Weird iphone fail???

[Remeniz]

My girlfriend and I went on a road trip and took a break for something to eat.

Anyways, I asked her to show me what she won on ebay. So out comes her iphone 4s and she's there trying to load up the product on her ebay app for 5 minutes... Were both in Mc Donalds on their wifi. So I handed her my SGS2, opened up my ebay app and said 'bring up the product on my phone', and she reluctantly did. She never used my phone and found it in about 10 seconds. I was very smug



So I asked what was wrong with her phone and she said it was acting real slow. So I suggested that she shut down all her apps. This is what got me though...

She has 2000 pictures on her phone that she reckons is slowing it down and to rub salt in the wound she cannot delete any of them from the phone!!!!! Nothing. There simply is no delete option and when connected to her imac she still cannot remove photos. She called apple and they said its a fault, that's it.

So I said 'apple want you to connect to the network when apple say so AND now they won't let YOU delete your OWN photos off your OWN phone??' Well that's crazy.

And the only bad she said about my phone was its a little bit on the large side hunny.....

 

[Baldilocks]

I just think she's doing it wrong. Connect iPhone to iTunes, deselect folders and re-sync. OR, upgrade to iOS 5 and remove folders and pics right from the device, no iTunes needed.

Just as with any computer, when it's near capacity and has probably never been re-booted, it's going to slow down.

 

[Remeniz]

I just think she's doing it wrong. Connect iPhone to iTunes, deselect folders and re-sync. OR, upgrade to iOS 5 and remove folders and pics right from the device, no iTunes needed.

Just as with any computer, when it's near capacity and has probably never been re-booted, it's going to slow down.

Thanks. I'll suggest that. But she has the 64GB model?? Plenty of room.

 

[Baldilocks]

Thanks. I'll suggest that. But she has the 64GB model??

Shouldn't be laggy at all unless it's near capacity. That thing is just as fast, if not faster, than my GS II.

If she has frequent lag or slowdowns (not OS related), then it could be hardware related. (ie: bad network radio or wi-fi radio.) The Apple Store can look into it.

 

[Hrethgir]

She should be able to long-hold on a photo and delete it that way, just like you would to delete an app from the home screen. I had an iPhone 3Gs, and I deleted photos from it all the time like that.

 

[Baldilocks]

She should be able to long-hold on a photo and delete it that way, just like you would to delete an app from the home screen. I had an iPhone 3Gs, and I deleted photos from it all the time like that.

Before iOS 5, you could only delete photos from the Camera Roll folder, not synced folders.

 

[chris2k5]

The words with friends app took 20 minutes to open on my SGS2 while it took 2 seconds on my iPhone.

Android fail. That is why I returned that android crap.

 

[Baldilocks]

The words with friends app took 20 minutes to open on my SGS2 while it took 2 seconds on my iPhone.

Android fail. That is why I returned that android crap.

I think you were doing something wrong. Loads just as fast on my GS II as it does on my iPhone 4.

 

[dylo22]

I think you were doing something wrong. Loads just as fast on my GS II as it does on my iPhone 4.

haha...user fail.

 

[smileyface33]

whoa, if she has the 64gb iphone and it's that slow because of pictures, there's definitely something wrong.. I think if the phone is slow, there's something that being done wrong. unless it's a blackberry. lol my friend's is pretty slow

 

[ashykat]

Tell her to do a hard reset, press and hold both the home button and the sleep/wake button until the phone turns off and the apple logo reappears (don't slide to power off when it comes up). Basically the equivalent of a battery pull.

 

[jerofld]

I think her phone has hardware issues and should be looked at by some apple techie. Phones shouldnt lag even with a filled memory storage, because the phone reserves some space for itself. Or its because someone is downloading torrents on mcdonalds wifi.

 

[ashykat]

I'd try the hard reset before worrying too much...

If it continues then yeah take it in, even then before anything they'll probably suggest you do a restore and set it up as a new phone (as opposed to restoring it from backup) to rule out software issues. If you do all of this ahead of time you'll same yourself some time.

 

[Dark Jedi]

Just tell her to ask Siri.

 

[Remeniz]

Just tell her to ask Siri.

Haha!!

Thanks for the suggestions peeps.