Update 4.1: is out!

No problems with the update; phone is generally faster. The only problems I experienced before were speed and some of the apps seemed to 'overwhelm' the system. Now everything seems more responsive and smoother. Worth the wait.

Personally, I think iOS 4.1 is a pretty significant improvement to iOS 4. My phone seems much more responsive and less prone to hanging and apps crashing (I'm blaming crashing apps on the app now rather than the OS). Regarding black picture previews in the pictures app, I've always been in the habit of syncing photos to iPhoto every time I dock my phone and then putting the ones I want to keep on the phone in a special album, so I've never had that problem.

I will say, what's up with no Game Center support for the iPhone 3G? It was supported while in beta, the 2nd gen iPod Touch is supported, why not us? I want to upgrade to an iPhone 4 ASAP, for that beautiful retina display, FaceTime, etc., but can't afford it right now. Why can't I use Game Center?

I finally got my 3G working. Initially, when I updated to 4.1, ALL of my third party apps would crash on launch, itunes would not sync any music to my phone. It was giving me an error when i tried to restore the phone from a backup.

I decided to give up on the restore (risking the loss of my in-app data...), and i decided to let itunes set it up as a new phone. When I did, everything worked flawlessly (for once...). All of my apps work, and my phone still (somehow) ended up with the in-app data. All is good by me.

I havent noticed much in the way of speed differences from 3.1.3, but it is much snappier than 4.0.

After restarting my iPhone several times there is BIG improvement. My iPhone 3G runing ios4.1 is as fast as my other iPhone 3G running 3.1.3!

Proximity sensor is fixed with 4.1, but my battery discharges like crazy...after an half our of uses, I am at 54%

But I thought I read that the 4.0.x was fast when first installed then got all mucked up as time went on (sounds like a windows computer:) )



As for poor battery performance, the 3G is kinda old. Typical Lithium batteries are good for about 2 years. The battery may have just given up the ghost and not an OS issue.

So I'm hanging out for review down the road. I'm still in 3.1.3, never tried the 4.0x's (didn't want the iSpam, only Apple could get away with making their spam seem hip 🙂 ) My only compelling reason is a few apps that want 4.x

See http://www.anandtech.com/show/3893/caring-for-the-elderly-ios-41-speed-boost-on- iphone-3g for details on the differences between the 3G, the 3GS and the 4 iPhones. Perhaps Game Center was only coded in ARMv7 instructions and requies the extra power of processor and memory to work.

I've stayed well away from the ios4 since it began fearing everything that people have since had trouble with, however I have still suffered from sluggish performance and apps crashing, presumably due to the fact they've been re written for ios4 and glitch out in OS3.1.3. If it is infact true that they've fixed the iphone3g issues with the new os then i look forward to upgrading finally as the new feature sounds nice but they're no good if it takes a fortnight to load them.

Message was edited by: Natedog79

Message was edited by: Natedog79

Installed 4.1 yesterday.

Phone is now back to normal, feeling responsive and usable again.
I can't believe I've spent so long with a phone that did not work!

Perhaps an iOS roll-back feature should be implemented as a safe guard to protect against such issues in the future.

Got 3G updated with iOS4.1 without problems.
The 3G is more reactive than the earlier version and some App can now be used w/o problems. This version seems to improve much of the problems encoutered by updating from iOS3 to 4.0

Thats better. Updated my 3G to 4.1 and type/copy/paste/main button usability has returned - it was system 7 on an Iicx déjà vu for a while there. Time to ebay the 3G before it becomes 'no longer updated'