iPhone 3G S - YouTube over Wifi issue (Please help me verify this)

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iPhone 3G S - YouTube over Wifi issue (Please help me verify this)

Hello.

This is happening on my iPhone 3G S on WiFi. It does not happen to my iPhone 3G either on Wifi or 3G.

I need to see if others are having the same issue to see if it's a bug or if my phone is defective. On YouTube (WiFi only) my iPhone 3G S will only load a minute to a minute of half of video and it quits loading. What happens is the phone will play up until that point and then suddenly it stops playing and pauses. When you look at the controls for YouTube it shows that it has played all of the downloaded data.

I tested with my old iPhone 3G on the *very same* Wifi and it does not have this issue and both are running iPhone OS 3.0. I really need somebody else with an iPhone 3G S to verify this issue for me (or tell me that it doesn't happen to them).

Here is a video that I am having trouble with so you can test yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5yNQxhz2k4

Please test with your iPhone 3G S and post here and let me know.

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Posted on Jun 20, 2009 9:00 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 20, 2009 9:19 PM in response to MikeDVB

Just watched it with 3G S over WiFi. No issues. Learned that the 3G S is faster than Pre. 🙂

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Answer 2

Jun 20, 2009 9:39 PM in response to MikeDVB

Mike im having the EXACT same problem as you.

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tyjd

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Jun 21, 2009 8:04 AM in response to MikeDVB

I am having the same problem! Is there a fix?

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MikeDVB Author

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Jun 21, 2009 9:16 AM in response to MikeDVB

At least I know that it's not just me and my particular 3G S. Hopefully Apple will notice this and fix this - I've submitted feedback about it at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html - you guys might want to also.

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MikeDVB Author

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Jun 21, 2009 12:00 PM in response to MikeDVB

I believe this issue only affects those that upgraded from 2.2.1 or restored a 3G to a 3G S (if you upgraded iPhones).

I got mine working by going into settings->wifi->tapped my network->forget network

I then did a hard reset (Home+Power until it shuts the phone off) and started it back up.

At this point I reconnected to my network and YouTube over wifi and wifi in general are working much better. It still seems slower than the 3G on wifi for transfer speed but still very usable.

Edit: now my wifi connects for 3 seconds and drops for 3 and connects for 3 and drops for 3 😟

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GaGa4Mac

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Jun 22, 2009 3:18 PM in response to MikeDVB

I'm having the same problem. I also tested on my old 2G iphone, which also has the 3.0 software. It played for longer before going into pause mode, but nonetheless still had the problem. So, I believe it has to do with the 3.0 software. Agree that the video quality is much poorer in 3G or Edge.

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Jun 22, 2009 4:41 PM in response to MikeDVB

Same issues here. Also noticed it takes much longer for videos to start playing compared to my 3G. The 3GS will sit for quite a while before it starts to buffer while the 3G starts buffering almost instantly.

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Jun 22, 2009 8:53 PM in response to flashram76

Over WiFi, the video quality is better and load times are shorter on my 3G S. Over ATT's 3G wireless, still better than my 3G iPhone. Oh well, I guess, like many things here, most of these issues are extremely rare.

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GaGa4Mac

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Jun 23, 2009 4:59 PM in response to MikeDVB

I actually called tech. support. Admittedly, I now feel kind of stupid have done so, because it is really very simple. It takes a while for the video to download. Just like it you watch a movie trailer on your computer. If you try to play it before enough of it is downloaded it will pause until about 3/4 of the clip is downloaded and automatically start and play it through. In YouTube, I selected a 2 minute video. It took a few minutes to get to the 3/4 download point then started playing automatically and played through to the end without interruption. I agree that it should be faster, but hopefully it will be improved on in future updates.

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Jun 23, 2009 5:26 PM in response to GaGa4Mac

I called Tech support. They are keeping a watch out for any more of these problems. The movie DOES NOT download EVER in its entirety on wifi ( i have 50mb download with fios) and does on 3g

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MikeDVB Author

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Jun 23, 2009 6:12 PM in response to GaGa4Mac

lol, that's not the issue at all. It only downloads so much of the video (even if you never touch play or pause) and stops.

The way it works is it tests your connection speed and then buffers far enough out so that it can download the entire video while it plays without interrupting playback.

I have tried dozens of times over WiFi and it plays up to about a minute to a minute and a half and just stops downloading the video at all.

If what you were saying was the reason - it would pause and continue downloading but it doesn't. Once it hits the "dead spot" it stops and to get it playing again you have to exit the video and go back to it.

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GaGa4Mac

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Jun 23, 2009 6:55 PM in response to MikeDVB

Sorry, I misunderstood that it stopped downloading on yours.

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bingo58

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Jun 23, 2009 8:21 PM in response to MikeDVB

include me in on experiencing this problem.

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Answer 14

Jul 3, 2009 6:01 AM in response to bingo58

Same problem, for what it's worth.

2nd generation iPhone: 3G running 3.0, stops around 39 seconds when trying to play. Never downloads the rest or start's playing again. Same issue on 3G and WiFi.

Assume this will be addressed in the next update...

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Answer 15

Jul 3, 2009 4:47 PM in response to smorgasbord

Same problem here! When I try the the same video on my 1st gen iPhone no problem at all... Glad to know its not just me- This was driving me crazy! Do you think a restore would fix it?

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