Lockscreen long delay

Hi all,
I have a problem with my iPhone 3G response of the lockscreen.
When i lock my phone and i dont use it for a few minutes and i want to unlock it again, i press my powerbutton and it takes about 10~sec for the lockscreen to come up.
If i press my powerbutton (or home button, doenst really matter) directly after i locked my phone it repsonse quite directly and fast as i should do.
Its very annoying that i have to wait so long for my lockscreen to come up when i want to unlock my phone. It only response that slow when i dont use my phone for about 2 or more minutes after i locked it. i have this problem since the first time i used it (11 July - iPhone 3G Launch Netherlands)
Can anyone tell me what i should do.
I have a contract with T-Mobile NL, but i wanted to try it here first maybe its a software problem or so. Please leave a reply or contact me on ***********@*****.**
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Best regards F.W.

Ok here iam again, sorry i didnt reply on your posts lately.
Ive just updated to firmware 2.2 and i did several restores but iam still having the same problem. it still needs up to 7-10 seconds to bring up the lockscreen
I even have more problems now.
Sometimes when I try to use my phone and I press the home button or the power button to bring up the lockscreen it suddenly shows a sort of screentest mode showing different colors repeatedly. I have to restart my phone to come out of that
And sometimes if I do not use iphone for a while and I try to use my iphone. it doenst respond at all, and it looks like it shut itself off and i need to boot up the phone by pressing the powerbutton.
exept for those problems it works perfectly iam not having problems with the phone at all
Its really anoying, its like it has huge problems with repsonding from a locked state
i still promised that movie of the problem, working on that.
(sorry for my bad english, i hope u can understand what iam trying to explain)
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Do you have many external drives or other peripherals connected to your computer? One thing I have noticed in the startup sequence is that the OS has some difficulty recognizing or mounting some of them (in particular, a Seagate FreeAgent USB drive). Not sure if this is a driver issue, but I believe I have the most current drivers for all my external drives.
- K725

[SOLVED]Long delay opening files if multiple selection in file chooser

neok wrote:
Hi,
When I try to open several files in an application, (example: Gimp), by multiple selection in the 'open' filechooser, there is a long delay (about 1 sec per file) before the Gimp starts opening image files. During this delay, the disk access LED flashes continuously and iotop indicates that its jbd2 accessing (writing) on the / partition on my SSD drive. This is despite the fact that the image files are on an external USB hard disk and the Gimp would have no reason to write anything on the / partition. Even if it did, the image files are small (50-100 kb) and such a long delay would be out of place.
The significant thing is that the delay occurs _before_ the Gimp starts opening files. It seems the delay is in the filechooser making a list of the files to be opened. Once the Gimp starts opening files, it finishes quickly.
This sort of thing happens with other apps that can open several files by multiple selection in a filechooser.
Any hints please? I am lost here :-(
The delay is caused by (apparently) GTK which writes to the ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel file, to record all the files that are opened in the multiple selction. Even so, this writing seems too slow, even when opening a large number of files (the ones that I open by multiple selection, by an app that I am working on, are about 10k each, so opening a few hundred should not take the delay I see, about 30 sec).
Anyhow, I patched the problem eventually by chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel to stop the writing. But I would prefer to disable the use of this file by configurtion rather than brute force, if there is such a choice.
Last edited by neok (2012-03-13 04:55:31)

neok wrote:
Hi,
When I try to open several files in an application, (example: Gimp), by multiple selection in the 'open' filechooser, there is a long delay (about 1 sec per file) before the Gimp starts opening image files. During this delay, the disk access LED flashes continuously and iotop indicates that its jbd2 accessing (writing) on the / partition on my SSD drive. This is despite the fact that the image files are on an external USB hard disk and the Gimp would have no reason to write anything on the / partition. Even if it did, the image files are small (50-100 kb) and such a long delay would be out of place.
The significant thing is that the delay occurs _before_ the Gimp starts opening files. It seems the delay is in the filechooser making a list of the files to be opened. Once the Gimp starts opening files, it finishes quickly.
This sort of thing happens with other apps that can open several files by multiple selection in a filechooser.
Any hints please? I am lost here :-(
I re-installed and reconfigured Arch so that I now have a fresh, uptodate system. In the process, I found that this problem occurs when I run the Gimp as a normal user. If I run it under sudo, all is well. I am strggling to find out why, but no results so far (have checked file permissions where I thought there may be a problem, but no joy).
Any hints much appreciated.

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