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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.

i have a 3GS running iOS4. works fine. you have to wipe and reinstall it from scratch. iPhones are just like Windows, you have to reroll it every time you update the OS. on OS 3 i had all kinds of problems going from OS 3 to 3.1 and later versions. almost every time i had to restore as new
 
I hope there's a fix soon. Mine becomes unusable at times. Surfing the internet freezes all the time. Apps crash, every time I open something, it takes forever to load. Even just waking the phone causes it to freeze.
 
my phone too has been acting slower.. so slow its almost unusable... i seriously doubt its the apps (i dont have any bootlegged ones anyway) as it was fine before hand.

i had started to chalk it up to being a 2yr old phone as every phone ive ever had seemed to start craping out around the 2 yr mark- just when your contract was coming up, but now hearing that so many others have same problem i wonder now...

as an added side issue- its also been dropping calls in areas it never had a problem with before.... dunno if thats related either
 
My iPhone 3G was very slow and laggy after the upgrade to iOS4 but a DFU restore made a world of difference.
 
Not 3G related, 3GS. My battery life increased with 4.0, yet decreased with 4.0.1 :mad: My GPS has been worthless since 4.0. I am hoping this is resolved by Sept? :apple:????


i have a 3GS running iOS4. works fine. you have to wipe and reinstall it from scratch. iPhones are just like Windows, you have to reroll it every time you update the OS. on OS 3 i had all kinds of problems going from OS 3 to 3.1 and later versions. almost every time i had to restore as new


I have always done this. Things just appear to go more smoothly.
 
My 3G was a bit sluggish with iOS4 but it was better with a clean "restore" rather than upgrade.
I bet the same people who moaned that iOS4 isn't available on the original iPhone and that the 3G hasn't got wallpapers or multitasking will be complaining about iOS4's performance on the 3G.
 
My opinion... it's not the iPhone4 that was rushed to market but it was iOS4 that was rushed.

I really believe that most of the issues with iPhone4 (and the slowness of the 3G phone) is from iOS4. I really think Apple rushed this part. So, hopefully, many of the issues with the 3G and iPhone4 will go away with the updated iOS4.1.

Interesting take on it. Makes more sense than bad hardware. They spend millions in money, time, and labor to make sure the hardware is perfect. But software is never as lucky. The good news is that software can be fixed relatively easily.
 
The video is exactly how my 3G behaves. I got the iPhone 4 hoping it'll work, but now I drop calls like crazy. Going to switch back to 3G but I hoped the sluggish os4 would be fixed quicker. What a mess.
 
This is EXACTLY how my 3G behaves running iOS4!!! I swear it was a cheap ploy to make me upgrade my phone to a 3GS, or iPhone 4. I can't keep using this thing. It's driving me nuts.

Exactly! Nearly all of my games crash as well... :eek:
 
Yep,, that's pretty much ios4 on my 3G. Same deal.. thanks apple for ****ing my phone up.
 
My 3g is having these issues, but i figured it was just because i dropped it to much. It is pretty bad, simple stuff like safari hang for minutes sometimes, or it just crashes. What you gonna do? it's over 2 years old and is out of warranty.
 
I'm glad that I skipped installing this on my little sister's 2nd gen iPod Touch.

Hardware speed wise, there is no difference between the iPhone 1 and iPhone 3g. Apple shouldn't have made iOS 4 for iPhone 3g.
 
I'm glad they are addressing this, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been getting more coverage.

IMO (only my opinion folks) the antennae issue was overblown and the 3G clunkiness didn't get enough attention - Almost all of the 3G users that I know that upgraded to iOS4 are impacted in some way and regret that they did. Even the WSJ mentioned that the slowness was the most common complaint.

There's not even Apple supported directions on how to downgrade (or the implications). Restore so far is the only path.


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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.

totally goes like my nick suggests, frozen I don't know how many times from any window but sms and camera app the worst, when the camera decides it wants to open that is

just opening the phone this morning it froze and had to be hard booted before I could do anything

conspiracy theorist right here
 
The video is hilarious! But only because it's so true. I'm glad they did it!

Only read to page 4, but here's my cause and a fix:
iPhone 3G runs out of memory in iOS4. Disabling Spotlight didn't help me, but Jailbraking does. Processes that are left running in the background that are not quitting when memory is low, can be manually quit using SBSettings. Makes it very snappy again. Until you open various apps again that is.

I'm not talking about multitasking. iOS has always left apps and processes munching RAM in the background. Besides, the springboard background image made the iPhone 3G stall a lot more than multitasking does.

Oh, and be sure NOT to restore from backup. That has ALWAYS been problematic. Always go fresh, with any operating system, be it a phone or a computer.
 
The video is exactly how my 3G behaves. I got the iPhone 4 hoping it'll work, but now I drop calls like crazy. Going to switch back to 3G but I hoped the sluggish os4 would be fixed quicker. What a mess.

My bet is that 99% of your dropped calls are accidental hang-ups from the proximity sensor errors... which should be fixed soon in the 4.1 update... at least I hope. :)
 
iOS 4 killed my 3G

ever since i drank the kool-aid and upgraded to this crap (for 3G) iOS, my phone is unusable. nothing works right, text messaging hang-ups make me want to throw my phone at steve jobs' head for including 3G in the iOS 4 platform. i wrote that shrewd bastard an email, but he doesn't care about us too poor to buy the new devices. nevertheless, i wish i would have clicked: cancel, when prompted to upgrade to 4.0. DAMN IT! I'M SUCH A FANBOY (bite fist). i hate myself for not waiting and ruining my phone. i looked into downgrading (thanks to the ever controlling apple), seems like mission ********* impossible! i'm not happy, apple is exceedingly becoming a crappy company. that's what happens when you let success get to your head. if this issue is not fixed in 4.1, i must find a way to jailbreak this damn thing. can anyone please answer what happens with my phone if i downgrade to the iOS 3.(last version), but just upgraded my itunes (by mistake, it got jumbled in with the osx update, DAMN IT!) do you have to downgrade itunes and the iphone to get the 3G to work properly again? anyone? thanks, fellow apple slaves...
 
longer term fix?

Does rebooting and turning off Spotlight on an iOS4/3G help long term (for more than a day)? Does it help with battery life as well?

And does it help the frame rate of games which slowed way down after iOS 4.0 was installed? I've got a couple games that slowed to a jerky crawl on the 3G.
 
I upgraded my iPod Touch 2nd gen and the UI is slower in places - if I hit settings it will take noticeably longer than it did before the upgrade. It's not totally ruined it for me but I'm not sure the minor features I got in return were worth it, or why having folders would make a difference... ironically my iPad screams by comparison and doesn't have folders and stuff yet, even though it will probably handle it easily :p

I wouldn't like to think what it would do to a slower iPhone 3G - I've not upgraded my dad's 3G yet because I thought Apple might have to 'look into' this.

I really think Apple should give older devices security updates without new features if performance is affected badly.
 
The "FAIL"s just continue to mount.
 

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