Genius: "you have no memory because you have too many apps running" ?!?!?!?
hey all,
just a quick thing. I saw a genius today, because like many of you, i'm not only dealing with antenna issues but also have some really bad proximity sensor stuff. I mean, seriously, i've done three way calls, face timed everyone, end calls of 50-60 percent of my calls, searched maps, made new contacts, etc. all with my face! rrrgggg but what i was more puzzled about was what the genius told me was,
"you have no memory because there are too many apps running in the background" when i questioned and said, didn't steve say, "if you have to think about it, you've done it wrong" yet now i'm having issues with my phone, it is because of the multitasking? does this make any sense...it didn't to me. does he not know what he is talking about....or if he is right, there is nothing i can do about it right? he said there isn't a way to turn multi tasking off, just have manually quit programs.........any advice onto if he is correct...
john2049 wrote:
hey all,
just a quick thing. I saw a genius today, because like many of you, i'm not only dealing with antenna issues but also have some really bad proximity sensor stuff. I mean, seriously, i've done three way calls, face timed everyone, end calls of 50-60 percent of my calls, searched maps, made new contacts, etc. all with my face! rrrgggg but what i was more puzzled about was what the genius told me was,
"you have no memory because there are too many apps running in the background" when i questioned and said, didn't steve say, "if you have to think about it, you've done it wrong" yet now i'm having issues with my phone, it is because of the multitasking? does this make any sense...it didn't to me. does he not know what he is talking about....or if he is right, there is nothing i can do about it right? he said there isn't a way to turn multi tasking off, just have manually quit programs.........any advice onto if he is correct...
The genius is incorrect. The apps that are suspended in the background are told to release memory, and if there is a shortage of memory or they don't comply as required they will be terminated at will by the OS (freeing memory). This is all done behind the scenes and will not cause you any memory issues. And the upside is you can switch to them much faster.
Shorter version: memory not an issue with background tasks.
Similar Messages
-
I was told that my Mac has to work extra hard because there are too many apps and/or programs open in the background. How can one tell what is open?? It must be something which is not normally visible to the user??
HansThanks, I have looked at that several times but I can't detect any one item which would indicate overusage. The small chart (indicator bars) are much on the low side and the onse which show are basically green? Not sure what the person at the Genius Bar saw so I'm somewhat puzzled.
-
How you restore your security pass code if you have disabled your iPod, due to too many pass code attempts?
If You Are Locked Out Or Have Forgotten Your Passcode
iTunes 10 for Mac- Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
iOS- Understanding passcodes
If you have forgotten your Restrictions code, then follow the instructions
below but DO NOT restore any previous backup. If you do then you will
simply be restoring the old Restrictions code you have forgotten. This
same warning applies if you need to restore a clean system.
A Complete Guide to Restore or Recover Your iDevice (if You Forget Your Passcode)
If you need to restore your device or ff you cannot remember the passcode, then you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and re-sync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.
Try restoring the iOS device if backing up and erasing all content and settings doesn't resolve the issue. Using iTunes to restore iOS devices is part of standard isolation troubleshooting. Restoring your device will delete all data and content, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, and calendar information, and will restore all settings to their factory condition.
Before restoring your iOS device, Apple recommends that you either sync with iTunes to transfer any purchases you have made, or back up new data (data acquired after your last sync). If you have movie rentals on the device, see iTunes Store movie rental usage rights in the United States before restoring.
Follow these steps to restore your device:
1. Verify that you are using the latest version of iTunes before attempting to update.
2. Connect your device to your computer.
3. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when it appears in iTunes under Devices.
4. Select the Summary tab.
5. Select the Restore option.
6. When prompted to back up your settings before restoring, select the Back Up
option (see in the image below). If you have just backed up the device, it is not
necessary to create another.
7. Select the Restore option when iTunes prompts you (as long as you've backed up,
you should not have to worry about restoring your iOS device).
8. When the restore process has completed, the device restarts and displays the Apple
logo while starting up:
After a restore, the iOS device displays the "Connect to iTunes" screen. For updating
to iOS 5 or later, follow the steps in the iOS Setup Assistant. For earlier versions of
iOS, keep your device connected until the "Connect to iTunes" screen goes away or
you see "iPhone is activated."
9. The final step is to restore your device from a previous backup.
If you can not restore your device then you will need to go to recovery mode.
Placing your device into recovery mode:
Follow these steps to place your iOS device into recovery mode. If your iOS device is already in recovery mode, you can proceed immediately to step 6.
1. Disconnect the USB cable from the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but leave the other end
of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
2. Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the
red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to turn off.
If you cannot turn off the device using the slider, press and hold the Sleep/Wake
and Home buttons at the same time. When the device turns off, release the Sleep/Wake
and Home buttons.
3. While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device.
The device should turn on. Note: If you see the screen pictured below, let the device
charge for at least ten minutes to ensure that the battery has some charge, and then
start with step 2 again.
4. Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen.
When this screen appears you can release the Home button.
5. If necessary, open iTunes. You should see the following "recovery mode" alert:
6. Use iTunes to restore the device.
If you don't see the "Connect to iTunes" screen, try these steps again. If you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen but the device does not appear in iTunes, see this article and its related links.
Additional Information:
Note: When using recovery mode, you can only restore the device. All user content on the device will be erased, but if you had previously synced with iTunes on this computer, you can restore from a previous backup. See this article for more information. -
my iphone 3gs have a problom because i tryed to downloud apps from my computer with out apple id so some times it restart and the spring board always get crashed so now affter i made an apple id i tryed to update it to ios5 but the phone restarted in the middle of the update so restored the files from my computer but when i tryed to activeate the phone from wi fi it said activeate server is now unavilable and when i tryed to activeate it from itunes it told me there is no sim card why is that
My phone is an iPhone 3gs too, and last night actually it said the same thing, "No Sim Card" and my friend and I started panicking but I did what I call a "Forced Reboot" where you hold down the Home and Power buttons until you see the apple logo. DO NOT RELEASE UNTIL THEN otherwise you are just shutting it down. So, I did that and it worked again....
-
Help! How do I get help from Adobe!
Now I am told I do not have a message. Here is my message as posted above: What am I doing wrong? Every time I try to edit/change/label a photo I am told it cannot be done because I do not have enough memory. I have 500GB free.donna-jay-dee wrote:
I have a new ipod touch, 32GB, 4th gen. I tried to sync the 2,250 songs I have in itunes to the ipod, but it says I don't have enough space. This ipod is supposed to hold up to 7000 songs. I haven't put photos or anything else in this ipod. What am I missing?
What is the format of your songs? -
If you enter your password on the ipad too many times and your sim card locks, is there a way of recovery without replacing the sim card?
That doesn't lock the SIM card, it just locks you out of the device.
If you forgot (or don't know) your passcode, restore the device from backup on the last computer it was synced with when the passcode was turned on... this will remove the passcode. If you do not have access to the last computer it was synced with, you will have to force it into recovery mode & restore as a new device.
See this for more info... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212 -
Is there anyway I can save my photos before I restore my phone? I have locked myself out putting in too many passwords ! Thanks
It's too late for that now.
IF you had PhotoStream turned on, they may have already uploaded... though you will only find the last 30 days/1000 photos there after you restore. -
How do I reset the answers to my security questions. I lost mine and have been locked out due to too many failed attempts. I tried every thing I could find through apple support, nothing worked. I cant buy apps for my new phone with out fixing this
You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include clicking here and picking a method for your country, and filling out and submitting this form. There's also a link to do so in the Additional Information section of the article you asked this question from.
(96531) -
Hello everyone. I have my itunes account for some years, and i've purchased far too many apps and music. Now the company i work for, has to change my account in the iphone, in order to use the corporate mails and calendar. How can i keep my applications and music?
Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5621
Changing your Apple ID to your current, working email address will not create another Apple ID, it will only change it to your working email address. -
I have a problem with iPad2, apple logo appears but iPad won't boot up, then logo disappears & iPad dies - probably caused due to insufficient hard disk space (foolishly loaded up too many apps) - any help/advice greatly appreciated
What to Do When Your iPad Won't Turn On
http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Troubleshooting/ss/What-To-Do-When-Your-Ipad-Wo-No t-Turn-On.htm
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
iPad Frozen? How to Force Quit an App, Reset or Restart Your iPad
http://ipadacademy.com/2010/11/ipad-frozen-how-to-force-quit-an-app-reset-or-res tart-your-ipad
iPad: Basic troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3274
Update and restore alert messages on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
http://www.buybuyla.com/tech/view/012953a0d412000e.shtml
iOS: Resolving update and restore alert messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
iPad: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097
Cheers, Tom -
Photoshop CS5.1 Extended: Could not complete your request because there are too many Files Open
I saved a file last night and now this morning I get an error message stating: "Photoshop CS5.1 Extended: Could not complete your request because there are too many Files Open. Try closing some windows and try again.". I've rebooted the system and made sure Photoshop was the only program running and that there were no other files open prior to trying to open my file. I increased Photoshops ram usage, checked the OpenGL settings, 3D and VRAM settings, cleared my temp files and am at a loss for opening this file.
System Specs:
Win 7 64
6 core I7 processor
32gb Ram
3GB VRAM
600gb free space on 7200 rpm drive
File specs:
1 3D object replicated maybe 5 times (yes, I should have rasterized them, and will do that to 4 of them if I get the file open)
Maybe 8 textures
Not sure how many total layers.
