I listen to talk radio every day on ooTunes. I have an old 3GS that streams using my wireless router. The 3GS NEVER drops the stream. I have forgotten about stopping it on occasion, and it will record for over 12 hours without dropping the stream. With my iPhone5, ooTunes drops the stream about every 3 minutes or so. When I set it to stream from WiFi only, it might hold the stream for a little longer, but it drops a lot. When I am in the car, and the stream is coming only from a cell tower, it can hold the stream a very long time (over an hour). I have emailed ooTunes, called Apple support, my router tech service. No help. My conclusion: It is a combination of the iPhone5 hardware and wireless router. So, at home I use the 3GS.
On Monday, December 10, 2012 4:03:31 AM UTC-5, 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.
