iOS 4 Initial impressions

Jyrki Kallio wrote:
There is a bug in the Calendar. The List view is badly messed, events show under wrong days. Day and Month views work OK.

Mine seems OK. All events this week and next are correct the the List View.

Phil

It will be interesting to compare the new iPhone 4 with the 3GS. So far OS4 on the 3GS is a huge improvement. Of course, the new phone will add some speed and hardware enhancements.

Phil

i still can't believe that it took over 30 minutes to run a back-up before syncing....and on an i7 with 8GB RAM!!!

what is the point of having folders if you can't even put an entire screen's worth of apps into one folder???

i don't give a rip about the other crap in this update....unified inbox? yawn multitasking? *battery waster* folders? *dropped the ball on this*

how about adding the ability to download custom sounds for MMS? that would send a chill up my leg.

I have the same problem. Camera Roll looks fine, but Photo Library looks like it went through the JPEG ringer one too many times.

*****, it erased everything on my phone and i've been on the computer for 4 hours waiting to for this thing to update and no luck what so ever, there are more problems then there is happy people, i've lost contacts, apps, photos, music, everything. and to boot i'm still wait for the "restoring iphone software" b.s. and its been half an hr on top of the 4 hrs i already waited. complete b.s. very disappointed, lost a lot of pics, a lot which makes me furious.

Which part of the message warning that the contents of your iPhone would be erased when you did the update?

Why are your pics not on your computer? Did you not sync them before you did the update?

I suppose MMS tones are thrilling if you are a child. Yawn.

Message was edited by: Ian Parkinson

Yep, I'm seeing the same thing. I'm sure it will be resolved on the next sync.

Help! Is there a way to customize your home screen? I thought IOS4 would allow you to have your temp, time, missed calls, calendar, mail etc. on the home screen simultaneously. If not, I am greatly disappointed!!

I had the same thing, I couldn't find the Notes sync option that people were talking about but finally figured out that I had to delete my Gmail account which was setup as an Exchange account and then reset it up as a Google account.

Great, I had Notes sync now but in doing so it removed sync from Contacts which to me is more important.

I just deleted the account again and set the Exchange on back up.

I am having a b *h of a time with the Calendar sync at the moment, for some reason my Birthdays calendar subscription has triplicated all the entries.

I can confirm this bug also! Only applies to list view. The other views appear correct. List view was ok at the start but then it became screwed up later.

Peter Mcmullan wrote:
I'm also experiencing some slowdown in games. Well just angry birds, haven't really tried any others.

I've tried my games (including Angry Birds, what a brilliant game). But I have noticed NO slowdown whatsoever since updating to iOS 4.

leberg wrote:
Where do you adjust portration orientation?

Double click the home button. Next swipe your thumb/finger from left to right on the multi tasking section icons at the bottom of the iPhone screen, until you see a square icon with a circular shaped arrow inside it (its a grey square/icon. Tap it once and it shows 'PORTRAIT ORIENTATION LOCKED'. 🙂

w7ox wrote:
It will be interesting to compare the new iPhone 4 with the 3GS. So far OS4 on the 3GS is a huge improvement.

Phil

Yeah, I too was thinking the same last night. Can't wait to see the iPhone 4 running iOS4

joeypremo wrote:
*****, it erased everything on my phone and i've been on the computer for 4 hours waiting to for this thing to update and no luck what so ever, there are more problems then there is happy people, i've lost contacts, apps, photos, music, everything. and to boot i'm still wait for the "restoring iphone software" b.s. and its been half an hr on top of the 4 hrs i already waited. complete b.s. very disappointed, lost a lot of pics, a lot which makes me furious.

You are warned that the iPhone contents will be erased. So you should have backed up your iPhone just prior to updating and then backed up the information of the iPhone backup to an external source (external hard drive, USB stick etc), this is what I did just incase anything went wrong (it didn't thankfully).