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iOS 7 on iPhone 4
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Best beta so far. It's really fast and stable on iphone 4 updated OTA.
Remember: first 10/20 minutes after the update the phone appears sluggish and hot but it's only because the os is indexing some data in background. You can see the camera roll in 'year view' rebuilding all the thumbnails and music in landscape mode, for example.
Overall, in my experience Beta 5 is now similar to ios 6 in term of responsivenes and usability. Still missing some effects like blur, parallax etc, but as long as the phone is fast it's ok.
EDIT: still miss also the wallpapers (none selectable), navigate through settings is blazing fast, no sound when unlock phone, music app is not so optimized yet
Remember: first 10/20 minutes after the update the phone appears sluggish and hot but it's only because the os is indexing some data in background. You can see the camera roll in 'year view' rebuilding all the thumbnails and music in landscape mode, for example.
Overall, in my experience Beta 5 is now similar to ios 6 in term of responsivenes and usability. Still missing some effects like blur, parallax etc, but as long as the phone is fast it's ok.
EDIT: still miss also the wallpapers (none selectable), navigate through settings is blazing fast, no sound when unlock phone, music app is not so optimized yet
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It is pretty much stable. Passcode lock is a bit more smooth. The dialer still lags a bit. Still crazy grey color on CC. Far from 4s or 5 or even Ipad 2 performance , but stable and usable.
One bug I noticed: sometimes when you unlock the phone it freezes and icons overlap the dots as on the screenshot. Apps still launch but you can't swipe screens.
One bug I noticed: sometimes when you unlock the phone it freezes and icons overlap the dots as on the screenshot. Apps still launch but you can't swipe screens.
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In your screenshot the icons all seem to be placed a fraction lower than they should, causing the titles of the lowest row to touch the jump board (or whatever that's called).
On a side note: i can't wait to get iOS7 on my iPhone4!
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When that happens we can't swipe and need a reboot to fix. Happens to me this morning
My battery life is terrible too. Was great on beta 4, as good or better than iOS 6. 100% at 8am, now it is 2pm and I barely use it, showing 33%.
Will cycle it, if still bad will do a fresh install.
Will cycle it, if still bad will do a fresh install.
To unfreeze the screen
To unfreeze the screen
You need to double click the home button (entering the multi tasking)
And exit.
Good luck
To unfreeze the screen
You need to double click the home button (entering the multi tasking)
And exit.
Good luck
My battery was terrible too with B3, I would say unusable, but since B4 it's very good. The only thing I've done is a clean backup, just the essential, like contacts, sms, and some important apps.
Here is a screen with b5:
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I haven't had any problems with Beta 5 on the iPhone 4 so far, that I can recall. Maybe a little sluggish compared to iOS 6, but perfectly usable.
iOS 7 on iPhone 4
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aero/id635650509?mt=8
Funny how effects from iOS7 weather app can run smoothly on iPhone4.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aero/id635650509?mt=8
Funny how effects from iOS7 weather app can run smoothly on iPhone4.
No live/animated lockscreen
No 3D background on homescreen
No transparency
No weather effects
No nothing
Slow as hell, 3fps animations, scrolling etc
What did they do to iOS.
If I wanted this I'd get android. Getting back to beautiful iOS6.
They did nothing to iOS 7 as those features work on an iPhone. Be thankful a 3 year old phone gets the latest release. You could have a 3 year old phone running Android 2.1 or something with zero prospects of an update.
I think the point is that the iP4 is more than capable of having most of those things. It's Apple's suckass way of forcing users to upgrade their device when there is no need for it. Nothing the iPhone 5 has makes me want to update, except *maybe* the camera. I don't need airdrop, Siri, high quality audio or any of that.
But they're going to cut out basic UI elements? LOL
But they're going to cut out basic UI elements? LOL
I see numerous people complaining that iOS 7 doesn't work well on the iPhone 4 even WITH those items disabled. Enabling them certainly couldn't help.
Either they aren't installing their betas correctly, or they've gotten unlucky. Beta 5 is smoother than iOS 6 for me. The *only* limitation the ip4 has, which is to be expected, is the opening of intensive applications. I have Messages with thousands of text messages and it opens in a breeze. It's nothing like the older 3G, 2G days. The iPhone 4 has decent internals, even if it is "3" cycles old. It really does. Still better than half of the phones being released. To tell me it could handle panoramic wallpapers in the earlier betas before Apple took it out, and now it can't, or that it can't handle a simple blurred layer is literally laughable, but I get it.
Either they aren't installing their betas correctly, or they've gotten unlucky. Beta 5 is smoother than iOS 6 for me. The *only* limitation the ip4 has, which is to be expected, is the opening of intensive applications. I have Messages with thousands of text messages and it opens in a breeze. It's nothing like the older 3G, 2G days. The iPhone 4 has decent internals, even if it is "3" cycles old. It really does. Still better than half of the phones being released. To tell me it could handle panoramic wallpapers in the earlier betas before Apple took it out, and now it can't, or that it can't handle a simple blurred layer is literally laughable, but I get it.
I am sorry to tell you but ios 7 beta 5 isn't near close to ios 6 in terms of smoothness. Open an app than press the home button and you'll see the animation lagging, typing on safari is laggy, so is spotlight and scrolling through songs is laggy to so ios 7 beta 5 isn't near close. And this comes from a user with 6.0.1 jailbroken with a lot of intense tweaks.
Either they aren't installing their betas correctly, or they've gotten unlucky. Beta 5 is smoother than iOS 6 for me. The *only* limitation the ip4 has, which is to be expected, is the opening of intensive applications. I have Messages with thousands of text messages and it opens in a breeze. It's nothing like the older 3G, 2G days. The iPhone 4 has decent internals, even if it is "3" cycles old. It really does. Still better than half of the phones being released. To tell me it could handle panoramic wallpapers in the earlier betas before Apple took it out, and now it can't, or that it can't handle a simple blurred layer is literally laughable, but I get it.
Damn, I'd love to be running Beta 5 of iOS:7. My iPhone 4 on iOS:6 is showing its age.
Well what do you expect? iOS 7 is optimized for the new iPhone 5S and you're 3 years behind in newest model. The processor etc can't handle all those effects or it would be even slower. It's like back in the day when people put vista on a PC from 05