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

Finally.

I jumped at the opportunity to have fancy iOS4 on my 3G. Mistake. My phone is wayyyyyy worse than that video. It really is unusable. It corrupted a few apps (won't open at all) and most other apps crash after a few seconds. Facebook, SMS, and Unblock work like champs and that's about it.

But yay for my iPhone 4 arriving tomorrow!
 
So predictable

I have the exact same issue.
Mine-8giphone3- is way slower than the video by a factor of at least four.

It is a nice way of generating new revenue for apple.
Not that they do it on purpose, it's a convenient side effect of developing newer faster products.

WHen I called the tech guy (my iphone3 is under apple care)
the guy predictably told me I could buy a new iphone4.

Computers are the same.

You have to get a new one if you like response times to be reasonable.

Maybe they'll support the downgrade.
nothing else could be really a just response.
 
That is awesome. Exactly how my phone functions now. But I love the folders too much to downgrade.

Lets hope the 4.1 fix comes soon.
 
3G iPhone slowdown

I've been having very similar problems with iOS4 on my iPhone 3G. And yes, disabling Spotlight significantly improves responsiveness. The System Preferences settings for disabling Spotlight are in a somewhat odd place: System Preferences -> General -> Home Button -> Spotlight Search, then just untick all the searchable items.
 
Citizen Dildo said:
LOL - what total fanboy BS. I assume you're discounting the inherent design flaw included with every single one of them?

Given the release of all the new products the other day, this has continued to be an appalling month for Apple.
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Get a droid and quit complaining, let's see how quickly you come back to the iPhone like I did.
 
Well since I got iOS 4.0, I simply can't use Push Notifications on my iPod Touch since it drains ALL the battery over a period of 8 hours. It's no big deal because Push Notifications are useless anyway, but it's a bug nonetheless.
 
gramtrax said:
how did you get 4.01 on it?
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Connect to iTunes and click "Update".

Perhaps it helps as much as a current firmware reinstall would. Which shouldn't be that much.

But I'm pretty sure the main cause for the lagginess is the Restore from Backup. Atleast when you Restore in DFU mode, you can choose it to be set up as a "new phone".

Perhaps that's why they didn't catch it in the lab. I don't think they upgraded a phone that had been used normally for two years.

ferrous said:
What sux is now I can't use iPhone 3G or downgrade unless I jailbrake it.
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That doesn't seem like a hard decision to make, now does it?
 
Mine almost seems unusable sometimes. There's usually is some delay while typing a message and it even seems that safari becomes unresponsive at times. Apps seems to take a while to launch and it takes 30+ seconds for the camera shutter to open when using the camera.

My battery life seems to be OK and I don't seem to be getting any heat issues though. Maybe I should just downgrade back to 3.1.2 or something.... :)


**edit**
Thanks ahoeflak for the tip on disabling spotlight.
 
iPhone 3G & iOS4

Thought I would add my experience with this, just in case it helps anyone who has been suffering.

I upgraded to iOS 4.0 on day of release, and noticed slow down on the handset as everyone else had, opening Messages took an absolute, same with system preferences. Once the 4.01 update was released I also put that on straight away thinking what's the worst that could happen, its not going to make it any less usable. This improved performance slightly.

What did make my iPhone much more usable was rather than just powering off using the power button and the screen slide; I actually held the Home and Power Button, until the screen displayed the Apple logo for powering up, and still continued to held at this point, then the device turned off. Once I powered it back up, it was a lot more responsive to the point that I was still debating keeping the handset rather than replacing with a 3GS,
I hope this helps others, and if anyone needs any more info then drop me a line.
Thanks
D.
 
duncanbishop said:
Thought I would add my experience with this, just in case it helps anyone who has been suffering.

I upgraded to iOS 4.0 on day of release, and noticed slow down on the handset as everyone else had, opening Messages took an absolute, same with system preferences. Once the 4.01 update was released I also put that on straight away thinking what's the worst that could happen, its not going to make it any less usable. This improved performance slightly.

