Comments on: iPhone O2 – how to fix the image compression

By: squashboy

squashboy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:08:44 +0000

great tip – however this breaks tethering.

Does anyone know a way to disable image compression and keep tethering working.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:22:38 +0000

reply to james’ post. the reason why you get the image compression after you’ve reconnected to wifi is that safari (and every other browser) has cached the images and loads them out of cache rather than re-downloading them.

Usually hitting the reload button will completely download all images anew. Worst case scenario you need to clear you cache and then reload.

dull, i know.

By: James Stevenson

James Stevenson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:17:30 +0000

I have the same image quality issue when browsing wile connected to O2 Mobile Broadband.

But EVEN WORSE, when the O2 Mobile Broadband is disconnected and I’m back on WiFi connection the image quality is still not back to normal in Safari (it’s fine in Fireforx).

By: BigglesZX

BigglesZX — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:31:45 +0000

Sorry to comment on an ancient post (thanks for the info btw), but do you know if there’s a similar trick to disable image compression on O2′s Mobile Broadband PAYG service? I do a lot of work on the road and it’s really annoying at times.

Thanks!

By: JW

JW — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:04:05 +0000

Doesn’t work on P+G for 02 in the UK…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:42:51 +0000

Hi Ed,

Please be aware its not just image compression you will be disabling if you do this. It will disable all optimization which can slow down all Internet traffic, try and run some tests and see for yourself.

Kevin

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:16:37 +0000

Good find, thanks!