UPDATED: How’s your iPhone 3G on iOS 4 working?
It’s been a little while now since iOS 4 was released so we thought we’d check back and see how it’s working (or not) for those of you with the 2008 iPhone 3G?
My iPhone 3G (above, yeah, cracked perhaps a tad poetically) really chugged away at first, but after a clean install (not restored from backup) and turning off Spotlight Search, it’s working much better now. Of course, if you’ve gotten used to an iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS, it’s obviously slower but if its your one and only — or newly acquired hand-me-down, it’s almost as fast as it was under iOS 3.x.
Let us know your experience, and if you’ve come across any other speed tips we’d love to hear them.
Update: According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is looking into the issue. [WSJ]
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Unlike a lot of people here, my iPhone 3G seems to be running fine. I wish I would have multi-tasking, but oh well. The longest part of the upgrade to iOS4 was the back-up…which took at least 8.5 hours…maybe longer. What nonsense. Make sure to keep your apps updated so that the software developers get any bugs fixed that cause crashes.
Ios4 on 3GS tv out doesn’t allow wide screen.
IOS4 on Iphone 3G, if you can get it to install properly (it took me 2 days to finally get my phone working again) it stalls, crashes regularly, and slows all applications. What a disaster!
It works good. At first, it was awfully slow. I guess it was related to the fact I enabled native multitasking and it was killing it’s speed and overall performance. I restored from backup and hell my iPhone wasn’t being enjoyable at first. I found that killing all the apps running in the native multitasking helps a hell of a lot. It makes sense too.
I think all of you with problems need to chill a bit and think a whole lot more. My son’s 3G works just fine on iOS4. No difference what-so-ever.
What did we do: waited for the early adopters to start complaining, focused on the obvious, a back-up, a dfu restore from a downloaded iOS4 file, installation of only those apps that are iOS4 compatible, resync everything else and re-set settings. Yes, a bit of a pain. However, if instead of rushing in and updating to an OS you had no understanding of, on a phone you’ve probably owned for a year or more and have no understanding of, you had poked around the web a bit and learned from others, you would probably not be so upset.
Mine works just fine. The update was flawless, no perceptible loss of speed, and no conflicts with my apps.