13 apps and for the first time it didn't lock up. I saved the SMS app for last. It did briefly lock up after that one.
 
To the people experiencing this problem, did you set your phone up as new or restore from backup?

I set my phone up as new and never experienced this, even after closing some 40 app including the phone app and sms app.
 
I set my phone up as new and I've noticed this as well. It's definitely something with the SMS app as anytime I'm closing apps as soon as I hit that one it sits there for at least 30 seconds. Sometimes it doesn't do it but it happens at least 3 times a day.

That's the only bug I've really noticed so far.
 
frosse said:
Why bother closing any apps really? :confused:
Click to expand...

I wrote in the other thread - but personally (and I don't care what any techie or Apple says) have seen up to a 10 percent battery drain on any given day when I had my task manager (ooops I mean fast switching bar) full of apps. And these are not apps that "multitask"

I tested thoroughly for 2 weeks. Other people might experience something different and maybe it's a particular app or combo - but it is without a doubt something I have experienced.

Is it definitively the task bar - maybe not. But in my scenario - I prefer to "play it safe" and kill the apps and reclaim the up to 10 percent battery loss in a full day.
 
I can close countless third part apps but when I attempt to close the phone related ones (phone&messages) I usually lock up for at least 20 seconds. Has happened with trying to close other apps but not even as close to as often.
 
frosse said:
Why bother closing any apps really? :confused:
Click to expand...

Because its annoying when you want to get to a certain app and Apple has more or less given you a quick access bar for things running in the background but instead to get to that app i have to scroll through a handful of apps I opened once while I was bored earlier in the day but do nothing in the background. They need to change it to where if it does not run in the background like Pandora or Skype then it never gets put on that bar to begin with. The way things currently are its just easier to use the regular screens to load programs which I do not think that was Apples intent.... Sry for the rant.
 
samcraig said:
I wrote in the other thread - but personally (and I don't care what any techie or Apple says) have seen up to a 10 percent battery drain on any given day when I had my task manager (ooops I mean fast switching bar) full of apps. And these are not apps that "multitask"

I tested thoroughly for 2 weeks. Other people might experience something different and maybe it's a particular app or combo - but it is without a doubt something I have experienced.

Is it definitively the task bar - maybe not. But in my scenario - I prefer to "play it safe" and kill the apps and reclaim the up to 10 percent battery loss in a full day.
Click to expand...

yeah this is definitely true. I tested it tonight, usually when I'm at work by the time I get off my battery is around 76 percent with nothing left in the app tray.

Tonight I left only the sms app and after I got off of work my battery is at 58 percent with the same amount of usage; and of course when I got home and finally closed the sms app my phone locked up.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back