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Apple Looking Into Reports of Problems With iOS 4 on iPhone 3G

I can't believe some of the apologists in this thread. It's a major OS update. It should have been tested. And by tested I mean installed on at least one iPhone 3G. These aren't isolated cases. The OS runs terribly on the phone. I understand its old hardware, but the lag is horrendous to the point of unusable. I don't even understand how it can run so bad, Apple have disabled multitasking and wallpapers. It's a shocking drop in performance for a OS that looks almost exactly the same.
 
3GS too

Yeah, trying to get a call to answer, and sometimes even trying to unlock the phone has been an issue at times with my 3GS with iOS 4.0.1.

Figured is was just a fluke - now I see.

I'd get an iPhone 4 if it wasn't for that darn AT&T contract...
 
iOS 4.01

Actually, there is some noticable change in 4.01!

Personnaly, I was about to downgrade due to those issues... Now, its noot perfeect, but really better aka faster!
 
how did you get 4.01 on it?

I just got my 3G from a friend's "downgrade" so he could get a 4. The lag was driving me crazy but since it's my first iPhone I thought it was a "feature".
 
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My Dad temporarily has iOS 4 on his iPhone 3G, and he downgraded. Back to normal.

All iOS really has to offer on the iPhone 3G is folders, iAds, and the shiny dock ;)

By the way, while I was watching the video, I noticed this guy was very fustrated. Tap tap tap tap tap (load) click tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap :)
 
I don't know. That video reminds me of how my 3G performed on day one, whichever OS that was. Definitely looks worse, like all the freezing and slowdowns happen constantly instead of almost constantly. Tradeoff is a lot more features, I guess.

The 3G was a slooooow phone.
 
yzp said:
Actually, there is some noticable change in 4.01!

Personnaly, I was about to downgrade due to those issues... Now, its noot perfeect, but really better aka faster!
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That's a placebo, 4.0.1 is only a cosmetic change for the signal strength and exchange bug fix. Nothing else. That's why its a x.x.1 release
 
I noticed slide to unlock took longer to register, then pull up my passcode. Once in, simple things like Safari and Calendar take at least 10 seconds to become functional. Prior to the upgrade it was pretty instantaneous, probably no more than 2 seconds.

I wish I could downgrade, as folders isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that's all a 3G owner really gets. Can't wait till Oct for iPhone4.
 
LOL oh Apple...what do you normally say...it just works....what a joke.

Apple was once the hip, cool company...now they are simply "the man".
 
3g iOS4 issues

My wife took my 3g phone to replace her 2g one (as I upgraded to the iPhone4). She has been cursing me since day one about how slow the 3g was while running iOS4. It was horrendously slow, so much that she switched back to her 2g phone and will happily wait for the white version of the iphone4.

just my $0.02 worth...I love my new phone though!
 
I hate to say "I told you so," but to all the people who said last year that the 3GS really wasn't a meaningful upgrade from the 3G... I told you so.
 
Downgraded

Yeah it is really terrible. I finally got so mad that I threw my phone when I tapped on a phone number link to call it and it took 20 taps to do it. I wasted two weekends of my life downgrading my phone back to iOS 3 (only had an iOS 3 backup on a different Mac and the backup was a year old, thanks iTunes for deleting my iOS 3 backup on my regular syncing computer immediately after installation of iOS 4, then calendar wouldn't sync from iOS 4 bug, etc), I felt like I was in the depths of PC hell trying to get everything to work right again, TWO WEEKENDS LOST.

Anyway, went all the way back to 3.0.1 as I figured that the slowness really started in 3.1 (that's when I first started noticing keyboard lag, etc) and now I feel like I have a brand new iPhone. It's so fast! Maps is like zip-zoom-awesome! It's even better than iOS 4 because it doesn't do that stupid force reload the map everytime you go into the app, oh yeah, and the side-swipe scrolling is like butter :p
 
academyspatula said:
... The only thing the parody left out was the iCal. When I run the calendar, it shows that there are no events at all, but after 3 seconds, suddenly you can see and click on your events. ...
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I've seen this on ipod touch 2g, and I think it is likely a bug in iOS4 itself; it probably happens on iPhone 4 too. Like me, you probably have a lot (i.e. 200+) of calendar items. I've noticed that if you use the "list" mode rather than the "day" mode, all items are shown.

iCal on the Mac is also sluggish with a lot of items. Generally, iCal seems to be a rather sloppily-written program. It has a good user interface, though.

As for the slowness, turning off Spotlight is a pretty solid improvement.

BTW, dev tools no longer support 3.1.3 (why not? why couldn't Xcode support all versions back to 2.0 or so?), so downgrading is not an option for developers.
 
ctrobins said:
I guess there is no iOS 4-lite for the slower/older iPhones.
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Someone may have already talked about this, but I found that after upgrading to IOS 4 I had that slowdown and crashing. IOS 4.0.1 did not fix the problem.

