Thanks, Apple, for making my 3G suck while I wait for my iPhone 4.

[6-0 Prolene]

OP, you had all day to go pick up your phone. Why didn't you go back to the Apple Store AFTER work?

A reserved iPhone is just that, a reserved iPhone. No one else can take it, only you. A reserved iPhone is NOT a speed pass. People who reserved their phones WILL get their phone. They had all day to pick it up.

Non-pre orders did not have a reserved phone and had to "wait and see".

There should only have been one line. As you enter the store you tell them whether or not you have a reservation, and then they take the phone from the appropriate pile and continue on as normal.

Once all the walk-in phones are gone, all the other walk-ins waiting can leave...making the line shorter for reservations.

I had an hour during the day. I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that you should be able to pick up something you ordered in that kind of timeframe.

And I DID stop by after work, only to find a line just as long at 8:30 PM. I wasn't exactly in the mood to get turned away empty handed when the store closed.

Here on Earth when dealling with a company or reserving an item, it's not considered all that crazy to be able to pick up something you reserved within a reasonable timeframe. I've been using Macs for 15 years and somehow still have the ability to realize this is dumb.

 

[jacoder]

I was in line since 8:30p previous day and got the phone @ 7:30am.

Almost 12 hrs.

4 hours eh? Nice and short, Waited from 7am till 3pm while i was 100th in line...
During that time probably 1.5k preorders went thru. Reservation should not = quick service, it should only gaurentee you can get the phone. Apparently apple thinks otherwise and that they should be pampered

 

[6-0 Prolene]

I was in line since 8:30p previous day and got the phone @ 7:30am.

Almost 12 hrs.

It's almost like the Apple Store could've looked at the reservation list and said "Man, we've got 2000 people coming in for phones, and each activation takes 5 minutes. Maybe we should have more than 2 people activating phones tomorrow."

Oh, wait, this is Apple. They shouldn't be held to that kind of stringent standard.

 

[jacoder]

Well... they do have more than 2 people activating phones in my area.

It's almost like the Apple Store could've looked at the reservation list and said "Man, we've got 2000 people coming in for phones, and each activation takes 5 minutes. Maybe we should have more than 2 people activating phones tomorrow."

 

[6-0 Prolene]

Well... they do have more than 2 people activating phones in my area.

I'm sure there's store-to-store variation when it comes to this, but clearly the management of the store I reserved from dropped the ball.

 

[Arran]

Yeah, I've tried everything but the clean restore. Not sure I want to mess with it.

Yeah I tried the clean restore on my 3G because - for whatever reason - the regular upgrade process couldn't restore my old data once OS4 was on. Bummer

Anyway, the cleanly restored phone performed great, but I really wanted all my old data and settings back (it's amazing all the little tweaks you apply over the years). In the end, I went into time machine and overlaid a 2 day old iPhone backup over the clean restore. Everything works great now.

 

[sjinsjca]

What I've heard can help your 3G is to do a hard reset twice in a row.

Hold down the power and home buttons simultaneously. A swipe-to-turn-off screen will come up. Ignore; keep holding those buttons. After a few moments the phone will summarily turn off. Count to ten, then press the power button. After a moment the Apple logo will appear, and the phone will begin the lengthy process of cold booting.

Then, when you're presented with the lock screen, do it again.

Since it takes a while to reboot, you can just leave the phone and come back a while later. You don't need to pounce on the thing as soon as it boots the first time.

I've read several reports that this enables the 3G and 3GS to better digest the upgrade to iOS 4. Clears caches, sweeps away the cobwebs, etc.

Hope it works for you too.

 

[chrisk1250]

I find it strange that many of your 3G's are experiencing the slowdown. I've updated 2 and both of them run much more fluidly in my opinion. Certain apps seem slower though, notably SMS, although the OS as a whole seems faster.

When I press the home button I always get the animation back to the home screen. With 3.1.3 it used to stutter and then just bring me back.

 

[bluenoise]

I'm in exactly the same boat as the OP, except I didn't preorder the phone. My wife and I both updated our 3G phones to 4.0, but it's all but killed mine while hers seems fine. I have had several crashes in Safari and most tasks take 10+ seconds to respond. Add to that, the 4.0 update made it so the iPhone won't work any more with the audio interface in my car, unless I order this $30 upgrade (backordered already, of course).

I may as well try either rolling back to the previous OS or doing a clean restore while I wait for iPhone 4s to be available again.

 

[aturner10]

iOS 4 was very slow on my 3g. Tried resetting all settings and reboots... nothing worked. I'm now back on 3.1.2 and will continue to wait for my iPhone 4 to arrive in mid-July. I'm still holding out hope that it will get shipped early...probably foolish thinking, though.

 

[Mystikal]

4 hours eh? Nice and short, Waited from 7am till 3pm while i was 100th in line...
During that time probably 1.5k preorders went thru. Reservation should not = quick service, it should only gaurentee you can get the phone. Apparently apple thinks otherwise and that they should be pampered

You could either a) be smart and preorder ahead of time and make it easy on yourself or b) not do that and risk not getting a phone.

Obviously, if you reserved, you should go in first because you took the time to do so.

 

[acutshall]

The iPhone 4 experience is getting infuriating.

In the mean time, though, I downloaded and installed iOS 4 on my 3G. HUGE mistake. Pretty much the only features worth any mention that actually work on the 3G are folders and the unified inbox, and the performance decrement has been enormous. Things that once worked smoothly are annoyingly slow. rotating the screen can be a 10-15 second process, there's now a huge lag when sending text messages, the Mail app runs slower... everything just sucks. There's now a significant lag doing just about everything on my 3G under iOS 4.