What did make my iPhone much more usable was rather than just powering off using the power button and the screen slide; I actually held the Home and Power Button, until the screen displayed the Apple logo for powering up, and still continued to held at this point, then the device turned off. Once I powered it back up, it was a lot more responsive to the point that I was still debating keeping the handset rather than replacing with a 3GS,
I hope this helps others, and if anyone needs any more info then drop me a line.
Thanks
D.
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I've been doing hard reboots too after the iPhone hangs itself(lol). Just tried disabling the spotlight prefs and that seems to have helped quite a bit! Also just watched the parody video and no wonder it's slow, the dude had like 15 pages//tabs open in safari :p That sucks up a lot of memory ;)
 
tundrabuggy said:
Get a droid and quit complaining, let's see how quickly you come back to the iPhone like I did.
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Hmmm interesting point of view, I intended to replace my iPhone with an Android based handset, so took the plunge (a mistake) and bought a HTC Desire (Droid 2.1) apart from the handset failed after two weeks, and the product lacked the finesse of an iPhone it was OK, but after a failure that quickly (and what appears to be an underlying Droid OS issue which I'll come onto shortly I decided rather than a replacement HTC I'd opt to replace it with the Sony X10 (another mistake) This was again OK but had problems with app crashes (Despite what you say about Apple and vetting of the App Store, I've had more App crashes in 5 weeks of Droid ownership, than since the launch of the App stores) That handset lasted 3 weeks, before finding itself on eBay !

However during those 5 weeks I found an flaw that seems to be common across all revisions of the Android OS, if streaming Bluetooth audio to car stereo or bluetooth headset and wireless is enabled, the wireless upsets the stream when polling for wireless networks, which causes a stutter in your music, and then the pitch of the audio stream changes to go back in sync. Seems to be fairly widespread problems, was in place on both HTC who blamed my bluetooth devices (which all work perfectly with an iPhone, and a Nokia phone).

Seems to be that the "Droid" operating system is far inferior to iPhone 2.0 and why do I say this ? Whislt the features of iPhone 2 may have been a little more limited than what the current offering provides, at least they worked ! Android has issues that affect EVERYONE running their OS, whereas issues with iPhone OS issues, are more isolated, and the operating system is available on the day that Apple make it available. With the Droid OS once a new build is available each vendor (Motorola, Samsung, Sony, HTC etc) then perform there own customisation and testing of the operating system before they decide when to release the device; Android 2.2. being the current release, however Some of the HTC handset and certainly the Sony X10 handset are still running 1.6 which is a bit old hat.

I'm now back to an iPhone albeit a 3GS rather than 3G, and its probably the best mobile phone purchase decision I've made since moving to the iPhone
:)
 
OrangeSVTguy said:
I've been doing hard reboots too after the iPhone hangs itself(lol). Just tried disabling the spotlight prefs and that seems to have helped quite a bit! Also just watched the parody video and no wonder it's slow, the dude had like 15 pages//tabs open in safari :p That sucks up a lot of memory ;)
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Also worth trying clearing out your internet cache, and text messages, also reducing the number of emails stored on your phone. Although no one thing will turn the performance round, I'm sure it will all help
 
Expectations and unparalleled support;

Having recently got iPhone for the first time, in the form of the iPhone 4, having had a good look at my wife's HTC Magic, I would like to offer this comparison;

the HTC Magic runs pre version 2 Android; so far the service provider has offered no upgrade... the old Android was good enough for me as a proof of concept for touch smart-phones, but is is under-wellming. zoom is basic, no tethering etc etc...

Android handsets offer so compatibility with new OS versions, the hardware standard is open....

These video's are a bit nerdish and quite franking in a new stream of technology hardly surprising that this occurs at least there is some attempt at hardware compatibility.

upgrade to iPhone 4, with the a4 processor it runs sweet...
 
