Apple users experiences the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with the new iPhone 5S
It’s been three weeks since Apple released their new iPhone 5S, which came in colors such as, Space Grey, Silver and Gold. It has a new A7 chip, dual-flash Camera and a finger-print scanner for security purposes. During the release of the iPhone 5S, the inventory stock was very limited, therefore getting your hands on one of them was quiet a challenge. Even I had to wake up extra early and go wait on the Apple Store line for more than 3 hours at Grand Central Terminal. But surely the experience was great, the employees of Apple served the customers FREE cupcakes! and water bottles as we waited. Also we got a loud round of applause from all of Apple’s employees as we entered the store. Making it one awesome experience.
Unfortunately, the cool new phone and experience did not do justice for many iPhone 5s buyers. Where now there seems to be multiple bugs and serious issues that are not being fixed with Apple’s iOS software updates. One major issue many users have been facing was the “Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)”, where the iPhone 5S would stumble upon a full blue screen during the middle of its use and just automatically reboot itself. The blue screen of death (BSOD) is a common situation for old Windows PC’s, where the Hard Drive crashes and in some cases its just about time to say ‘Good bye’ to your PC. So its best to hope that your iPhone 5S does not turn out to be in that type of situation.
Currently sources such as PC Magazine are saying that the causes of this Blue Screen are mainly occurring from the usage of Apple’s iWork apps such as Pages, Numbers and Keynote. I actually did not believe this at first, but I just took a shot on using these apps for about 5 minutes and decided to multi-task a little and then came back to Apple Pages on my iPhone 5S, and “BAM!” I received a Blue Screen!! But it quickly rebooted itself and is now back to its normal self, just as PC Magazine’s, Chloe Alabnesius said it would!
So I decided to poke around the settings of the iPhone 5S and found myself disabling the iCloud sync settings for the iWork apps. I performed the entire process of using these apps intensively for 10 minutes this time and now the iPhone 5S didn’t receive the blue screen!!
But I honestly think this is ridiculous, iPhone 5S is supposed to be one of the top notch devices out in the technology market at this point, but this flaw on the phone is now on the way to degrade its value. I really hope Apple releases an iOS software update real soon, that will remove these errors and let the phone blossom the way it was meant to!
Apple’s iPhone’s tend to always have some sort of error or issue during its first new batch of iPhones, but I really hope they do not let this be the first of many permanent issues to come for their iPhone line.
Watch the video for a preview of the BSOD on iPhone 5S:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNw457joq5I
Click following links for more in depth information:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425512,00.asp