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

[Daniel Thorpe]

Downgrading isn't really non-trivial, but is quite straightforward nowadays. There are numerous tutorials on the internet on how to do it such as: http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2010/06/28/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-from-ios-4-to-3-1-3/

I put the iOS 4 beta on my iPhone 3G, and pretty quickly downgraded it back. Other than Folders and Unified Inbox, it doesn't really get an new features. No background apps, not even homescreen wallpaper. It did seem to be even more sluggish launching apps, which was why I put 3.1.3 back.

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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