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1 edit | [iPhone] My 3G problem list
Some of these are a big step backward from the 2g iphone ! others were there in both, some are just niggles.
1. very slow wifi vs 2g iphone on 802.11n for high latency connections (not fixed by 2.0.1)
2. Iphone frequently goes into 'super slow' typing or touch, as shown by this youtube clip: »www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7n9Vo7mJw
(not fixed by 2.0.1)
3. Certain popular web pages bog the browser down to very slow or even frozen. smh.com.au is one, finance.yahoo.com is another. The page appears but zooming may not re-render to clarity, and typing, scrolling, etc can become impossibly slow.
4. Spontaneous crashes in the browser, and non-trivial yet popular appstore apps.
5. SMS page can take 4+ seconds to appear
6. Auto-brightness appears not to work very well anymore. Under sunlight, a 50% slider does not "auto" to decent brightness, in darkness it does not "auto" to minimal screen brightness. Vs the 2g iphone, any brightness setting of 0 to 50% resulted in a big change in brightness auto on vs off [thats good]. Not so the 3g iphone where "auto" makes very little difference [thats bad].
7. Poor 3g coverage (this is a fault of my carrier). One bar only for 3g, then it falls back to gprs and there are full bars.
8. Ring volume still nothing like the most basic nokia. Too easy to cover up the little noise outlet and render the phone basically silent. Too easy to change the ringer volume accidentally and not realize it is no longer loud enough. I wish the mute slider had a selectable time out.
9. Noticeably poor battery life vs 2g
10. Can't edit a contact while on a phone call (how do you make a note of a new number?)
11. Sometimes it would be nice to stop the auto-rotation to landscape mode. eg when I look at the screen when *I* am horizontal? |
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Dogfather
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| said by Dogfather  :Is there a question here or is this just a rant? It's a "problem list."
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justin
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| reply to Dogfather
yes, the question implicit in this list is which of these problems is definitely peculiar to my phone.
In other words, if someone else has some of these I'd like to know so I can wait for another firmware update, rather than sending the phone back and asking apple to replace it.
I know #2 #4 #9 are common.
#10 and #11 are UI complaints.
#8 is a design issue
that still leaves #1, #3, #5, #6 as possibly just unique to my phone.. |
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hyperjoe
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justin
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bobrk
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justin
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Here, I'll be on topic on your items 1, 3, 5 and 6:
said by justin :1. very slow wifi vs 2g iphone on 802.11n for high latency connections (not fixed by 2.0.1) My WiFi speeds are adequate and average. I don't have a n wireless to compare to, though.
3. Certain popular web pages bog the browser down to very slow or even frozen. smh.com.au is one, finance.yahoo.com is another. The page appears but zooming may not re-render to clarity, and typing, scrolling, etc can become impossibly slow.
I've noticed this. I've attributed it to a slow CPU, perhaps trying to process a lot of javascript.
5. SMS page can take 4+ seconds to appear
Yes, I've seen that.
6. Auto-brightness appears not to work very well anymore. Under sunlight, a 50% slider does not "auto" to decent brightness, in darkness it does not "auto" to minimal screen brightness. Vs the 2g iphone, any brightness setting of 0 to 50% resulted in a big change in brightness auto on vs off [thats good]. Not so the 3g iphone where "auto" makes very little difference [thats bad].
I've never seen this work in the manner that I would expect it to.
I have an original iPhone running 2.0.1.
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| well, auto-brightness worked ok on the 2g iphone.. It was very handy for battery saving. It would sample ambient light once when the screen turns on. In a dark room it would be minimal back-light.
Now I have to set the brightness high (all the time) or i can't use it well outdoors. |
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Why don't they make a simple sliding door to change the battery? This is absolutely silly. This makes the device anything but mobile. A 2nd battery is so simple, yet Apple is dumb enough to think that people won't need this. They also would love to view all the private info you have on your phone when you send it in for them to replace the battery, and then send you a crusty scratched phone back which isn't the same one you sent in. |
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justin
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1 edit | reply to justin
said by justin :#10 and #11 are UI complaints. #11 is not a UI issue. It has to do with the uniformity of gravity regardless of your current body orientation  |
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The iPhone isn't 802.11n compatible.... just 802.11b/g... so your router is probably having to switch from n to g when you connect to it via wifi, that may be part of the problem (especially if you have multiple other devices connected).
Course it has poor battery life compared to 2G, but it's still got equal or better battery life than any other 3G phone you could buy right now.
I totally agree on the edit contact while in a call statement, I've run across that problem once or twice myself.
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| Don't wifi routers broadcast n and b/g at the same time?
The airport says "802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)"
and the other options are
"802.11n"
"802.11n (802.11a compatible)"
"802.11n only (5ghz)"
So what would it be doing to talk to a 802.11b device like the iPhone?
And any idea how to force the airport extreme to be 802.11b only? |
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| reply to justin
I don't have 802.11n, so I can't answer to that.
I'm seeing the same problems with numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, & 11.
3g coverage in my area is excellent. Definitely no complaints there.
As for battery life, I knew the battery life would be worse than 2g, so I don't consider it to really be an issue.
I'll also add another that was supposedly fixed in 2.0.1: The contacts lag. My contacts are unusable for approx 5 seconds after being opened. It seems worse when opening them from the contacts widget from the home screen as opposed to opening them from the phone app. |
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I'm disappointed with..
Battery life with 3G turned OFF!
Falsey advertised apps that you have to pay for.
Stalling - basically the iPhone sometimes takes forever to do something. Much worse since the update. Not always but it happens.
Innacurate GPS - why bother then? |
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1 edit | said by Pentaxian Innacurate GPS - why bother then? I find maps "forgets" to use the GPS at times. It only triangulates via cell tower. This is when I'm outside with zero obstructions...
Restarting the phone seems to get it going again. |
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I am having the same problems as you justin ( all of them ) |
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