Are all your contacts still there? I don't keep my contacts on my computer and fear I would have to re-install all of them, which would be a pain.
IT WORKED!!!
Let me preface this with the fact that I am a web developer, was extremely skeptical that it would work, and had already tried a hard reset before, but I dis something VERY DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT.
I REPEAT. I HAD DONE SEVERAL HARD RESETS BEFORE AND NONE HAD WORKED UNTIL I DID THIS:
When doing a hard reset hold both buttons until after it turns off and as the apple appears and it starts to load. When it starts to load after shutting off after the hard reset, WHILE YOU ARE STILL HOLDING DOWN BOTH BUTTONS, it will turn off again (this time for good).
That's it. That's what fixed what was an unusable iPhone 3g and turned it into something halfway between a 3G and a 3GS. =) =)
Sweet! It worked, for now
Thanks for the tip.
Email me at jman995x@yahoo.com and let me know what you think about the Nexus One.
I've been eyeing that phone for a little while and am curious what a previous iPhone user thinks.
It's the only phone that could get me to jump ship away from the iPhone.
J.
Sweet! It worked, for now
Thanks for the tip.
Sweet! It worked, for now
Thanks for the tip.
The "hold down button" thing above didn't help me.
Apple genius guy said I should do a factory restore and set up as a new phone. At that point, i'll lose all my contacts anyway (no idea how to back them up on a pc)- so I might as well roll back to 3 at that point, right?
The "hold down button" thing above didn't help me.
Apple genius guy said I should do a factory restore and set up as a new phone. At that point, i'll lose all my contacts anyway (no idea how to back them up on a pc)- so I might as well roll back to 3 at that point, right?
Why not do the factory restore (the Apple software) AND restore your data? That's essentially what I did. See my post #50 in this thread for the steps.
Macster84,
I got to step 5 of your procedure and then things got confusing, iTunes asked me if I wanted to restore my iPhone, warning me that if I did I would lose all my data and it would be restored to the factory default settings. I didn't see anything about restoring my backup.
But I was wondering if I could just right click my iPhone in iTunes, under Devices, and then click the "restore from backup" option?
Okay I figured that out.
Okay I figured that out. I don't see any speed improvements with OS4 and I lost my saved and sent emails.
One issue did crop up during all this. Camera Roll shows I have 79 pictures, yet I can't see them in the initial Camera Roll contact sheet screen. It shows up as all black. Yet if I randomly pick on spot on the black area, it opens one of my pictures. I tried taking a new picture and it showed up fine on the contact sheet. My Photo Library contact sheet is also fine. Any suggestions?
Yes the inbox emails match, but any of the emails I sent out from my iPhone are gone.Emails should match your desktop computer's. At first, mine appeared to be gone too, but then they came back, 1 screen at a time, as they were eventually redownloaded from various email account servers back to the iPhone.
My 3G was also EXTREMELY slow with OS4. I really don't know why they would release it for the 3G!! I thought that it may seem faster over time but it was just not usable. I downgraded back to 3.1.3 and I noticed a huge difference.
I'm going to upgrade to an Android Nexus One on Monday and avoid upgrading to the iP4 problems.
Cheers.