bab2010 said:
wrong. While in theory what you are saying is correct, it's wrong when practicing it. While back when i was having the iPhone 4, i did an experience on my iPhone 4 and proving that the more apps you have in the switcher, the less ram available you have but a lot of inactive ram memory. by the time your free ram will reach 12mb, you will experience phone call drop for incoming calls, some apps requiring more rams will crash when you tap on them to open them. I've experienced this, and posted screenshots on this forum, i just can't remember what thread was it to post a link here.
Theory is theory and doesn't completely match with the practice. You just have the impression that you know more than those Apple Genius guys, but in fact and except for jailbreak which they don't agree to deal with, they know pretty much more than you think.
I'm sorry. But I am not wrong. If your phone has problems because you have a bunch if apps in the switcher then there's a problem with your phone. Perhaps while you were in ios 4? (which would mean its the iOS, and not your phone)
Something is definitely wrong if your phone does not clear the apps automatically (and just because an app is in the switcher, doesn't mean it's open, or even paused in RAM at all, an app can be completely closed and still show in the switcher bar). I too have done drastic testing on iOS multitasking.
If your phone just keeps the apps paused always and does not clear the RAM by itself, then you need to restore and setup as new.
Either that, or you were just constantly switching apps and trying to hog up as much RAM as possible in a none practical way.
Fact is: iOS clears RAM by itself.....and if it doesn't.......then there is something wrong.
What iOS did you test this on?
iOS 4.3 through 4.3.2 had major multitasking bugs where the phone would often not automatically clear RAM when it's needed. And that was the cause of the 4.3 animation lag. It wasn't quitting processes when it needed the RAM. And it wasn't only with user applications, it was the default API that Apple uses to make the Mail, Phone, And iPod apps run in the background. The few apps that truly could run in the background.
If you found these ideas through testing on iOS 4.3.x......then there is a perfectly logical reason or that.
I don't know what I know because I'm some genius hacker. I know what I know because I test tweaks for select developers in the jailbreak community. They have informed me again and again. Had it not been for them.... I wouldn't know these things.
And I don't necessarily mean I know way more than Apple Geniuses....I'm sure some of them have learned more about iOS than Apple wants them too. But I personally have never spoken to a genius that stated atleast one thing I could have easily corrected with a perfectly logical explanation. That's not to say they are all like that.....just all the ones I have spoken with. One will tell you one thing and one will tell you the opposite.
They weren't wrong about everything. Just lacked a lot of information it seemed to me.