Hi Geoff,

If there are any issues at all with an iPhone in terms of sluggishness or poor 
battery performance it is best to restore to factory settings and set up as a 
new phone. It's a bit of work to set up email again and get everything back how 
you want it, but it can be rewarding since sometimes you can restore problems 
along with everything else.


Regards,
Sieghard


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Geoff Stephens
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: VO not holding focus.

I recently had my iPhone 5, purchased in October 2012, replaced just before the 
warranty expired.  Of course, the replacement phone came with iOS 6 and I had 
to upgrade to iOS 7 before restoring my backup from iCloud.

One thing I noticed was that with the fresh version of iOS 7, it seemed 
snappier and not as prone to focus jump.  After I restored the backup, it 
seemed the same as always.

I don't know if this applies to your particular issue.  In fact, it probably 
does not.  Still, I thought I would mention it.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Sandratomkins
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VO not holding focus.

hi Aman,
Yes I have reduce motion turned on. I have  automatic background refresh turned 
off. and I have followed all the advice for battery conservation and processes 
speed etc. I have my switcher pretty much empty, but one thing I would like to 
know, if I had apps that might drain the battery but they are not running will 
they affect it anyway?

re the battery backup: I actually do have one which isn't too bad. However, I 
prefer to use the iPhone 4 as  my battery backup because in that way I get 
other functionality as well. i'm guessing that the last thing I'll have to try 
is the reset to factory settings option and see if that improves things at all. 
because this loss of focus especially on apps such as the one for my crossword 
puzzle is a serious one it actually means I cannot use the 4 S for  the things 
that I can use it for on the 4.

I will let you know if I managed to find a way to improve things!
Thanks for all your good advice,
Sandy.



Sent from my iPhone

> On 16 Oct 2013, at 16:35, Aman Singer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Sandy.
> Allow me to second Chris' suggestion about the "reduce motion" setting 
> in accessibility. I don't know how much vision you have, but this is 
> strictly a visual effect and, besides somewhat reducing battery life, 
> I found just the same problems you did when "reduce motion" was off.
> Once I turned it on, the problems seem to be either resolved or so 
> close to being resolved that I don't notice them. Note that this isn't 
> just a touch screen thing, as you note, the keyboards had the same 
> issue as do braille displays.
> Secondly, as to batteries, besides Sieghard's suggestion about 
> applications, it may be worth giving an external battery a try. These 
> have grown much smaller and much cheaper over the past few years, and 
> you can triple your iPhone battery life for €30 or so if you don't 
> mind carrying a small device around.
> HTH.
> Aman
> 
>> On 10/16/13, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>>    A year ago, I had planned to sell my old iPhone 4 when I got my new 4s.
>> However, because I use these devices as my computer. Reading books, 
>> doing crosswords, searching the net, email and all that stuff, I 
>> decided to hold on to the old phone to share out the battery power. I 
>> decided not to update the 4  to ios7, it has, of course, downloaded, 
>> but is sitting waiting for me to give the go ahead. Well, having 
>> started life as an ios7 fan, and I do still like many of the bells 
>> and whistles, I have to say that for many of my favourite activities, 
>> I am going back to my old 4. I mentioned, in the below message, that 
>> I can not longer do the Guardian Cryptic Crossword on my 4s with 7.
>> Well, I just took a look on the 4 and what do you think, I can do the 
>> CW just as I always could. So, this is definitely a 7 bug for VO and 
>> it is, as far as I can judge, something that affects many applications and 
>> website functions.
>> 
>>    Finally, I have turned off all the relevant settings that will 
>> drain the battery on my 44s running 7, and still find that the 
>> battery drains at an alarming rate!
>> 
>>    pity 'tis true, but until these issues are addressed, I shall be 
>> using my old 4 for the forseeable future.
>> 
>>    Sandy.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 16 Oct 2013, at 10:58, Sandratomkins 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> HI,
>>> 
>>>   I think there is a genuine problem, using ios7 on my iPhone 4s. 
>>> For example, one of my pleasures in life is to do the Cryptic 
>>> Crossword in the Gardian, most days: until now, I have been able to 
>>> do this using the online app that is used on the website of the paper 
>>> together with vo.
>>> However, this has become increasingly flaky. This morning, it seems, 
>>> that I cannot do it at all! I don't undrstand why this should have 
>>> got worse, but it does eem to have done so. I have performed a 
>>> reset, the one with the power and home buttons, but this hasn't fixed 
>>> anything.
>>> 
>>>   Also, when sending a message, such as this one, I type vip into 
>>> the "to" field and am offered the address for this list, but once 
>>> havingt selected it, especially, when using my BT keyboard, I cannot 
>>> move away from that field, I have to touch the screen to get vo to 
>>> focus anew and then I can use the arrow keys or flick to find the 
>>> edit field for the subject line.
>>> 
>>>   I know that people have mentioned the problems with focusing, here 
>>> on this list before, I just wanted to say that I am still finding 
>>> this, after having played with the latest update since the first day 
>>> it came out. I wanted to give it time to see what was a bug and what 
>>> was user error, and I have to say that this is definitely not user 
>>> error. Neither do I think it a bug for non vo users,, so it is 
>>> unlikely to be addressed by apple, unless we make them aware of it.
>>> However, I am always loath to submit a suspected bug before I have 
>>> assured myself that others are also experiencing the same thing. So, 
>>> is anyone else have problems with vo holding focus?
>>> 
>>>   TIA, Sandy.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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