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iPhone 3G better performance on iOS 4.2?

So I didn't know 4.2 was coming today and I downgraded my moms 3G to 3.1.3 yesterday. It's night and day from iOS 4.0 which is what she had. Of course she lost her contact and pics but I can get it back once I update to the newest version. I wanted to know before I updated to 4.2 to see how it's working on everyones iPhone 3G. How's it responding to open safari, settings, apps, texting, emails? Thanks!!!!

Mac mini ~ iPhone 4 ~ iPod nano ~ iPod shuffle

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 1:51 PM

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willfreddie

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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 2:01 PM

just installed 4.2.1 on my 3g and its loads faster - notes and email fonts bigger, love it back to a phone that i can use again

cheers steve

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Jan 22, 2011 7:05 AM in response to elledge77

Hi,
Just wondering how you downgraded to ios 3. I have ios 4.2 on my iphone 3g and I want to downgrade to 3 something or even 4.1 so I can syc it back up with my powerbook running 4.11 and i tunes 9. I have 10.5.8 and itunes 10 on another machine just to fool around with but didn't realize that 4.2 can't syc up with itunes 9. Any suggestions?

-Scott

Jan 22, 2011 3:04 PM in response to Yanki01

I installed 4.2.1 a week after it was released and I was relieved it didn't make things worse... or so I thought. It basically turned my iPhone into a Phone. Maps don't work well due to problems with data and with the GPS. I tried to update apps from itunes store, I can't get past the password. I now update apps via my desktop (for some reason the same password works there.

I can honestly say I now HATE my iPhone. Apple has cheated us and now won't let us go back to IOS 3. That is the last O/S that was stable on this platform. Apple really owes us all.

Apr 15, 2011 10:27 AM in response to dj9928

are you running mulitple apps? That alone will cause it to be extremely slow.

iPhone 3G better performance on iOS 4.2?