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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 233)
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stilez
I've read dev reports while testing, that Multitasking made 3G phones suuuuuuuuuper slow. Decided to pass on it for now. I'll have it all soon enough when I purchase my new iPhone 4 ;) |
One thing I learned about you, you're way too fast to jump the gun w/o properly examining things.
The Dev Team report was based on apps that didn't have the multitasking API. Without the proper API, there's no save state and oh course it's gonna run whacked. Without the save state, the app doesn't freeze in real time. Compare the two videos, steve jobs running tap tap revenge @ the 4.0 presentation and the IP4 commercial. When you switch between apps, the game freezes and has count down to resume. The IP4 commercial keeps running. Apple urges everyone to update their apps, since the Devs added that API.
Into my review since last night, multitasking is ultra slick and indeed it's the best out of all the OS I've tried. Blackberry / Nokia multitasking and backgrounding, everything is running causing major CPU, batt and making it super slow & chunky.
Proformance wise, minus the home screen respringing ... So far it's the same speed as 3.0 w/ winterboard running. I've heard many reports of removing the shadows from your icons will speed things up, I'll give it a shot tonight.
Since I've used multitasking for a brief few hours, I don't think I can go back now. Might be little slow @ times, it's not crawling like other OS's and it's worth keeping on 3G.
Edit: My buddy's unit is defective, he couldn't run SF on 3.0 w/o winterboard smoothly. |
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| Abercrombie |
I haven't seen sluggishness in multitasking yet. What I found intriguing about the multitasking... all apps don't close, they just are put in the background... I realized that I had over a dozen apps running simultaneously. I shut down a;; the apps I wanted in the menu... but I feel iOS4 should give you the option of either closing the app alltogether of have it still running... I don't see the logic of having every app still running by default.
In the meantime... nice and organized :)
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I haven't seen sluggishness in multitasking yet. What I found intriguing about the multitasking... all apps don't close, they just are put in the background... I realized that I had over a dozen apps running simultaneously. I shut down a;; the apps I wanted in the menu... but I feel iOS4 should give you the option of either closing the app alltogether of have it still running... I don't see the logic of having every app still running by default.
In the meantime... nice and organized :)
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You won't feel anything until you start with the heavy apps running in backgrounding. Example: backgrounding - Streaming music, navigations and surfing |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I haven't seen sluggishness in multitasking yet. What I found intriguing about the multitasking... all apps don't close, they just are put in the background... I realized that I had over a dozen apps running simultaneously. I shut down a;; the apps I wanted in the menu... but I feel iOS4 should give you the option of either closing the app alltogether of have it still running... I don't see the logic of having every app still running by default.
In the meantime... nice and organized :)
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The apps don't run in the background, they just go "on Hold". There's only a couple that will actually keep running, such as Voip and streaming ect...
I was able to download and install in 40 minutes. Love the fact that my hotmail account can now be in the mail setup! The OS definitely seems to be quicker too. |
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| djeso |
| I just updated my iphone to OS4, and the multi-tasking, it's not really multi-tasking when I switch between apps, they simply restart? folder and ability to change the bg i'm happy with, however I'm having problems with my email(error during moving/deleting emails and to odd couldn't connect to server), and internet connection seems to be slower by 33%, used to be able to read pdf documents, not anymore. Been having all but problems .... what happen to the "... it just works..." because it just doesn't work for me right lol. Guess I should go to that mac store for some help lol |
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| Brennen |
I updated and jail broke my 3G today and I haven't had a single problem. Everything is working as it should. I enabled multitasking and home screen wallpapers. Its cool that it spell checks now even in text messages.
Overall, good update and it went very smooth. Only thing I could bitch about its that it took forever. |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by djeso
I just updated my iphone to OS4, and the multi-tasking, it's not really multi-tasking when I switch between apps, they simply restart? folder and ability to change the bg i'm happy with, however I'm having problems with my email(error during moving/deleting emails and to odd couldn't connect to server), and internet connection seems to be slower by 33%, used to be able to read pdf documents, not anymore. Been having all but problems .... what happen to the "... it just works..." because it just doesn't work for me right lol. Guess I should go to that mac store for some help lol |
Are you double clicking the home button to see the multitasking apps, or just clicking the apps like normal? |
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| VDub |
The only thing sluggish on my 3G are the maps app and the stores..
Everything else is same as before...
As a matter of fact, switching between pages is actually faster...
One weird thing is that she's legit now but the phone retained the Erica carrier mod and the battery percentage meter...
But the Erica app is gone so I can't change it back to Rogers... |
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| djeso |
| quote: | Originally posted by cammaxwell
Are you double clicking the home button to see the multitasking apps, or just clicking the apps like normal? |
double clicking |
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| cammaxwell |
| quote: | Originally posted by djeso
double clicking |
Weird? |
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| Jer |
Keep in mind that pretty much ALL apps need to be written to take advantage of the new Multitasking features so a great deal of them won't "feel" like they're multitasking.. Not yet at least.
Give it a month or so and we'll see updates for nearly everything.
Cam's right though, there's two different levels of "Multitasking" - There will be applications that simply freeze state and then there's applications that require real-time interaction, say a GPS navigator. This is what helps keep resources in check and will help keep battery life reasonable. |
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