Is there anyway to get Photoshop to reopen this file?No, more VRAM is useless. I had the same thought as you so I tried with a friend's computer with 3GB of VRAM for 8GB RAM (mine has 1GB VRAM for 16GB RAM). Still got the same error message. Sorry guys but our files are lost until Adobe fix the error in Photoshop code. I hope in the future they will find a way to either fix this error or give a clear limitation, it is really a shame such a dangerous problem exists and persists for more than 3 photoshop gen.
Still you may be able to have at least a flat image of your latest file by trying to open the file as smart object. I started my work over by doing that. Not a lot but better than nothing.
However for my new file I am trying something different : Each time I think a 3D file is final, I do not rasterize it but make it into a smart object and save the new smart object into a single separated .psd file. If any change is needed I can still edit all of my 3D objects by opening them separately. So far it works, the global file is lighter with few to no 3D objects inside but I will not say it is a 100% no-risk method yet.
Last advice I can give everyone : Before closing the file you are working on, save it as a copy (File / Save as... and check 'As copy' in the options below) then with your main file still open, try to open the copy. You may need a lot of memory if your file is heavy but still if the dreaded error message appears when you try to open the copy then remove or rasterize some 3D objects in your main one. Save again as copy and try to open the copy until you do not get the message anymore. -
Cannot create a calendar collection because there are too many already present in
My OS X Server (Yosemite) error log is throwing this error:
2014-10-22 00:03:07+0800 [-] [caldav-2] [-] [twistedcaldav.storebridge.CalendarCollectionResource#error] Cannot create a calendar collection because there are too many already present in <twistedcaldav.directory.calendar.DirectoryCalendarHomeResource object at 0x10743a750>
...when I attempt to add more than 50 lists in the Reminders app. I had a similar issue in Mavericks. Is this "50" number available to modify in a config file somewhere?
My plan is to manage GTD-type projects in my Reminders apps (on iOS and OS X), but this limit is keeping me from creating a list for EVERY project I have.Woohoo! I set the integer to "500" and I now have over 200 lists added, and syncing, to my Reminders app and related tools.
Here's exactly what I did after reading the response from Linc Davis:
Stop the Calendar service
Create /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/Config/caldav-user.plist
Edit contents of "caldav-user.plist", setting your desired integer value:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>MaxCollectionsPerHome</key>
<integer>500</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
4. Start the Calendar service
Enjoy your many more lists.
Note that a file created in a place other than ~/ may have permissioning issues. To get around this, I made a copy of /Library/Server/Calendar and Contacts/caldavd-system.plist, then renamed and edited that file with nano in terminal. -
My iphone has been disabled because of applying too many passcode so, how to enable that
my iphone3g has been disabled because of applying too many passcode and iwant it to unlock,so how to unlock it please hael me in this matter
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
-
Can you guys help me ?
That is not too many by a long shot.
To speed up your iPod try:
- Periodically double click the home button and close all the apps in the recently used dock. Then power off and then back on the iPod. This frees up memory.
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device. -
Over the last year I have 'purchased' many free art and photography apps looking for the perfect mix.
Every now and then I check my purchases and the ones I've had to remove are still in my list of purchases with a little cloud and a downward pointing arrow asking to be installed which is wonderful for me.
However, I also downloaded lots of free European maps and need to remove them to make room for my art trials. I don't want to lose them either.
Am I using this resource wisely or is there a better way. I have the 16GB iPad and lots of space is being taken up with art saved in photos pending refining or just photos to inspire.
PS That's my first question! The next one is about photos and albums but that better wait. Advice on the above is more pressing as is the space on my iPad
Hope you can advise meYes you can. Any purchases (including free apps) made from the iTunes or Apps Store are kept your history and you can download (install) again as many time you want. Once you remove any apps, you will then find it to have the cloud logo for installing again.
The only thing you must worried are any saved content within the app you will be deleting. As you can download the app again, it's local content (saved files) will be lost unless backed up someway.
Maybe you are looking for
-
I have found that the exclamation point is back next to several of my songs. I have not moved any files, or deleted any files. I need help so that I can figure this out and have my music back on my iPhone. I can play it on my Mac just fine, and it sa
-
How can I center text in a JTextArea?
I'm coding my own little font selection frame, and want to display the sample text in a JTextArea, and want to know how I can get the text centered in the field. Does anyone know how this can be done? Thanks.
-
I am using a mac and i can't read a pfd file
i am using a mac and i cant read i pdf file the system want me to agree first on adobe reader agreement but i dont know how
-
Trying to create a password for router and wireless adapte
I was reading through alot of posts and just couldnt find an answer that worked. I have a linksys wireless router, never had a pass set up on it, and lately I find someone is connecting to my internet and I would like to put a password on it. I found
-
Unknown network error code -3212
i recently messed with my nat type with my xbox and started messing with my network settings on my computer. i cannot connect to the itunes store due to the fact of an unknown network error (code -3212). I can connect to the internet via google chr