iPhone 101: Reboot your iPhone for better gaming
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One of the biggest comments on the recent SimCity announcement for the iPhone, other than being able to locate the SimCity International (link goes to the U.K. iTunes store) version of the game, was complaints that the game was crashing for some people.
This is not a new issue for graphically intense games for the iPhone and one of the solutions for solving this is very easy: Before playing your new game, reboot the iPhone.
Here’s how to do it. Hold down the Home and the Sleep/Wake buttons until your screen goes black, as shown at right. After a few seconds, you should see a sliding bar for powering off the phone. Ignore it and keep pressing those buttons. After about 20 seconds or so, the screen will go completely black and the silver Apple logo appears. That means your phone is rebooting. Let it go through the rebooting process, then launch your game. You shouldn’t have any further problems with it. One word of warning: Rebooting the iPhone does drain your battery somewhat, so if you’re pretty low on power you may find yourself unable to use the phone until after you’re recharged it.
Why reboot your phone? The iPhone, like a regular computer, uses memory and system resources every time you launch a program. The typical iPhone user utilizes several applications at a time, often hopping back and forth between them. When a program that is heavy on system resources is launched, such as SimCity, if you haven’t rebooted in awhile to refresh your iPhone’s memory and resources, it could cause the program to crash.I saw this tip posted on the App Store when I was purchasing Scrabble at the end of November and followed the advice and didn’t have a single problem with Scrabble on my 1st generation iPhone. I repeated it with SimCity and, again, I’m not having any issues playing the game.
If that doesn’t solve your issues, check out this list of iPhone troubleshooting tips.
TUAWiPhone 101: Reboot your iPhone for better gaming originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST.
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