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IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

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Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

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Post by ronnier »

aresant wrote: post #8

There's also an emerging BlueTooth issue with the iPhone 4 - suprised this hasn't been picked up more. I know from my own personal experience (I've owned every iPhone, this is the only one wiht issues) and the growing complaints: http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+4+bluetooth+issue&...

My iPhone 4 also has two additional issues:

1) The compass points about 90 degrees the wrong way

2) When I plug my phone into my car's auxiliary input and use the phone to make calls, it broadcasts my voice over the speakers, as if it were a microphone. My iPhone 3G didn't do this.

Anybody else have these issues?

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#12

Post by ronnier »

hop wrote: post #7
siculars wrote: post #5

Any word on how this functions on older 3g and 3gs hardware? I've been waiting to upgrade my 3g due to reports of severe slowness on 3g+ios4.

I upgraded my 3g to iOS4 and its barely functioning, constant hangups - do not recommend upgrade. Very highly recommend the iPhone 4 though.

It made my 3G nearly unusable too, sometimes taking a minute to open the SMS app, or contacts. Typing was very difficult because it would hang once pressing a character.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#13

Post by ktsmith »

klinquist wrote: post #6
siculars wrote: post #5

Any word on how this functions on older 3g and 3gs hardware? I've been waiting to upgrade my 3g due to reports of severe slowness on 3g+ios4.

Reports show that it is no faster, unfortunately. If you haven't seen it, here's a parody of the original iPhone commercial showing a 3G on iOS4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg

iOS 4 is significantly worse on my 3G. The phone needs to be restarted a couple times per day. Mail and the SMS app crash pretty regularly and everything is significantly slower to respond. I've helped a few friends downgrade to 3.1.3 since they were having similar problems on the 3G. iOS 4 seems to work just fine on the 3GS however.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#14

Post by darklighter3 »

hop wrote: post #7
siculars wrote: post #5

Any word on how this functions on older 3g and 3gs hardware? I've been waiting to upgrade my 3g due to reports of severe slowness on 3g+ios4.

I upgraded my 3g to iOS4 and its barely functioning, constant hangups - do not recommend upgrade. Very highly recommend the iPhone 4 though.

I have also experienced extreme slowness with ios 4 on 3G. Clearing the safari cache and restarting made things quite a bit faster - but still slower than ios 3.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#15

Post by logic »

ktsmith wrote: post #13
klinquist wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reports show that it is no faster, unfortunately. If you haven't seen it, here's a parody of the original iPhone commercial showing a 3G on iOS4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg

iOS 4 is significantly worse on my 3G. The phone needs to be restarted a couple times per day. Mail and the SMS app crash pretty regularly and everything is significantly slower to respond. I've helped a few friends downgrade to 3.1.3 since they were having similar problems on the 3G. iOS 4 seems to work just fine on the 3GS however.

On my jailbroken 3G, I use the SBSettings processes option to forcefully kill off processes running in the background (yes, I foolishly enabled multitasking, thinking it would behave sanely; Backgrounder, another jailbroken app, provided this kind of functionality previously, and did so very well) and to force the garbage collector to run; the latter can help significantly.

Overall, 4.0 was not a good upgrade for the 3G.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#16

Post by illumin8 »

klinquist wrote: post #6
siculars wrote: post #5

Any word on how this functions on older 3g and 3gs hardware? I've been waiting to upgrade my 3g due to reports of severe slowness on 3g+ios4.

Reports show that it is no faster, unfortunately. If you haven't seen it, here's a parody of the original iPhone commercial showing a 3G on iOS4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg

That's a funny commercial, but maybe he should try a full settings restore (factory defaults, no restore of backup) of iOS 4 before giving up. It looks like he had a large music library, 6 open tabs in Safari, and a ton of email saved to the phone. Start with a fresh phone and re-load it and see if the problem clears up. It's most likely a remnant of a huge Safari cache, iPod library, and Mail.app account that is performing badly after the upgrade.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#18

Post by glhaynes »

ronnier wrote: post #11
aresant wrote: post #8

There's also an emerging BlueTooth issue with the iPhone 4 - suprised this hasn't been picked up more. I know from my own personal experience (I've owned every iPhone, this is the only one wiht issues) and the growing complaints: http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+4+bluetooth+issue&...

My iPhone 4 also has two additional issues: 1) The compass points about 90 degrees the wrong way 2) When I plug my phone into my car's auxiliary input and use the phone to make calls, it broadcasts my voice over the speakers, as if it were a microphone. My iPhone 3G didn't do this. Anybody else have these issues?

Does your compass consistently point 90 degrees the wrong way? I just realized I haven't tested the compass on my 4, but on my 3GS, the compass worked fine except when I was in the car; then, it consistently pointed 90 degrees the wrong way. And 99% of the instances in which I want to know my direction is in the car. Grrrrr.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

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Post by ronnier »

glhaynes wrote: post #18
ronnier wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My iPhone 4 also has two additional issues: 1) The compass points about 90 degrees the wrong way 2) When I plug my phone into my car's auxiliary input and use the phone to make calls, it broadcasts my voice over the speakers, as if it were a microphone. My iPhone 3G didn't do this. Anybody else have these issues?

Does your compass consistently point 90 degrees the wrong way? I just realized I haven't tested the compass on my 4, but on my 3GS, the compass worked fine except when I was in the car; then, it consistently pointed 90 degrees the wrong way. And 99% of the instances in which I want to know my direction is in the car. Grrrrr.

It seems to consistently point the wrong way, but not always 90 degrees. Sometimes it's 180 (talk about confusing). Right now it's off by 180 degrees while sitting in my office.

Also, when I open the compass application it prompts me with a "Compass Interference" message.

As a side note, I haven't had any of the reception problems.

Re: IOS 4.01, iPad 3.2.1 Released

#20

Post by MrRage »

illumin8 wrote: post #16
klinquist wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reports show that it is no faster, unfortunately. If you haven't seen it, here's a parody of the original iPhone commercial showing a 3G on iOS4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg

That's a funny commercial, but maybe he should try a full settings restore (factory defaults, no restore of backup) of iOS 4 before giving up. It looks like he had a large music library, 6 open tabs in Safari, and a ton of email saved to the phone. Start with a fresh phone and re-load it and see if the problem clears up. It's most likely a remnant of a huge Safari cache, iPod library, and Mail.app account that is per…

It's pretty shitty to have to wipe out your data just to get it to function like it should.
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