iPhone 5 died today...

[CZroe]

Originally Posted by Aikouka

I don't have that problem, but I still see the following issues:

1) Incredibly exorbitant data use while streaming. Streaming IGN's IPL5 for an hour and a half used up 3.8GB of data . I was looking up random streaming sizes, and NetFlix apparently only uses 1GB-3GB for the top quality for an entire movie. I was watching a an hour and five minute YouTube video yesterday, and I decided to see how big the 720p version of it was. I installed a YouTube downloader plug-in, and the file was 750MB. Something is really wrong.

Essentially, never stream anything on your phone that uses Apple's multimedia libraries.

This, combined with this.

[Aikouka]

Originally Posted by Ichinisan

I've been burned by the backup system, so I always start fresh.

Interesting. Wouldn't you lose your app save data if you do that? I play some games on my phone, and it'd be a real bummer to lose my save data. I assume iCloud sync'd games would be okay though.

Originally Posted by Ichinisan

The problem you described with the carrier and signal disappearing briefly is a common baseband crash / reboot. No LTE here. I see it pretty often. Maybe more than I should.

Oh, interesting. I've owned an iPhone 3GS and a 4S prior to this, and I've never seen it happen, so it was rather new to me! It seems strange that it would happen a lot on my phone, but I've never seen it happen on my LTE-equipped iPad 4.

Originally Posted by Ichinisan

I use a Belkin AirCast Auto in my car. It's a big button that answers calls and streams music from my phone to the car over Bluetooth A2DP. With my previous iPhone 5 and iPhone 4, it would take 8+ seconds to fully connect. The first beep would connect pretty quickly in headset/handsfree profile. The second beep would be around 8 seconds later (or more) and would connect to A2DP/AVRCP profile; allowing me to start streaming music. Now, it all connects at the same time and only takes 1 to 3 seconds.

Do you ever notice that Bluetooth randomly disconnects? It might be my car's factory head unit that's causing it, but mine will just randomly disconnect my phone and reconnect. It's done it for every iPhone that I've owned, but it's never when I've been on a call (it doesn't support music streaming).

Originally Posted by CZroe

This, combined with this.

Yeah, I heard about that after I got hit while listening to the Anandtech podcast, but I thought they fixed it in 6.0.1. I need to call Verizon up and see if they'll help me out here. It's ridiculous that I have to pay a $15 overage charge or $10 for two months (prorated on the first) just to cover the overage when I never used the data to begin with.

[Ichinisan]

Originally Posted by Aikouka

Interesting. Wouldn't you lose your app save data if you do that? I play some games on my phone, and it'd be a real bummer to lose my save data. I assume iCloud sync'd games would be okay though.

Now I only use cloud games on my phone (Words With Friends, not much else). Other games are easier to use on my iPad mini (Pitfall, Plants vs Zombies, etc).

Originally Posted by Aikouka

Oh, interesting. I've owned an iPhone 3GS and a 4S prior to this, and I've never seen it happen, so it was rather new to me! It seems strange that it would happen a lot on my phone, but I've never seen it happen on my LTE-equipped iPad 4.

My previous phone was iPhone 4, and it did it pretty often. Perhaps AT&T's network causes this in some areas?

Originally Posted by Aikouka

Do you ever notice that Bluetooth randomly disconnects? It might be my car's factory head unit that's causing it, but mine will just randomly disconnect my phone and reconnect. It's done it for every iPhone that I've owned, but it's never when I've been on a call (it doesn't support music streaming).

Mine is pretty reliable and stays connected. The receiver is just a couple feet from the phone. It's just really strange that multiple iPhone 4s and my previous iPhone 5 took much longer to connect and start playing music compared to my replacement iPhone 5.