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crossfadexx
04-07-2009, 01:20 AM
My iphone always tends to crash and go slow pretty often. I've restored it completely from 100% scratch, and it was good and fast for a few days but its back to being slower.
My main concern is this: My Text messages. I don't know if its apples or ATT's fault. But sometimes, the recipient never receives me texts. Other times, I send a text with 200 letters, and only the last 40 letters are sent to the person.
i text message all the freakin time so this is very annoying. so should I just restore?
jhollington
04-07-2009, 08:25 AM
Are you running the most recent firmware on your iPhone? Is it an original iPhone or an iPhone 3G? Have you jailbroken it and installed anything else other than App Store apps?
The SMS problem is most likely an issue on AT&T's end, since once the iPhone transmits the SMS message to the network, it's up to the carrier to deal with it.
crossfadexx
04-07-2009, 08:57 PM
Yes I have the most recent firmware and a 3g iPhone I got a couple months ago. It is jailbroken yes but I don't know if that has anything to do with it does it? I love my jailbroken iPhone and I don't want to have to put it back in jail.
And I live in a rich city and I always have a consistant amount of att service. It's just sometimes my texts decide not to send to the recipient. Calls also drop
jhollington
04-07-2009, 09:10 PM
The text messages dropping and/or not getting sent is most likely a network issue unless you have specifically installed some SMS-related application.
The other performance and stability issues could be caused by something you've installed since jailbreaking. It's not so much the jailbreaking itself that would cause instability, but rather the fact that you can and may now be running applications that do things with the iPhone OS that it wasn't specifically intended to do. Usually standalone apps aren't a problem, but system hacks/extensions can most definitely be.
Keep in mind that there are no official documented APIs for most of the things these "system hacks" do -- they're done through trial-and-error and reverse-engineering the iPhone OS to experiment and see what works. This means that these apps may not always work as expected, particularly as Apple updates the firmware on the iPhone to new versions that may change things in ways that these apps did not anticipate.