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Slowed down iPhone 4

My camera app takes about 8-9 seconds to open.

I'm reading people are opening the camera app, timing it, then closing all opened apps, and testing it again then saying "Its faster".

Well boys and girls, that's not the cause of the slow down of the camera app. At least not for me.

Once I open the camera app, its slow. If I close it and then re open it, without closing any other apps, it opens in about 2 seconds.

If I leave the app loaded (not opened) for awhile, it will start off slow again. Closing and restarting it opens it up faster.
If I open the app, then close it, then completely shut it down. And then reopen it from scratch, it'll open in about 5 seconds.

Shutting down any other apps has no affect on the speed of opening the camera app.

So for me, the speed is only affected by how long it has been since I last had it open and in use. Any other apps loaded or not does not affect the speed in any way.

Again, this is only on my end. But I think a lot of people are only testing half way thus giving a belief they've found the cause.
 
Small White Car said:
The point is that the OP is not looking for terminology or dictionay definitions. He's looking for actual solutions to a problem.

When troubleshooting, you need to know what the things you are doing are actually doing behind the scenes.

So it's very useful to know, for example, that not everything in the multitasking tray is multitasking. I consider that to be very important information for the OP. If you don't know things like that you can end up chasing your tail in circles as you try things and yet don't understand the things you're trying.

I see no reason to not explain that. He's asking for information so we should give him as much as we can. You ask that I keep secrets from him? Let him figure it out on his own? I don't see the reasoning behind that. He asked for info, I try to provide it.
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Yep I couldn't agree more. And I'm pretty sure I didn't ask anyone to keep secrets, so don't get too excited there mate. :D

If it's not an issues of terminology, then why try and be a smarty pants and correct the poster telling him 'that's not a multitasking bar' in the first place? It is a multitasking bar. So I'm sorry but you're just wrong on that point.

In your original post you implied that the apps that are frozen in the background that aren't a possible cause of performance issues if they are not performing tasks:

"And games don't multi-task. They freeze their state. That has nothing to do with it. I have also noticed this slowdown but I know it has nothing to do with apps. It's the same right after a re-start when nothing has been run yet, so 'being out of RAM' isn't the culprit."

I've explained that save state is multitasking and uses resources, and others have given more details about the amount of RAM that an accumulation of apps can chew up.

iOS is supposed to be able to pull back memory from Apps that are hogging it when they are frozen in the background, by simply purging the offending Apps. But maybe there is a problem with the process?

The interesting thing is that 'force quitting' Apps from the multitasking bar and restarting works for some users, and not for others. So maybe the we need a show of hands who it works for or doesn't work for along with hardware / iOS combo.

Seriously dude take it easy hey? :) We're all having fun aren't we?
 
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Little test to run

With Apps running (say 20+) and when you encounter performance issues, such as the camera load time, does force quitting all Apps (delete from multitasking bar) and hard reset make an improvement in camera load time or other performance?

I know it's not very scientific, but hey could be interesting...

1. Yes / No
2. Hardware / iOS
 
prestomusic said:
With Apps running (say 20+) and when you encounter performance issues, such as the camera load time, does force quitting all Apps (delete from multitasking bar) and hard reset make an improvement in camera load time or other performance?

I know it's not very scientific, but hey could be interesting...

1. Yes / No
2. Hardware / iOS
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1. Yes
2. iPhone 4, 4.2.1 non-JB without doing a hard reset, just deleting apps in multi-tasking dock.
 
1. yes
2 iPhone 4 / 4.2.1

And for what it's worth, yes I know that the camera app (and all apps) opens faster when you open it the second time. But when you clear out your apps it seems to open significantly faster than before whether it's "multitasking" or not. if that makes sense
 
Good to see a thread on this. I too have noticed my phone being slow, particularly with the camera.

When I first got my phone the camera was lightning quick. Opened instantaneously and switched between photo and video nearly as quick.

Now it sometimes takes a solid 6-7 seconds for the camera to open or to switch between photo and video. Of course, during this time, many photo "opportunities" pass you by.

I don't even play games on my phone so I can't blame it on that
 
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