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

MacKeeperFanMod said:
The iPhone 3G is two years old. Time to upgrade folks (or switch to android). There are plenty of bones to pick with Apple, but this is not one of them IMHO.

Just to put things into perspective, the venerable (and now retired) G1 is newer than the iPhone 3G.
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I'm all for people having a hobby and in your particular case if it's your Apple products then I don't have a problem with that. However, I don't worship at the alter of Mr. Jobs, but I also don't have a problem with either Apple as a company or any of there products. Mind, when I buy something I expect it to work and for your information 3G phones were being sold up until the launch of the iPhone 4, so that hardly makes them "two years old" - more like two months old. When I sync my iPhone and iTunes advises me to upgrade to the latest software/firmware, as the maker of the phone I take their advise. What I don't expect is to have a phone that works worse than when I bought it. That's hardly an upgrade in anybody's language. If my 3G phone is getting to the end of it's technological life, but it still does all that I want it to do then I wouldn't be unhappy to be told that the latest "upgrades" are not suitable. Now at this point I should say that I upgraded my 3G iPhone to iOS 4.0 and then iOS 4.0.1 and while it is slightly slower than before it certainly isn't a "brick". If I was given the choice to go back to 3.1.3 then I would take it because I wouldn't be sacrificing much at all, but would have something that worked the way that it did when it was new.

So, MacKeeperFanMod please remember that not everyone wants or needs to have the latest gadgets and that not everyone can afford to rush out and buy an iPhone 4. Particularly, if they have bought one of the last batch of iPhone 3G only a matter of a couple of months ago. All they want is a phone that works as well or better than the day that they bought it.
 
Apple's usual lack of beta testing!

My 3GS also freezes and connectivity is terrible.

The limited developer testing that Apple does makes backwards compatibility very hit and miss. They might get away with it on Mac's but people expect that their phone will make and receive calls.
 
This guy's not even exaggerating, I was skipping to the next track on my mic button while listening to music today and noticed that everything just stopped playing. When I looked at the screen, my phone was rebooting itself.:apple:
 
Gosh said:
My 3GS also freezes and connectivity is terrible.

The limited developer testing that Apple does makes backwards compatibility very hit and miss. They might get away with it on Mac's but people expect that their phone will make and receive calls.
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Hmm glad to know its not just me with the 3GS problems, I think i'll wait and see what 4.1 brings us then!
 
Sammio2 said:
Hmm glad to know its not just me with the 3GS problems, I think i'll wait and see what 4.1 brings us then!
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Here's what can be learned from the problem forums on Apple's own website.

1. Never buy the newest thing from Apple. Always buy the previous generation. It's far cheaper in the long run too!

2. Never buy or upgrade to a newer OS until the NEXT major version is out. Then you can safely upgrade to a stable version (only the last revision) of the PREVIOUS OS. If you are forced to upgrade the OS to use a certain software (as Apple often does), wait as long a possible to make any changes.

Sad, but that's just the way it is. Apple hasn't had PAID beta-testers for at least a full decade now.

Just millions of early-adopters who pay MORE for the privilege of beta-testing FREE for Apple.

I cannot, for the life of me, think of ANY company who has abused its consumer, prosumer, and pro bases more, nor continued farther on momentum, good will and willingness to overlook greed and malfeasance, and hype.

:apple:
 
Fair point, but can you think of any other company with a customer base willing to overlook greed and malfeasance, and hype?

Apple won't change if they don't have to!
 
Sammio2 said:
Fair point, but can you think of any other company with a customer base willing to overlook greed and malfeasance, and hype?

Apple won't change if they don't have to!
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WE'RE making sure they have to. There is QUITE a revolution brewing.

:apple:
 
If someone were top be using a 3G phone and to Jailbreak on iOS4, is there any chances that the phone will run like a dream afterwards?
Is there any program that could increase the speed ?

and if he were to Jailbreak and return to 3.1.3 is there an app which has the folder option which was presented in the 4.0.1 version, possibly something in
Cydia or Winterboard?
 
