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MikeDVB Author

Level 1

15 points

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.

Dell XPS M1530, Windows Vista

Posted on Jun 20, 2009 9:00 PM

48 replies

Jul 3, 2009 5:04 PM in response to MikeDVB

I just ran that video on my 3GS without any glitches. It downloaded the entire file without any pauses on my home WiFi network.

Jul 3, 2009 5:07 PM in response to MikeDVB

I just ran that video on my 3GS without any glitches. It downloaded the entire file without any pauses on my home WiFi network.

LanceFu

Level 1

0 points

Jul 4, 2009 12:55 AM in response to MikeDVB

My iPhone has the same problem on wifi. When playing videos or movie trailers, it will stop loading at some point, never been able to finish the whole thing. The issue only happened on wifi, but not when on 3G though. I do notice that if you're using a wireless router that support 802.11 N and set performance to B/G/N (Auto), then you're likely to experience this problem on your iPhone. However, changing it to run only B/G will help a lot. OS 3.0 seems to have some incompatibility issue with the 802.11 N router.

Jul 12, 2009 10:50 AM in response to MikeDVB

Haha. The video the OP told us to test failed for my iPhone 3GS.

It completely stopped loading at 4:52. No more white progress bar filling up. Dead.

I use a Linksys WRT54G router with a freakin' 10Mb connection. Shouldn't have any problem with speed. It's the YouTube app, the iPhone's internal networking or my router itself.

Dialdn

Level 1

0 points

Jul 23, 2009 5:17 AM in response to MikeDVB

I have this problem as well. Brand new iPhone 3GS. I have 2 wireless networks at home (both connected to a 20 Meg asynchronous low latency connection). I had the indicated problem last night when connecting to a network hosted by an Apple Time Machine running n (b/g compatible) but when I switched over to the Linksys (dd-wrt) I had no problems.

However, works fine this AM but I am connecting to the Time Machine network via an Apple Extreme extender. Wonder if the problem lies with the Time Machine and the kind of network being joined?

xiaogwu

Level 1

8 points

Jul 27, 2009 5:12 PM in response to MikeDVB

+1, I'm also having the same issue with wi-fi. (Seems to work okay with 3G.) Video just stops after a while and doesn't seem to continue buffering.

I have a Time Machine, iPhone 3GS.

Message was edited by: xiaogwu

Jul 27, 2009 6:56 PM in response to smorgasbord

same here, doesn't work for my 3GS when connected to netgear DG834PN, but on Linksys WRT160NV2 in the office works flawlessly. And I have checked my router and it works with other computer, so it is the 3GS that have issue.

OSilver

Level 1

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Jul 30, 2009 10:09 AM in response to MikeDVB

Same problem for me.
Have both a linksys 54GWrt and an Airport Extreme
Youtube videos wont play except for a few opening minutes on either wifi network

Iphone 3gs

daty

Level 1

0 points

Jul 30, 2009 8:45 PM in response to MikeDVB

My phone has also problems with youtube. If I use the network or WiFi, it still does the same as mike. It will freeze like one minute into the video. One other thing that I noticed is that the video quality is of poor quality compared to my 3G phone. I understand that is a faster processor, but what is happening? Have any of you have this sort of problems or anyone that you know?

Jul 30, 2009 8:57 PM in response to MikeDVB

I have a 3GS and experience the same issue but I get about 2 min before it stops. I haven't tried over 3G bur definitely an issue over wifi.

Jul 31, 2009 12:33 AM in response to MikeDVB

Unfortunately this problem has existed FOREVER on all versions of the iphone and ipod touch, I've experienced it on a 1st gen ipod touch right back as far as OS 1.1, iphone 3G and although it seems a bit better on the 3GS it still happens on that as well.

It seems to be a bug in the Youtube app, and there is a workaround floating around the net which involves switching your wifi router to 802.11b mode only. This is the only thing that has ever allowed it to stream smoothly for me. I was very dissapointed when 3.0 didn't fix this problem for me on either the ipod touch or iphone 3G.

It's hard to believe that Apple could let a bug this serious remain in one of it's key iPhone apps for such a long period of time...

Regards,
Simon