Slow iPhone 3G after 3.0 OS update

Same here , bud... 3.0 is fun and useful, but quite annoying on the reliability side.

Yep, me as well

I have the same problem. It takes 3 seconds to load messages, 5-10 seconds to load settings and forever to startup... I don't have many apps installed. Really annoying!

Well the 3G does have a slower processor and the OS is asked to do a lot more, so slowdowns are a slight necessary evil. 3.0 introduces many new features, and it is only logical that the bigger something gets, the more it can slowdown. I am sure they will continue to optimize and speed it up, but I also doubt it will be as fast as it was two years ago.

Not OK when using a real-time application or game! Try using it for music -- what a bummer!

Is there anyway to turn off background notifications or something to stop these stalls? Like go into airplane mode or disable push or anything? This seems like a critical problem! Do people see this on the 3Gs? I won't upgrade if so.

SMS Messages seem to take an age to open after the update 😟

I installed the OS 3.0 on my iPhone 3G (not the 3GS). Ugh, it has been so laggy!!! I couldn't care less about the new features and apps because I only use it as a phone, web browser, and email app (I don't play games on it). I wanted a performance improvement, having heard that Safari was improved. Boy, I got the exact opposite of performance improvement. There is a lag in everything, especially the screen rotation that gets stuck in the unwanted position all of the time. I hate this! Can I downgrade back to the old version? SO NOT WORTH IT!!!



This review site expands on these frustrations: http://gadgetsteria.com/2009/06/23/iphone-os-3-0-on-non-3gs-devices-slow-stutter y-and-just-plain-terrible/

Message was edited by: calgirl2

I too had significant slowing after the 3.0 OS update - it was painful and irritating. Fortunately the slowing corrected with a simple hard reset. Give it a try and things may revert back to normal.

Same unacceptable problem here... I want the performance back!

You need to do a restore people, this will fix the issue, be sure to always use the USB ports on the back of your desktops is what apple told me, otherwise you can get a curruption during the download

Disabling push worked for me. Also, a clean restore to "new phone" worked wonders, reloading apps directly to phone one at a time.

i am having this same problem also. it is very irritating. apple needs to do something about this. how do we get something done about this problem?? is posting on here getting anything done. i am a first timer on here. this makes me sooo frustrated that i set up account just to comment.

Just to weigh in, mine's slow too, in all the ways mentioned above. And, I find no new compelling features that make 3.0 worth the slow down. All the cool stuff is on the new phones. Mine is 6 months old, and I'm a bit miffed that the latest OS makes it dog slow. The typical OS upgrade makes things better, not worse!

Care to guess when 3.1 will be out?