Ditto on all the above. This accompanied with Jobs attitude towards users having issues with IPhone 4G antenna makes me want to switch to a Droid

 

[selahvie]

I find it strange that many of your 3G's are experiencing the slowdown. I've updated 2 and both of them run much more fluidly in my opinion. Certain apps seem slower though, notably SMS, although the OS as a whole seems faster.

When I press the home button I always get the animation back to the home screen. With 3.1.3 it used to stutter and then just bring me back.

+1 I upgraded both my phone and my wife's (both 8GB 3G) and both run great with iOS4. On top of that, I jailbroke mine on iOS4 earlier today and even with running custom wallpaper on the home screen and multitasking, it still runs great. I'm not noticing any difference in performance navigating around the OS. I guess I'm just lucky. I jailbroke/unlocked it to increase resale value when my iPhone 4 arrives on Tuesday (and my wife's on Wednesday), but now I'm wondering why I didn't do this a long time ago. Some screenshots of Wallpapers and Multitasking in action:

 

[mrblog47]

A little underhanded.

I think it's a bit suspicious that apple would release a software update that they knew would at least partially cripple the 3G and at the same time release their new phone 4 which they hope the 3g owners would upgrade to.
Looking at this on first impressions, it seems really obvious that apple just deliberately made their previous generation phones a lot more difficult to use in order to increase sales of their new phone.
Apple should re release the previous firmware upgrade for the 3G with the security updated that are in the new software included.
This is unacceptable that a company should release such a sub par update for their product and expect users to deal with it or buy the new phone.

 

[sinsin07]

The iPhone 4 experience is getting infuriating.

I'm working away from home right now, so getting my iPhone shipped on release day wasn't an option (they'll only ship to the AT&T service address). So I decided to pick up my iPhone 4 at a local Apple store. Made the reservation, etc. etc.

Little did I know that my "reservation" earned me the right to stand in line for 4 hours waiting for my phone. Being an adult with an actual life and a job, I didn't exactly have the option of spending my day there, so I left. So I ordered my iPhone 4 for mid-July delivery to my house.

Sounds like a personal problem. Your schedule did not allow you to order online or stand in line. Also it appears like a lack of preparation on your part. iPhone launches are not new. You should have done some research so you know what to expect.

In the mean time, though, I downloaded and installed iOS 4 on my 3G. HUGE mistake. Pretty much the only features worth any mention that actually work on the 3G are folders and the unified inbox, and the performance decrement has been enormous. Things that once worked smoothly are annoyingly slow. rotating the screen can be a 10-15 second process, there's now a huge lag when sending text messages, the Mail app runs slower... everything just sucks. There's now a significant lag doing just about everything on my 3G under iOS 4.

Again, lack of preparation. You know about the boards, you could of got an idea of what to expect on your 3G beforehand instead of being so impatient with wanting IOS 4. This is sounding like a 4 year old.

Between the total sham of "reservations" at the stores and the mess that the "upgrade" to iOS4 made of my 3G I'm feeling pretty disgruntled.

Thousands and thousands of people across the US apparently got their reservations. They waited in line. The reservations where not a sham, your expectations were.

That wasn't my experience at all. I wish I had gone to the "pampering" store. I, for one, believe that a reservation should mean that you walk in and pick up a phone within a reasonable time frame. Why else would anyone reserve a phone?

If you want pampering, make enough money that you never have to stand in line. You pick up a phone, put in request and have it delivered in hours to you. Your expectations for an iPhone release in some locations is not reasonable.

Apple did nothing to you, you did it to yourself.

what planet do you live on?

My sentiments exactly. Queue waambulance.

 

[bluenoise]

I was trying to figure out why my iPhone 3G was barely functioning (crashes, lags of tens of seconds on some things, etc.) while my wife's just suffers a mild slowdown with iOS4 and I noticed she had more free space than me. I was down to about 120 MB free space available. When I used a memory viewer, I had nearly zero free RAM, so I suspect it was having to swap a lot of stuff to the storage and was having trouble with my full iPhone. This morning, I deleted a bunch of music and videos I didn't really need and freed up about a gig of space. Now, my iPhone is running much, much better than before. I don't know if my theory is correct or if the second sync cleaned things up.

There are still some painful lags and delays, but I haven't had anything crash out, yet, and most things are working fine. It's worth a try, if you're having troubles.

 

[yelnref]

Yeah, I've tried everything but the clean restore. Not sure I want to mess with it.

Definitely set up as a new phone. I couldn't be assed with restoring all my apps, music, etc and restored my 16Gb 3G from a backup. Huge mistake. Set up as new a couple of nights ago and all is groovy now.

PITA but worth it.

 

[Paulywauly]

To all the people reading this who have a dog slow 3G running IOS4, have you checked to see how much RAM your 3G is using? When running OS3 i normally had about 48MB free, with IOS4 its more like 1MB - nowhere near enough for apps

 

[Hankster]

what planet do you live on?

He lives on the planet of "the world revolves around me and I'm the most important things breathing air". Gotta love it. Ignorance at its best.

 

[mcarthon]

My apple had 16 reps checking people out and activating phones. I highly doubt yours only had 2 reps and not sure how you would know since you never actually got inside the store. So stop being a little prissy girl and complain to people who care. If you weren't willing to wait or properly pre order one for delivery then tough luck just wait and don't bitch unless it's at yourself for being ready for the launch.

Thx