Just posted to let you know same problem here. I was an early adopter of the iPhone 5. I noticed I couldn't stream music without it halting every 5-10 seconds. Unless I was running Pandora on low quality, I couldn't stream music without it halting every few minutes. I chalked it up to a defective iPhone 5. After almost a year, I dropped that iPhone 5 and recently got a replacement iPhone 5 (AppleCare+). Guess what? The new one has the same problem - even worse. I download apps from the Apple Store about 6x slower than 3G and 20x slower than LTE. Wonder how much Verizon paid Apple to nerf WiFi bandwidth to make people use more data.
Next phone I get is an Android. My iPhone 4s was the most reliable phone I've ever had. Sad that as time goes on, things get crappier. Old age I guess? On Monday, December 10, 2012 1:03:31 AM UTC-8, Grant Hardy wrote: > > Hi all, > > For a few weeks now I've been trying to ignore this problem, or chalk > it up to an unreliable data connection, problem with the station I'm > trying to listen to, or some other thing which isn't the fault of my > iPhone. > > Here's the reality. When placed beside each other on a table and > connected to the exact same WIFI network, streaming the same station > in tandem, my older iPhone 4S can play for hours without any problem. > My 5, on the other hand, constantly buffers, skips, and disconnects > for several seconds. Streaming radio is basically useless on my iPhone > 5, because it just doesn't work reliably. I'd say every fifteen to > thirty seconds there's a hiccup in the stream, usually a pause of > several seconds. > > I really don't get where the problem lies, because I've swapped my > phone a couple of times for unrelated issues and I remember having > streaming problems on those other phones too. It doesn't matter what > station I stream, which app I use (Safari, Ootunes, Tunein, or a > number of other radio apps I tried in the app store). Doesn't matter > which WIFI network I'm on, or if I'm on LTE or 3G. The problem still > persists. > > Have set up as a new iPhone, reset all settings, reset network > settings, done a restore in iTunes, and just can't get the problem to > go away. > > I'd would have thought this was a hardware problem, but weirdly, other > data works impeccably. No issues with Skype, iTunes Match, mail, or > even apps like podcast clients--streaming audio that is not live, > works fine. It just seems to be live, streaming audio that's the > problem. > > Does anybody have any idea what could possibly be the problem? Can > anyone confirm whether they can use apps like Ootunes on an iPhone 5 > with zero issues? > > Grant > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
