IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by miltred » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 7:16 PM UTC

IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible
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Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by jbhelms » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:00 PM UTC

I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.

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Post by catch23 » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:20 PM UTC

jbhelms wrote: post #2

I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.

I also didn't have any problems either. I'm currently using the gm seed, and it seems not much different (speed-wise) on my 3G compared to the previous OS version (I was using 3.1.2 before)

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by there » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:27 PM UTC

now to see how many people will downgrade to ios 3 instead of being persuaded to upgrade to the iphone 4...

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by berryg » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:40 PM UTC

Performance is indeed bad. I downloaded iBook. It takes about a minute till the first page of Winnie the Pooh is shown. Flipping through the pages is slow.

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Post by mullr » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:41 PM UTC

jbhelms wrote: post #2

I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.

Same here. It actually feels a bit snappier to me in many places.

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by joezydeco » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 9:42 PM UTC

catch23 wrote: post #3

jbhelms wrote: post #2

I have had the iOS 4 on my iPhone 3g for almost 24 hours and haven't noticed anything weird or off the wall. I did notice that not much in iOS 4 is available on the 3g. No multitasking for one. I had some problems with Exchange, but a reboot of my phone fixed that.

I also didn't have any problems either. I'm currently using the gm seed, and it seems not much different (speed-wise) on my 3G compared to the previous OS version (I was using 3.1.2 before)

The GM seed is much better than some of the betas, but that's not saying much. Beta 3 on the 3G was especially bad.

But all in all I think the overhead of all these new features are slowly overwhelming the 3G. The only thing really worth it is mail threading.

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by mbreese » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 10:09 PM UTC

My 3G (w/ the 4 GM) routinely freezes to the point where it just stops responding to input. I'll probably attempt to downgrade it to 3 soon. Which, I honestly don't mind. I mean, I would rather Apple not even support the 3G with iOS 4 rather than have to deal with this user experience. It's not like it can even deal with background tasks anyway...

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by ignu » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 10:19 PM UTC

i just did speed tests with my coworkers 3GS running 3 and my 3Gs running 4 and camera, settings all were a lot faster with iOS4

Re: IPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible

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Post by studioprisoner » Tue, Jun 22, 2010, 10:26 PM UTC

I haven't had any issues yet. I have a 3G and it seems to be running great. I just have to update some apps that have an update in the app store and I should be right.