I dont know if your service provider has this available to you...with Android you can always do what you want <ROOT it>
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Jobs: Software Update to Address iOS 4 Performance Issues on iPhone 3G 'Coming Soon'
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I dont know if your service provider has this available to you...with Android you can always do what you want <ROOT it>
Google it.A lot of people don't do a clean restore. When installed iOS4, I always recommend installing the IPSW, but NOT restoring from backup. Set it up as a new device, and manually install your applications (it doesn't take that long). You'd be surprised the difference it makes as so many factors can be carried over from previous use that may hinder and slow the device down.
Apple currently sells the 8GB iPod Touch that has similar specs to the iPhone 3G. If you buy a new 8GB iPod Touch today and connect it to iTunes, it wants to push the iOS4 to it.
If you upgrade, you a screwed by slowness and low battery life.
If you opt to not upgrade, you are also screwed because you can't install many apps in the App Store because many of the app developers updated their apps for iOS4 and then quickly yanked the previous version apps that could run with 3.x..
Apple screwed this up. Why try to blame the buyers for having too old equipment when the software doesn't even run right on hardware that is still for sale today?
I did that with my old iPhone 3G hoping it would fix it (I was giving it to someone)... however even just using it with the vanilla apps installed, it felt a bit sluggish (certainly not as bad as before, but still something not quite right). I ended up downgrading, and it was back to how I remember it, smooth.
Yeah sorry man, it's hit or miss sometimes. 3GS runs iOS4 well, but some 3G iPhones run it well, while others don't. I've seen it fixed with clean iOS4 installs, but I've also seen it run so slow my life crawled before my eyes.
My friend had a 3G with iOS4 run so slowly, it took 1-2 MINUTES for a response, even on a clean install. Then again, he had 9+ pages of apps lol.
Typical sequence of events goes something like this:
Customers: This is f'ed up!
Steve: We didn't f up. We never do.
Customers: This is REALLY f'ed up!
Apple engineers: We may have f'ed up.
Steve: We didn't f up.
Engineers: We have confirmed we've f'ed up and are working on a solution.
Steve: We didn't f up.
Customers: We're growing tired of this f up.
Engineers: We finally have a fix for this f up.
Steve" Here's a patch. It improves your experience. But remember, we never f'ed up.
Customers: This is f'ed up!
Steve: We didn't f up. We never do.
Customers: This is REALLY f'ed up!
Apple engineers: We may have f'ed up.
Steve: We didn't f up.
Engineers: We have confirmed we've f'ed up and are working on a solution.
Steve: We didn't f up.
Customers: We're growing tired of this f up.
Engineers: We finally have a fix for this f up.
Steve" Here's a patch. It improves your experience. But remember, we never f'ed up.
Brilliant!
I jailbroke my phone after being so upset by the hang-ups. the phone is not faster now, but i have wallpaper and multitasking along with screenlock and other small features. the way i see it, ios 4 for the iPhone 3G is the same as the regular ios 4, but with key features omitted. the reason for those omissions was that the phone would not be able to run properly with the new features. the ultimate slap in the face was that not only did the phone run ridiculously slow despite the omission, it didn't give me any new features except for folders, big whoops! now, my phone may still be slow as hell, but at least i have cool new features like multi-tasking and wallpaper background. also, i have the ability to run apps through CYDIA, apps like backgrounder and winterboard. moral of the story, i will never update my os without waiting in the future. and also, i see that apple is starting to care less about it's customers, not what attracted me to the company in the first place. i will be dropping AT&T as well, another perk of the jailbreak. i wonder if steve jobs knows that he's making people (like myself) who had no interest in jailbreaking, seek alternatives to fix their devices? does he care? bottom line: iOS 3.1.3 (or whatever the last update was) should have been it for the 3G. it seemed like a big F-YOU to me when i upgraded and suddenly had a piece of crap that begs to be skipped across a pond, in my hand.
I jailbroke my phone after being so upset by the hang-ups. the phone is not faster now, but i have wallpaper and multitasking along with screenlock and other small features. the way i see it, ios 4 for the iPhone 3G is the same as the regular ios 4, but with key features omitted. the reason for those omissions was that the phone would not be able to run properly with the new features. the ultimate slap in the face was that not only did the phone run ridiculously slow despite the omission, it didn't give me any new features except for folders, big whoops! now, my phone may still be slow as hell, but at least i have cool new features like multi-tasking and wallpaper background. also, i have the ability to run apps through CYDIA, apps like backgrounder and winterboard. moral of the story, i will never update my os without waiting in the future. and also, i see that apple is starting to care less about it's customers, not what attracted me to the company in the first place. i will be dropping AT&T as well, another perk of the jailbreak. i wonder if steve jobs knows that he's making people (like myself) who had no interest in jailbreaking, seek alternatives to fix their devices? does he care? bottom line: iOS 3.1.3 (or whatever the last update was) should have been it for the 3G. it seemed like a big F-YOU to me when i upgraded and suddenly had a piece of crap that begs to be skipped across a pond, in my hand.