My friend gave me his iPhone 3G for $30. Before using it, I updgraded to iOS 4. I just assumed that the slow speed was how the iPhone 3G always was! When watching this YouTube video, I was like, 'So? That's how the phone is. Deal with it.' Now I realise the phone is NOT supposed to be that slow...and it's not supposed to crash shortly after opening an app (which it does for me quite often). I don't really want to downgrade to iOS 3 as the folders alone are enough to make iOS4 worth the speed decrease, and the heat and the battery life... Oh yes, and I've missed calls due to the UI's unresponsiveness. I also have to push the 'call' button on Skype about four times for it to register only to find out that it HAD registered and by the time the screen catches up with me, I've inadvertantly put the call on hold or ended it altogether. Now I just push once and wait...and wait.
 
Can you restore 3G iPhone to OS 3?

My 3G became almost unusable when I installed OS 4.0. The folks at the Apple store said they expected the first update (4.0.1?) to fix problem; it didn't. Is there any way to restore the previous operating system?
 
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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Yeah had several instances of my 3GS slowing down unacceptably like in that video... almost always when/after using apps using the GPS receiver. The camera app seems to take forever to load up now aswell.
 
The ...

... only way to speed up iOS4 - but it does work, though - is:

1. perform a new iPhone installation of iOS4, do NOT use any 3.1.3 based iPhone backup

2. Jailbreak the device (you need redsn0w 0.9.5 beta and iOS4 IPSW file), disable all iOS4 features

3. run Cydia and install the following apps:
- "Feature" (let you choose iOS4 features like wallpapers, multitasking and enable/disable them via a simple respring)
- "Backgrounder" (this allows you to toogle the multitasking preferences)

4. Go into "System Preferences"/"Winterboard"/"Themes" and choose Multitasking, DON´T select background wallpapers, it is a resource hog itself, respring the iPhone

5. This is the main part: run Backgrounder and in genereal preferences set the following:

- Backgrounding method to "Auto Detect"
- Enable at launch "Off"
- Stay enabled "On"
- Indicate Status via Badge "On"
- ... via Status Bar Icon "On"
- Fall back to native "Off"
- Minimize on toogle "Off"

Respring the iPhone

Those settings brought my 3G back to life and have true multitasking, too. It now performs on par with 3.1.3. The reason for this is that only you decide which app runs in the background and which does not. The iOS4 multitasking bar turns into a "Most recent" only, which is what it really is useful for. On a fresh restarted/respringed iPhone I have around 39 to 43MB RAM available.

As the 3G does only have around 112MB RAM available for apps, you aren´t able to have many apps in the background anyway, mostly just one which you use heavily or listen to (as audio IS the most wanted background feature). It depends, with heavy apps you mostly can have two in the background, with light ones on RAM, several are possible - I had up to 8, but then it can get slow to the grind in no second.

I do believe that most issues with slow performance are based on 3.1.3. based backup installations. There is something wrong with it.
 
I don't expect my 3G to get faster with software updates, but I certainly don't expect it to get SLOWER!
I remember that on 2.0 it was really quite quick and responsive, now on 4.01 it is nearly as slow as the video (though not quite).
Apple haven't really added many resource intensive features since 3.0+ (no multitasking, wallpapers) yet the phone is clearly slower. And what's worse is you can't downgrade properly without jailbreaking!

And for everyone who is saying "what do you expect, it's an old phone, blah blah", it's not like 3G owners had a choice when upgrading. iTunes almost forces you to upgrade as it pops up with a message asking you to do so.

Turning off spotlight didn't seem to do a huge amount for me, though I haven't tried a hard reset yet.
 
That's a great video which really sums up the frustration I've felt with my iPhone 3G since the upgrade to iOS 4. As others have found, my 3G is actually even slower than the one in the video. I've also had dreadful battery life. Not only that but it corrupted all my photos and all my music so I had to sync all those again from scratch. Also, apps crash a lot more frequently.

And all that just so I could group apps into folders. What a joke.

I've tried the suggested tricks, i.e. turning off all Spotlight indexing (I rarely search for stuff on my iPhone anyway) and performing a cold reset. It's definitely running better now, but I don't know how long that will be the case. I sincerely hope Apple sort this out soon. Between this and the iPhone 4 antenna problem, I've been seriously looking at Android phones as alternatives.
 
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