[Electronics-talk] IOS 8 and V.O working with delay
christopher hallsworth
challsworth2 at icloud.com
Wed Oct 29 07:54:01 UTC 2014
I can assure you iOS 8.1 works much better than 8.0x ever will on the 4s. I have it here and have been since a few days before the public release. I am in the Apple Developer Program so had access to the beta. I love 8.1!
> On 29 Oct 2014, at 00:34, LORI via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>
> 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?
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>> 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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