Give Up!
Unfortunately, the choice is very clear. Pick up your iPhone 3G and hurl it at the wall with excessive force . . . or . . . break down and find some of the resources on the web on for restoring the iPhone back to 3.2.1. I did, it was a huge pain in the butt, but it was worth it and taught me a valuable lesson. I'm never going to update any software from Apple again until it has been out there for a few days and people comment on it. One of the dangers of being an "early adopter" is getting whacked with something like iOS4 which turns your iPhone 3G into a really fancy paperweight.
Unfortunately, the choice is very clear. Pick up your iPhone 3G and hurl it at the wall with excessive force . . . or . . . break down and find some of the resources on the web on for restoring the iPhone back to 3.2.1. I did, it was a huge pain in the butt, but it was worth it and taught me a valuable lesson. I'm never going to update any software from Apple again until it has been out there for a few days and people comment on it. One of the dangers of being an "early adopter" is getting whacked with something like iOS4 which turns your iPhone 3G into a really fancy paperweight.
some people are so ignorant...
its not a bug when a new firmware makes a device completely unusable. its called crappy development, crappy testing, and crappy qc.
I used my 3g for about a year and it worked great and I told everyone to get one. I even got my wife a Iphone as well as my two kids and my brother, thank God I upgraded OS before she did. I told her to make sure that she never upgraded her phone again after my phone shot craps. Now the bad thing is that she is the Mac user in the family and she kept trying to defend apple.... so she did not follow my advice and upgraded... in the mean time I bought a android phone (and by the way I love it).... We call eachohter about 5 times during the day for breaks and lunch at work... she keeps complaining now how she can not anwser the phone when I call and how her phone is having problems... I just tell her that mine works fine. I always loved my IPhone until apple broke it and that really pushed me away from the products after that (left a bad taste in my mouth). I have 5 phones in my plan and I have a feeling that the other 4 are going to follow my path of going android after the "update" or should I call it "downgrade" that ITunes told them that they should do.
Anytime Jobs want to get around to "fixing" iPhone 4 issues, we're ready.
Just remember....
Apple should never had released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G.
The upgrade path would have been simple: buy an iPhone 4.
The upgrade path would have been simple: buy an iPhone 4.
To the people who "don't get it", here's how you can "get" the frustration:
1) iTunes will want to push out iOS4 when you connect your iPhone
2) If you do the upgrade and then realise it's completely ruined the user experience, you can't downgrade easily
3) If you do downgrade, you can't run many apps that are now iOS4-dependant.
Seriously, people, not that difficult. When Steve gets out in front of people and says "iOS4 is awesome! We know the 3G isn't as fast, so we're lopping off some of the more processor-intensive features so you can still upgrade" you don't then expect said upgrade to make your phone completely unusable.
I've actually had honest-to-goodness hard reboots while taking calls, something that hasn't happened in the 2-odd years I've owned this phone before the upgrade. Apps that worked fine previously now crash out, lag or just fail to work entirely. I've killed Spotlight, done numerous hard resets and a complete reinstall. Nothing resolves the problem because the OS is completely incapable of running properly on this hardware.
The usual Apple Apologetics don't bother me normally, but in this case you're talking about a previously completely fine device that has been essentially bricked by an OS update that Apple want you to install.
And to those who say "just buy a new phone, lol" I pity your complete ignorance of reality. Cheers.
/rant
1) iTunes will want to push out iOS4 when you connect your iPhone
2) If you do the upgrade and then realise it's completely ruined the user experience, you can't downgrade easily
3) If you do downgrade, you can't run many apps that are now iOS4-dependant.
Seriously, people, not that difficult. When Steve gets out in front of people and says "iOS4 is awesome! We know the 3G isn't as fast, so we're lopping off some of the more processor-intensive features so you can still upgrade" you don't then expect said upgrade to make your phone completely unusable.
