[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone 3G with iOS4

[David Tarrant]

I noticed this in the 2 days before I upgraded to an iPhone 4 but after a complete reset (so I could give it to my other half) thing speeded up to the point of acceptability on the device. Not iPhone 4 speeds but certainly not unusable.

Dave T

On 30 Jun 2010, at 12:00, Chris Andrews wrote:

> To give the other side of the debate, I upgraded my 3G to OS4, and it has become almost unusably slow* - and that is before I saw what an iPhone 4 was like. At some point, I may try reinstalling it to see if that fixes the problem, or I may simply Jailbreak and downgrade to 3.1.3.
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> The small things are nice to have, but I would advise others to think carefully about upgrading, since downgrading is non-trivial.
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> It is possible that the iPhone was already this slow, as Tim says, but I have certainly noticed it more since installing OS4.
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> Chris
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> * By this I mean that once a text arrives and I swipe to view and reply, it takes around 10 seconds from swiping to unlock to the phone actually becoming responsive in the messaging app. Simple unlocks take around 5 seconds, and the keyboard is regularly unresponsive.
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> On 30/06/2010 11:47, Tim Chown wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Some people have given mixed reports about the pros/cons of upgrading a 3G.
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>> I would say the iPhone is about as fast (or slow!) as it was before.  Other have said it's much slower, but maybe they've seen the speed of an iPhone4.
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>> There's now big new 'wow' feature, but quite a few nice enhancements like mail threading.
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>> Worth doing in my view.
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>> Tim
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