Crashing the iPhone with Chinese news sites...

henning
 August 28, 2008 at 08:24 AM posted in General Discussion

Yesterday I crashed the iPhone while trying to load sina.com.cn...now I am careful with such sites. Anybody had similar experiences and recommendations how to avoid such situations?

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henning
 November 22, 2008 at 04:24 PM

The 2.2-update healed it (for the most part).

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bazza
 October 18, 2008 at 12:20 AM

I was hoping this tv site would work on the iphone but the video won't seem to play. Good site anyway though.

BTW if you find that Safari is crashing a lot, rebooting your iphone should help.

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bazza
 October 15, 2008 at 06:36 PM

Try this on your iphone: http://m.cri.cn/cn/

It's a cute little mobile China news site.

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vikram
 October 03, 2008 at 07:33 PM

Thanks Bazza/Henning . Just downloaded :)

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henning
 October 03, 2008 at 06:32 PM

bazza: Thanks. Large collection of readings.

virkam: Appstore

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vikram
 October 03, 2008 at 05:22 PM

Jailbroken app or from the appstore? :D

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bazza
 October 02, 2008 at 09:22 PM

There is an app called SinaReader which is worth a look.

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henning
 September 05, 2008 at 06:22 AM

The trick is to interrupt the loading of the page as right when the first text shows up.

Thereby you can read the page and follow the links (the individual articles are harmless for the most part). Once in a while Safari crashes anyway, but it kind of works.

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ping888
 September 03, 2008 at 09:48 AM

I like it , but it is not cheap!

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adjusting
 August 28, 2008 at 08:47 AM

Interesting. I'll try to reproduce it.

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henning
 August 28, 2008 at 08:45 AM

It crashed entirely, no reaction whatsoever for 10 minutes (music got a hicup first and then stopped playing). Maybe the problem was that I also turned the phone while loading. After a reboot everything went back to normal.

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adjusting
 August 28, 2008 at 08:43 AM

I just tried it, and it crashed Safari, but not the phone itself. Did it crash everything for you? I've never seen anything other than 3rd party apps suceed in crashing the entire phone.