I've actually had honest-to-goodness hard reboots while taking calls, something that hasn't happened in the 2-odd years I've owned this phone before the upgrade. Apps that worked fine previously now crash out, lag or just fail to work entirely. I've killed Spotlight, done numerous hard resets and a complete reinstall. Nothing resolves the problem because the OS is completely incapable of running properly on this hardware.
The usual Apple Apologetics don't bother me normally, but in this case you're talking about a previously completely fine device that has been essentially bricked by an OS update that Apple want you to install.
And to those who say "just buy a new phone, lol" I pity your complete ignorance of reality. Cheers.
/rant
Too late
I got the iphone4 because 3G was a slug, stuck with new issues, I would switch back if 3G wasn't so slow.
I got the iphone4 because 3G was a slug, stuck with new issues, I would switch back if 3G wasn't so slow.
Honestly, iPhone 3g owners should just jailbreak and get the packages that make it usable. Unfortunately it's gotten to that, but its not worth suffering and hoping 4.1 fixes things. I like Jobs, but if i was suffering with an unusably laggy phone, and jailbreaking would fix it...i know what i would do...
interesting.
But if that is the case, especially for a phone bought less than 4 to 5 months ago then how can it be said "it just works"?
My 3G is beyond a joke. My video would make the iPhone in this parody look decidedly slick. [hang, freeze, lag, crash, crash, lag]
My problems esp when using Safari. Check that. My problems come when TRYING to use Safari; now I can't. It is that bad. Basically unusable.
My 3G is certainly a little slower than it was pre-upgrade, but on the whole it still works OK. However, I can't help thinking that a lot of people on here have very short memories. This time last year iOS 3.1 came out and there were hundreds of pages on Forums of people claiming that it had "bricked" their iPhone. It was all over the media and it took Apple a long time (in my opinion) to get the software sorted. Everything was back to normal and what did Apple do - bring out an upgrade that put us back to square one. Is this going to become an annual occurrence whenever a new device is launched that runs under a new version of iOS.
I'm not an iPhone geek and I'm not a supporter of Apple or Microsoft. When I buy any piece of technology I just want it to do what it's supposed to do. When I sync my phone and the manufacturer recommends that I upgrade the software I just do it because rightly or wrongly I expect them to know more about the subject than me. I certainly don't think that I should have to watch press conferences held by Steve Jobs and then look for hidden clues as to whether I should upgrade or not.
I had intended to buy a new iPhone 4 but if I'm truthful it's not the phone that's stopping me buying one - it's Apple. This "Holier than Thou" attitude that they give out just turns me off them. Maybe when all the dust settles I'll get round to buying the latest version - I do like my iPhone when it's working properly.
Could I also say that it doesn't help when people (including Apple) slag off the opposition. I'm not interested in what they are doing , it's what Apple are doing that matters to me.
I'm not an iPhone geek and I'm not a supporter of Apple or Microsoft. When I buy any piece of technology I just want it to do what it's supposed to do. When I sync my phone and the manufacturer recommends that I upgrade the software I just do it because rightly or wrongly I expect them to know more about the subject than me. I certainly don't think that I should have to watch press conferences held by Steve Jobs and then look for hidden clues as to whether I should upgrade or not.
I had intended to buy a new iPhone 4 but if I'm truthful it's not the phone that's stopping me buying one - it's Apple. This "Holier than Thou" attitude that they give out just turns me off them. Maybe when all the dust settles I'll get round to buying the latest version - I do like my iPhone when it's working properly.
Could I also say that it doesn't help when people (including Apple) slag off the opposition. I'm not interested in what they are doing , it's what Apple are doing that matters to me.
Let's be clear here, it has been two months and Apple still has not even acknowledged that there is a serious problem:
- The WSJ got one unnamed Apple "spokeswoman" to acknowledge that "Apple is aware of the reports and is looking into the matter". Awareness of reports is utterly meaningless ... they could look into reports and decide that putting a spinning beach ball over my non-responsive keyboard or over my inability to answer calls is the fix - much like they did with their fake show-fewer-bars response to signal issues.
- Jobs said "Software update coming soon." Yeah, no duh! But that doesn't mean it fixes anything.
Hey that's my 3G!
Great video. Unfortunately its absolutely true.
I've emailed Apple asking for them to restore the iPhone I bought back.
I just want to have what I bought.
It was great.
I'm at a total loss why they trashed the device with this new OS.
Great video. Unfortunately its absolutely true.
I've emailed Apple asking for them to restore the iPhone I bought back.
I just want to have what I bought.
It was great.
I'm at a total loss why they trashed the device with this new OS.