Hi all, just thought I'd post my 2 cents, after having gone 5 days with as-is iOS5 on an ATT iPhone 4s, before finally pulling the trigger and restoring + setting up as new, then syncing to an iTunes backup.
So my first few days, I was unhappy with battery life like many of you, but I found some small life-prolonging tricks, like disabling many of the location services features. The phone felt a lot faster than my 3Gs, so I didn't really want to mess with something that didn't feel totally broken.
However, the more I thought about it, the less that made sense. It's ridiculous to be crippling so many of the features that make the iPhone so useful. Could I live without the iPhone sending diagnostics info to Apple? Yes... but then maybe Apple would be less likely to see things like my occasional kernel panic, and therefore might be less likely to implement a fix in 5.1. And could I live without compass using location services to its advantage? Yes... but damnit, it's still useful.
So, with that in mind, tonight I bit the bullet and restored my phone, and set it up as new. I then synced it to my iTunes backup from a few hours ago.
Upon completion, I noticed a BIG performance difference.
Almost immediately, my 3G speeds jumped up a factor of 2 in my house.
Everything seems faster... even battery recharging.
My guess is - many of our pre-ordered iPhones came with an early/faulty build or loading of iOS5, and doing a restore+setup as new is somehow improving on the system.
I know some of you tried this, and haven't seen total fixes. Perhaps there are some faulty hardware sets out there, or stuck processes that are killing your battery life. But for me - and it seems like >75% of the other readers I've seen post on this - a restore and setup as new is resulting in big gains.
Anyway, would like to hear anyone elses results/thoughts.
Oh... and since the restore, all of my low-memory and kernel panic events that were showing up in diagnostic data reporting have disappeared, and have not yet occured again. Coincidence?
So my first few days, I was unhappy with battery life like many of you, but I found some small life-prolonging tricks, like disabling many of the location services features. The phone felt a lot faster than my 3Gs, so I didn't really want to mess with something that didn't feel totally broken.
However, the more I thought about it, the less that made sense. It's ridiculous to be crippling so many of the features that make the iPhone so useful. Could I live without the iPhone sending diagnostics info to Apple? Yes... but then maybe Apple would be less likely to see things like my occasional kernel panic, and therefore might be less likely to implement a fix in 5.1. And could I live without compass using location services to its advantage? Yes... but damnit, it's still useful.
So, with that in mind, tonight I bit the bullet and restored my phone, and set it up as new. I then synced it to my iTunes backup from a few hours ago.
Upon completion, I noticed a BIG performance difference.
Almost immediately, my 3G speeds jumped up a factor of 2 in my house.
Everything seems faster... even battery recharging.
My guess is - many of our pre-ordered iPhones came with an early/faulty build or loading of iOS5, and doing a restore+setup as new is somehow improving on the system.
I know some of you tried this, and haven't seen total fixes. Perhaps there are some faulty hardware sets out there, or stuck processes that are killing your battery life. But for me - and it seems like >75% of the other readers I've seen post on this - a restore and setup as new is resulting in big gains.
Anyway, would like to hear anyone elses results/thoughts.
Oh... and since the restore, all of my low-memory and kernel panic events that were showing up in diagnostic data reporting have disappeared, and have not yet occured again. Coincidence?
