{"id":795,"date":"2011-06-18T07:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T06:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2011\/ipad-communications-errors\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T06:46:52","slug":"ipad-communications-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2011\/ipad-communications-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Communications Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know whether any other iPad \/ iPhone users out there get the same problem, but I&#8217;d be interested to hear if you do.<\/p>\n<p>Quite often I go to use an app which needs to communicate over the Internet, and it gets &#8220;stuck&#8221;, clearly trying to communicate but with nothing happening. Depending on the app it may just sit there forever, or the operation may time out with an error. The iPad as a whole is still responsive, I can switch apps and use those which don&#8217;t need comms, but at that point all comms from all apps appear to be blocked. The only solution I have found is to switch the iPad off and on again.<\/p>\n<p>This is now sometimes happening several times a day. I thought Apple products were supposed to be so reliable they never needed a reboot? This is worse than a twenty year old Windows PC.<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to have got worse since I started using Twitter, and installed a couple of apps which wake up periodically to check for new activity. It therefore seems like there may be some common comms routine or resource which is essentially single-threaded and can get into a deadlocked state if there is more than one call on it.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else suffer this, or know how to fix it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know whether any other iPad \/ iPhone users out there get the same problem, but I&#8217;d be interested to hear if you do. Quite often I go to use an app which needs to communicate over the Internet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2011\/ipad-communications-errors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}