[Electronics-talk] IOS 8 and V.O working with delay

LoriLady630 at aol.com LoriLady630 at aol.com
Wed Oct 29 00:34:59 UTC 2014 

 
Hello all, I also am having some problems  with the Iphone 4sAFTER 
DOWNLOADING IOS 8.  All apps now open  extremely slowly  and there seems to be a 
delay whenever I  access Seri, voice over seems to work much slower as does 
accessing any apps.  Anyone else having this problem or know a fix for it? 
Unfortunately there is not a way to go back to IOS 7,  which worked great 
with voice over. 
Thanks, Lori 


 
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1. Re: Do you use an antivirus with your iPhone?  (George)


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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:15:32 +0900
From: "George"  <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and  appliances"
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Subject:  Re: [Electronics-talk] Do you use an antivirus with your
iPhone?
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Hello listers,

My iPhone is working fine  again.

I just want to tell you what happened and about the mistakes I  did, so 
that 
you don't have the trouble I had in case the same happens to  you.

I asked the dealers on the phone and they told me that there were  not many 
checks to do and that the phone was probably broken. According to  them, my 
options were to pay about US$300 to get a similar phone or to  make a new 
two-year contract to get a new one, because my current iPhone  is not on 
guarantee.
I didn't like either option, because my iPhone is  out of guarantee, but I 
still have 4 months to finish with the current  contract; that means that I 
would have to pay like US$200  anyway.
USD300 for a similar phone or USD200 and a two-year contract to get  a new 
one: that's ridiculous! And I was not even sure that my iPhone was  really 
broken after all.
I told them that the new update might be  causing the problem and that I 
would wait for the next update to be  sure.

Well, in fact, I didn't have to wait so long.
In the meantime  I did a recovery, but the computer I used didn't have my 
latest backup.  The recovery didn't help.
I thought that the earphones might work and I  tested them. They worked 
perfectly, so I started using Voiceover with  earphones.
Then I started doing some research on the internet and I came  across an 
article that said that some people had lost audio capabilities  after they 
updated to IOS 8.02; problems with the speakers and with the  mike.
I thought that that might be the problem in my case, but I had been  able 
to 
use the speakers right after updating, so it was a little  suspicious. In 
fact, that was not the problem in my case.
I started to  give up, but, at last, I found an interesting article that 
told 
about the  10 things you should try when the speakers don't work.
I had tried 7 of  them by that time, so, without hope, just in case, I 
tried 
the other  three, without testing for each one.Those were:

1. Took the iPhone  cover out, locate the speakers and be sure that there's 
no dust on them. I  hadn't taken the cover out for a long time.

2. Move the switch on the  left lateral face of the iPhone up and down.

3. Press down on the right  lower corner of the iPhone for about 20 seconds 
(they say the connectors  are there).

I did these three things and turn on my iPhone without any  expectations, 
just in case, but the speakers started working and  everything seemed to 
work 
fine, except for my email address (probably  hacked) and for Siri that 
continued to dial phone numbers randomly every  time I tried to use it.

Why my email address was hacked, I don't know  even now, but the Siri 
problem 
seems to be a bug: it started to work  correctly after i configured it 
again 
(It started dialing random numbers  after I did a software reset).

I still find that Voiceover becomes slow  to act, to read the screen and to 
speak sometimes when I listen to  internet radio live broadcasts and this 
can 
be a bug in Safari or in the  player; it never happened with IOS 6.
When it happens, I touch the screen  many times, particularly on the top, 
and 
Voiceover comes back again.   When it doesn't come back after that, I ask 
Siri to load another page and  the problem gets solved.

Also, I had a hard time to restore my iPhone  from the backup I had in an 
old 
computer; it failed some times, and the  computer became too slow each 
time, 
but finally I did it.  The backup  that succeeded took about 4 hours. After 
the first restoration failed, I  tried to restore again, but I always ran 
out 
of space. Here's the  solution: wait until the next day: it seems that 
iTunes 
leaves a lot of  temporary data on the hard disk, but it was deleted on the 
following  day.
Don't use an old pc for backups.

Conclusion:
There's no  virus in my iPhone, just a lot of bugs and issues that started 
after I  updated to IOS 8. I wanted to downgrade but they don't allow it 
anymore  now; they told me that the files for IOS 7 are not on the server  
anymore.

The other day, I upgraded to IOS 8.1 and I became unable  to turn Voiceover 
off even by clicking the button in Voiceover in the  settings. When I 
checked 
the triple click, I discovered that it had  changed to default. When I 
reset 
it to Voiceover, I could turn Voiceover  off again.
It seems that settings get corrupted somehow after the updates  and that 
starts to cause unexpected problems.

If you are still with  IOS 7.2, I would advise to stay on it for a while; 
there seem to have  appeared some vulnerabilities on it lately, but you 
will 
avoid some  unnecessary headaches.

I will have to update again to solve the  Safari/iPlayer problem when the 
next version comes; I feel that I fell  into an update trap.

By the way, I still like my  iPhone.

HTH
George

----- Original Message ----- 
From:  "George via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To:  "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"  
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Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2014  8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Do you use an antivirus with your  iPhone?


> Thank you, Steve.
>
> This is a good  point. I hadn't thought of that.
>
> George
>
> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Jacobson via Electronics-talk"  <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "George via Electronics-talk"  <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014  10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Do you use an antivirus with  your iPhone?
>
>
>> George,
>>
>> If  you have a dealer near you, I think it would be worth bringing your  
>> phone in and have them run checks on it.
>> From your  description of how you use your phone, it seems unlikely to 
me 
>>  that you have a virus, especially given
>> that IOS 8 is so  new.  In addition to IOS 8 bugs, it is possible that 
you 
>>  have bad memory that is causing a
>> problem.  Especially if  your phone is still on warranty, it would be 
good 
>> to make certain  that there isn't a
>> memory or other hardware  problem.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve  Jacobson
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:32:41 +0900, George  via Electronics-talk wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you, Ray, for the  information.
>>
>>>  > George, based on your  description, I'd say you have a corrupt 
install 
>>>  of
>>>the latest IOS.
>>
>>>  Well, it  worked perfectly ok after I installed the latest version,  
some
>>>days ago, but, suddenly, it became impossible to use  Voiceover and siri
>>>anymore, yesterday.
>>>  My  wife can use it, apparently without any problem; it's just  that
>>>VoiceOver doesn't talk and Siri plays tricks.  That's  why I think it 
>>>might
>>>have a  virus.
>>
>>>  > To put your phone in to UDF  mode, press and hold down both the power
>>>button and the home  button for longer than ten seconds. Your phone will 
 
>>>then
>>>go in to a condition where the only option  is to hard reset or cancel.
>>
>>>  I did that and  the phone restarted automatically.
>>
>>>  >  There is another way to do this.  First, turn Find my phone off on  
>>> your
>>>phone.  Then, completely shut it  down.  Now, with one end of the cable
>>>plugged in to your  computer, plug the other end in to your phone while
>>>pressing  down the home button.
>>
>>
>>>  Well, I  think I have no other choice than doing so.
>>>  I would like  to avoid it if possible, but...
>>>  Do you think there's no  other way around this?
>>
>>>   Thanks,
>>>   George
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