This was all done from restore and backup.

I decided to do a re-instal but this time as a new phone, and the problems went away, been 5 days free of problems. I did the same thing to a second phone 3g and the problem also went way.

Not sure if those with problem will get the same result but its a try.

Here is what I did:
Put the phone into DFU (recovery) mode before doing this.
Then restore phone as you have done before, but when it ask you from backup or as a new phone, click on new phone and do it that way.

Here is how you can do it.
Step 1. Turn off your iPhone.

Step 2. Hold down the power and home button.

Step 3. When you see the Apple logo, release the power button but continue holding the home button down.

Step 4. Open iTunes and wait for it to tell you that its in restore mode.

Referenced from: http://limitededitioniphone.com/how-to-put-the-iphone-into-dfu-mode/

Hope this help.
 
Really?

I had the opposite effect on my 3G. My battery life extended. I do have some slowdowns in some applications. Mostly it works well for me. I wonder why I had a positive experience?
 
my wife and I both have the 3g, but not for long...

Sorry Apple we aren't upgrading to a flawed designed iphone 4 either...

what are we doing?

We are going to T-mobile!

Why?

Because I have an iPad wifi, and hardly use the internet on my iphone anymore AND I don't want another 2 yr contract with AT&T!

Why T-mobile?

I bought two Motorola E8's used off ebay for $70 for both, and we are going on a MONTH to MONTH plan! unlimited minutes for $79. Our iPhone bill was $191!!!

It's a phone period, all we need it to do is make calls, not surf the internet incredibly slowly, or crash, or anything else.

I'm sure I can find something else to do with the extra $100+ a month!

Yes, I'll keep my 3 other household Macs, yes I still love Apple, but until they come out with something better (or even Android does) for a reasonable amount of money monthly... who needs the headaches?
 
my wifes 3g sucks A!! with the new i0s4 installed, lag out the ying yang, blank screens and all sorts of crap, my 3gs is not much better! hangs at certain points and other blank screens as well!

blkank screen when trying to click on the messages icon, it just goes to a white screen and then slowly shows the textys and it is such a PITA to text or do anything on the 3g with the "new and improved" os!
 
The video is funny because it's true.

But the performance issues (and lack of white iPhone 4, well any iPhone 4) gave me incentive to jailbreak and I haven't regretted it yet.
 
Wi-Fi connection problems

also there is a problems with wi-fi

3.1.3 it worked perfect, on 4.01 wi-fi cannot turn on

i am on all apple ecosystem, iMac latest OS X and Air Port extreme, it is not at all connecting to wireless router :eek:

sorry if this wi-fi issue posted already ... but it is very irritating
 
AidenShaw said:
SO, we should give Apple a break for not adequately testing "a major OS release"?
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I think they did test it and knew darn well that it performed poorly but decided to release it for the 3G anyway. I can't see how they could not know that it would perform bad... all you would have to do is install it on a 3g!

It must have been a intentional choice and poor judgement - ie, release it now, and fix the problems later. I could understand the tradeoff's since they were more concerned about releasing the iP4 (sorry shareholders comes first). Just poor judgement, IMO.

BUT, i think the least they could have done was give a warning to 3G users that upgrading to iOS4 may cause performance problems. (it would at least give users the option to hold off until a minor release comes out)

P.
 
erockerboy said:
OK, I just read the WSJ article. Looks like this topic only refers to the 3G, not the 3GS. In my case, my 3GS has been suffering from substantial slowdowns since I upgraded to iOS 4. Can anyone else corroborate this behavior with the 3GS?

Thanks.
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My 3GS is noticeably slower, but nowhere near as bad as the 3G in the video. My old 3G was pretty slow before iOS4, so I'm guessing 3G owners who upgraded to iOS4 are hurting. I bet Apple is hoping all of you 3G owners will make the upgrade to iPhone4.
 
nemaslov said:
Once I upgraded to ios4 on my 3GS I can hardly make calls or send texts from inside my home (San Francisco). When I do make calls they frequently are dropped. I have lived in this house for many years and have always had perfect reception using my iPhone (all models) and all other cell phones.

I spoke with ATT had a case number re started and reset it with them and I still have problems. All this started right after I upgraded to ios4. Coincidence?
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Same here. Reception and dropped calls were never an issue before. They are now.
 
tatonka said:
My 3GS is doing mostly ok .. but I can see some lags in games that I haven't see before. Actually it was only after the 4.0.1 update that that BS started. 4.0 ran great performance wise. There was an annoying bug in the mail app that wouldn't let it load new mails when coming up from sleep. The only reason why I updated .. well and the fancy new bars of course.

T.
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Same. My 3GS performance and reception issues started after the 4.0.1 upgrade, not the upgrade to iOS 4.0.
 
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