Thread: Iphone 3Gs great but really buggy

Try removing all pictures from the phone.

I tried it to fix the same problem on my wife's iphone 4, I won't mention that I had something like five hundred more pictures and dunno how many more apps on my phone and no speed problems.

Try removing all pictures from the phone.

No pictures, no videos
The phone has never been "jailbroken" and has been legally derestricted from Vodaphone, and now on Telstra next G.
There is 1015 songs on it AFAIR about 2.4 megs , and it has 9.3 megs free space.
Regards Philip A
And only standard apps.

GPS really only works outdoors. Indoors the phone is trying to triangulate using mobile phone towers and you won't get a very accurate position, regardless of the make or model. That's why there are a number of outdoor gps-based orientation aids for blind people but hardly any indoor ones.

Chris

Phillip, you might consider reverting to an earlier iOS.

The GPS is woefully slow get lock if you have cellular data turned off. I do 'cos I'm on a pre-paid plan and data costs $2/MB. I'm using a 3G given to me by my daughter when she changed to an iPhone 4.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

My son recently gave me his out of contract 3Gs and I am gradually getting familiar with it.

I love its functionality BUT I am getting very frustrated with the bugs.

It has been updated with the latest software version 4.3.2 (8H7) only a week ago.
Today I used it to try and redirect my TV antenna by using the compass to give my lat Long. I wondered why the TV picture was not so good, until I found that inside the house it placed me at least 1Km away from my house. It was only outside that I could get a GPS fix to get the correct Lat Long and it immediately reverted to the incorrect as soon as I went inside.AAAARGH!
Then I started to update my contacts and it began to freeze. Froze several times or was reaaaalllly sloooow to react to keystrokes , up to several seconds. OK , I know the fix. You have to delete all the background running programs. Double click menu, icons wobble hit the minus.

STILL DOESN"T WORK.

OK do the old microsoft reboot. Turn it off with the on/off button. Wait 10 seconds, walk around the D3 ( whoops that's the LR reboot). turn it on and EUREKA! it works for the moment.
Now I am assured by various internet sites that this is normal and that there is an additional "hard reset" where you hold down the on/off AND the menu buttons for 10 seconds simultaneously, although my son reckons you have to actually hold down the menu button an additional 30 seconds after you let go the on/off button, while holding your tongue in the correct position.

WHAT a CROCK!!!
You Apple people have been raving on about Saint Jobs for years .
The product is immature.
You would rubbish Microsoft unmercifully if the same happened with a Windows computer.
I am now older but wiser.
Regards Philip A

Phillip
How are you rebooting it to reboot it properly you need to hold down 2 buttons not just the simple suspend of the OS

Duane

How are you rebooting it to reboot it properly you need to hold down 2 buttons not just the simple suspend of the OS

As I said I haven't yet had to hold down the on/off and menu simultaneaously, as it is working OK at the moment.
Are these the two buttons you are referring to? or is there another button?
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by p38arover

Phillip, you might consider reverting to an earlier iOS.
The GPS is woefully slow get lock if you have cellular data turned off. I do 'cos I'm on a pre-paid plan and data costs $2/MB. I'm using a 3G given to me by my daughter when she changed to an iPhone 4.

It doesn't use data to get a lock, only to download maps on the fly. The gps info for the lock is part of the background "conversation" between the towers and phone that let it know they are there. You are getting data and location services mixed up I think. If you open Google maps or Motion x then the data will start to flow. Using Sygic or Tom Tom won't use data as the maps are on the phone.
It's a pretty crummy gps that I would not rely on anywhere out of phone signal range. The gps reception in remote places drops out very easily. I've tested mine many times and it's a fail. The ipad gps is a lot better.

When the iPhone crashes or locks up in a way that prevents the iPhone from responding to the normal iPhone restart procedure, you need to reset the iPhone. Here's how to reset iPhone.

1. Reset the iPhone by holding the sleep/wake button at the top right of the device and the home button at the bottom center of the face at the same time.
2. Hold them both until you see the screen go black and the white Apple logo appear.
3. When this happens, you can let go - the iPhone is rebooting.

An iPhone reset will not normally remove or delete any data or settings.


This might help I find its best to do it once a week or so