OS4 Slowed My iPhone 3G

[Resist]

I couldn't be anymore pissed about what upgrading my iPhone 3G to OS4 has done to the speed of my phone. Many of the apps have not be optimized for OS4, so they don't work correctly or don't work at all. I am shocked at how many app developers still have not fixed their apps so they work right with OS4. Even though they knew about the OS4 release, months in advance.

Recently OS4 has gotten very sluggish, even with the native apps. It has gotten so bad that using my iPhone is getting to be a pain. I want my previous OS back!

Seems like Apple screwed us over with this one, knowing we can't go back and our only other option would be to buy the iPhone 4.

 

[baller1308]

Did you restore from backup or do a clean install? I did a clean install and mine is running just fine, if not better than before with 3.1.3.

 

[iBookG4user]

OS 3.1.2 was already pretty slow as is, so it was pretty expected that iOS 4 would run badly on the 3G. Sorry to tell you, but the 3G is pretty old now (I say this because I too currently own and used a 3G)

 

[djasterix]

Did you restore from backup or do a clean install? I did a clean install and mine is running just fine, if not better than before with 3.1.3.

Same here, clean install of iOS4 and is running better than before

 

[Resist]

Did you restore from backup or do a clean install?

I never saw an option to do a clean install. I clicked yes to upgrade to OS4 and it did the rest. But I do remember it doing a restore. How would I do a clean install and if I did, would I be able to get everything back?

 

[Jinkst]

I never saw an option to do a clean install. I clicked yes to upgrade to OS4 and it did the rest. But I do remember it doing a restore. How would I do a clean install and if I did, would I be able to get everything back?

I believe what they meant was getting rid of everything and starting from scratch without a backup. So you could still restore from a backup later if you wanted, but the clean install would be getting rid of everything and setting up as a new phone.

As for mine it's actually running faster than when on 3.1.2. I've jailbroken and enabled multitasking, home screen walls etc and surprisingly it's working great. I thought I'd throw it against the wall before iPhone 4 reached Australian shores but it's been great.

 

[Resist]

I believe what they meant was getting rid of everything and starting from scratch without a backup.

How do you do that?

 

[Matthew Yohe]

How do you do that?

Just do a "Restore", let it install 4.0 again and then don't let it restore the backup. (Set up as a new iPhone)

 

[iFerd]

Just do a "Restore", let it install 4.0 again and then don't let it restore the backup. (Set up as a new iPhone)

That's what I did and I'm quite pleased now. It also made me clean house when I put apps back. If I couldn't remember why I had an app or remember the last time I used it, I didn't put it back. That was a good thing. I don't need folders after all.