Turning off Spotlight Search does little to nothing to improve the 3G iOS 4 performance issues from what I have seen. It can still take seconds for my iPhone to react to button and virtual keyboard taps that had previously been nearly instantaneous. I cannot recommend this as a fix.

I'll also add that it's unclear what if anything is really being turned off when you do this anyhow. You basically get a list of applications and can check or uncheck them, but Apple provides no description of what checking/unchecking an app actually does. It may just configure the UI for search results and have nothing to do with background Spotlight indexing.
 
pmjoe said:
Turning off Spotlight Search does little to nothing to improve the 3G iOS 4 performance issues from what I have seen.
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Did you do a reboot of your 3G after turning off Spotlight Search?

Maybe someone can report on exactly what are the processes that spotlight leaves running on their 3G, using one of the process reporting apps (iStat?).
 
I'm going back to iOS3 as iOS4 is just unbearable. I'm tired of restarting my phone after it seems to lag so far behind. It's bad enough it takes over a minute to boot up. I can live without folders :)

Oh and Spotlight did seem to work at first but after disabling that, a few days later it's just terrible again. It still takes a few tries to load up apps. :(
 
My iPhone 3G and Mac G5 - suffering from iOS4 cancer!

Both of my older Mac products, the G5 and the iPhone 3G seem like their dying while performing (supposedly) very simple functions. My G5 used to faithfully serve my needs and now it takes a literal 15-20 seconds just to present a new webpage! My G3 is running as badly as the parody. If someone knows how to return to the previous software version without losing data please share. I personally feel that this is an attempt for Apple to force older equipment users to buy new... that's not cool. :mad:
 
leebroath said:
If someone were top be using a 3G phone and to Jailbreak on iOS4, is there any chances that the phone will run like a dream afterwards?
Is there any program that could increase the speed ?

and if he were to Jailbreak and return to 3.1.3 is there an app which has the folder option which was presented in the 4.0.1 version, possibly something in
Cydia or Winterboard?
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No.
Not that I've seen.

I've seen an app called Categories on Cydia.

I'm probably going to downgrade the phone today. The reason I jailbroke the phone was because I figured the performance couldn't get any worse. It hasn't but the terrible performance is chaffing. So I may be better able to answer your questions later this week. Not sure when I'm going to downgrade
 
What's the fix?

So is there a fix for this 3G battery issue yet? My device is all but bricked (it will go from 100% charged to completely drained just by being in my pocked, unused, for like 2 hours). It heats up like crazy too, even just in my pocket. I am currently abroad and NOT using the phone at all--no 3G, Data, Roaming, etc. etc. etc, all turned off. I only use wifi. I've done a complete erase/restore to no avail.

Can anyone help me here? There is not an Apple store within a million miles of my base.
 
...some features of iOS4 are pushing the 3G's hardware to the limit
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showing up a call from locked state so delayed that it only vibrates twice before the voicemail takes it, shouldn't be one of them.
Nor the 20 seconds of delay before I could start writing this post. Nor the 1-5 seconds delay for every keypress in MobileSafari. It just crashed while writing this post, because I got mail. It was the second time today that this happened.
I loved my iPhone, it was great. But now I get that frustrated while using it for it's main purposes - phoning and browsing -, it doesn't take much time in this state, and I'll throw this thing against the next wall, collect the SIM and leave it trashed on the street.
 
I discovered my fix. I'm not going back to 3.1. I'm just gonna trade it for an HTC HD2 :D

Byebye iPhone. Oh well if I ever want one again, all I have to do is restore from my backup :). I hope the HD2 will be just as nice!?

I'm just disgusted with the performance of iOS4 on the 3G. Tired of force restarting and the freezes/lags.
 
any improvement?

I'm afraid to try 4.0.2 after my downgrade. Can anyone confirm if there has been any improvement?

I'm not really expecting anything significant until 4.1, but I can hope.
 
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