Defragmenting

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ནཝཇངᎯངᎿཔᎦ༽༨རསཁྭ Feb 5, 2012

So I was defragmenting my grandmas computer the other day and thought to myself, will iPods/iPads/iPhones need defraging after using them for so long?
r3volv3r Feb 5, 2012

No, because of the type of memory (flash-based).
ནཝཇངᎯངᎿཔᎦ༽༨རསཁྭ Feb 5, 2012

r3volv3r wrote:
No, because of the type of memory (flash-based).

Ahh that's right I couldn't remember whether it was flash based or not. Is there any other explanation why my iPod is running slower than normal then? I like to keep around 1gig memory free and it's an 8 gig
keosan24 Feb 5, 2012

Its probably slow because of all the process"s running in the background
r3volv3r Feb 5, 2012

keosan24 wrote:
Its probably slow because of all the process"s running in the background

Co-sign.
keosan24 Feb 5, 2012

r3volv3r wrote:
keosan24 wrote:
Its probably slow because of all the process"s running in the background

Co-sign.
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👿Belial Feb 5, 2012

Processes tend not to have much effect on iPod. But iOS can show signs of wear. I would reccomend a restore or even DFU
ནཝཇངᎯངᎿཔᎦ༽༨རསཁྭ Feb 5, 2012

⌖🔥Belial🔥⌖ wrote:
Processes tend not to have much effect on iPod. But iOS can show signs of wear. I would reccomend a restore or even DFU

What's DFU stand for?
BryGuyH Feb 5, 2012

Fragmentation happens on any device but definition flash base devices (because of wear leveling technology) will always be as evenly fragmented as possible so the performance hit will always be present and fairly consistent. Fragmentation is really only something to worry about on FAT formatted hard drives under windows. NTFS and any *nix file system doesn't suffer from the fragmentation problem nearly a much.
👿Belial Feb 5, 2012

nadarrah wrote:
⌖🔥Belial🔥⌖ wrote:
Processes tend not to have much effect on iPod. But iOS can show signs of wear. I would reccomend a restore or even DFU

What's DFU stand for?
Device firmware upgrade
Ʈɧєℜєɖєєɱєℜ Feb 5, 2012

Also happens if your battery gets old... Had a itoich 1st gen that slowed down really bad. Then wouldn't stay on longer then a minutes when I went on wifi
ནཝཇངᎯངᎿཔᎦ༽༨རསཁྭ Feb 5, 2012

⌖🔥Belial🔥⌖ wrote:
nadarrah wrote:
⌖🔥Belial🔥⌖ wrote:
Processes tend not to have much effect on iPod. But iOS can show signs of wear. I would reccomend a restore or even DFU

What's DFU stand for?
Device firmware upgrade
Ohhh ok. I'll prolly restore it soon then or even downgrade it so I can jailbreak it
Add Nuckfuts Feb 5, 2012

Ғʟuƒƒ ϻA͜ՏϮeʀ wrote:
Also happens if your battery gets old... Had a itoich 1st gen that slowed down really bad. Then wouldn't stay on longer then a minutes when I went on wifi

Ohh no! I'm starting to feel the same on mine. What did ya do to fix it?