Q: Iphone 3G slow after update to IOS4

I have the same problem everything slowed down. The I-Pod is even affected, song are slow to load and some times just stops playing and boots off. Getting phone numbers and information seems like I'm back using my old 286 16mhz.

Supposedly 4.2 comes out on the 9th. Interesting? Will there be performance restoration for us 3G users? I thought that was what they promised with 4.1? Fine, lets wait a couple days and test.

v1ct0r,

All of us really hope so. I've seen great improvements when going from 4.0.x to 4.1, even if the speed of 3.1.3 is another thing.

I'm experimenting with 3.1.3 these days, as I wrote, and yes, is faster, but not everywhere; Safari is an example, I have the impression that 4.1 version is faster, at least according to my experience.

What I've noticed, also, is that with 3.1.3 I have more lost calls than with 4.1, but here the variables are too much to have a final conclusion.

For me (and this could be not true for everybody) folders and Mail make the difference; many apps also are not more downloadable with 3.1.3.

So I'll give a try also to 4.2, hoping that Apple made it right, this time.

Bugfixer,

I agree with you, I can't say that v4.1 didn't improve things a bit but when using in the field you really get the feel of its sluggishness. I wouldn't mind downgrading back to v3 with support from Apple, just so I can have a faster phone, I don't really need all those new features.

My main gripe is with Google Maps, it takes forever to load and update the location progress.

The one thing I am really concerned about is the fact that my wallet can't keep up with the iPhone's technological direction. Yes all technology moves forward, and with computers even those from Apple, you have a choice not to upgrade/update both your software and hardware, I just wish it was more like this for us iPhone users.

The tradeoff between a usable phone or a new feature should be a decision made by the user.

v1ct0r wrote:
Bugfixer,

...The tradeoff between a usable phone or a new feature should be a decision made by the user.

Agreed.

My 3G was also painfully slow.
I also did the backupi via itunes and restored it.
It helped for a while. But now it begi s to slow down again.
After 3+ weeks. Sad story.

I think that ios 4.1 is fairly slow aswell, but 4.2 will be released soon and supposedly will make it smoother and snappier

I wont be doing any OS update until I confirm the 4.2 OS fixes my 3g. I use to LOVE my 3G ! After I updated my 3G to 4.1 OS I now have constant data signal loss, dropped phone calls, opera moves at a crawl, takes forever to type something in the search box so internet browsing is useless and forget about using the map feature. My drudge app is now so slow its also useless. My phone is still under warranty and I may go into a ATT store and complain. I called ATT and of course they told me all I can do is wait for the 4.2 OS. I have two 3g iphones. Luckily I only loaded 4.1 OS on one phone. I pay way too much money per month to have one phone which is useless to me.

I installed the GM version of 4.2 last week on my iPhone 3G and it was horribly slow. I turned off spotlight and did the resets and it didn't help any.

Reverted back to 3.13 and it's back to a fast iPhone 3G again.

v1ct0r wrote:
The tradeoff between a usable phone or a new feature should be a decision made by the user.

Obviously I agree, too. It's possible with Macs, why not for iPhone?

Loaded Pampers wrote:
I installed the GM version of 4.2 last week on my iPhone 3G and it was horribly slow. I turned off spotlight and did the resets and it didn't help any.

Ouch, bad news, here. Did you do an update or a complete reinstall?

I'm back to 4.1 to see where are the differences. In the meanwhile I've just discovered a big problem with the Phone app, on 4.1. If you have a MobileMe account like I have and launch the Phone app, I'm barely able to hear the person I'm calling, hearing pieces of words, at least at the beginning.

I discovered that this is related to the Contacts of my MobileMe account. What I think is that when you launch the Phone app, contacts are synchronized with MobileMe, and this takes a lot of cpu/network resources.

In fact, disabling the Contacts in my MobileMe account on the iPhone, everything is back to normal.

I hope that Apple has fixed this on 4.2. But if I have to:

(1) Disable spotlight
(2) Disable Push notifications
(3) Disable MobileMe
(4) Disable other features

I've bought the iPhone for what? I don't want to go back to 3.1.3, I want a 3.1.4 with all the security fixes AND folders AND the new email app! Or a 4.2 really working on a 3G. GRIN.

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No news of ios 4.2 yet?

Been checking the update back to back now

I also have a 3G phone that worked fine UNTIL I upgraded to iOS4 or even 4.1. Now, everything is slow. I have to have a lock on my phone for work, even that takes forever; I cannot even enter in my 4 digit code at one time; I have to enter the 1st digit (count to ten) enter 2nd (count to ten), etc..

I installed an app called System - For Your Device. It has a screen that shows the running apps and sometimes I have 6 or 7 apps running at the same time. Now, if I go to the Memory screen it shows it all used but if I wait 8 secs, it frees up a lot of memory and I go back and the other apps are not running. This app does not let me Kill the extra apps I want. (But the Memory page seems to work)

I want my old OS3 Back!!!!!!!

I am reading a lot about memory usage along with the 4 o/s update. Some are having more problems than others with the slowness, etc and some seem to feel it is connected with he memory usage. I am wondering if anyone has looked at the difference with he problem and memory between the 8gb,16gb and 32gb 3G iphones? I have a 16GB and it has many problems since the update but I don't find as much seemingly as others report. Wondering if it could be more 8gb models are having the memory problems? Curious.