iOS 4.3 Running Sluggish?

JohnNY123 wrote:
I'm kind of suspicious about the fact that it was so horrible for a few days and then suddenly everything is fine, but I'll have to watch it and see what happens. We were even seeing crazy stuff last night like the phone locking itself and the battery life displaying "39%" one minute and then "90%" the next minute.

From that description it sounds like your battery gauge lost its calibration during the update, and got recalibrated when you fully discharged it and recharged it.

Hi Lawrence...

Actually, I should clarify.

When I said "...it was so horrible...", I was speaking about everything that was going on, not just the battery life issue.

It's so strange. Virtually every problem is gone. There's still a fraction of a second pause here and there when doing things, but nothing like yesterday.

It's an interesting theory that you mentioned that if the battery calibration somehow got screwed up during the upgrade, perhaps that "electronic issue" was somehow causing all of the other problems I was experiencing.

I might never know.....but for now it works (knock on wood!) and I'll be keeping an eye on it and I'll post here if anything changes.

John

Thanks for the post man. I'm still on 4.2.1 and I'll stay on this Firmware until Apple releases a fix.

And Apple, why are you ignoring us 3GS users? Just because the iPhone 4 is so special to you guys. And your forcing us to buy the iPhone 4? Alright, what's special about the iPhone 4? Well there's FaceTime, Retina Display, HD Recording, iMovie? That's it? Video Calling isn't new Apple, its been here for a while. Retina Display? Eh ok. HD Recording? HA, i can record in HD on my 3GS if I get a Software from Cydia. iMovie? I can still run this on iPhone 3GS with a simple hack. Oh remember what happened on launch day or was it the week after it was released? The Antenna Gate which everyone was talking about. Grip it, you lose signal. Then they made the bumper cases and it fixes the solution. This proves that the iPhone 4 design is defective. If your lefty, then that is an issue for you. I'm not saying the iPhone 4 *****, but the point is that why upgrade to the iPhone 4 if there's not a lot of things offered. Both the iPhone 3GS and 4 are similar in terms of Hardware. The CPU and GPU are exactly the same, except the Apple A4 chip is just one chip for both CPU and GPU. So not much of a difference in performance.

I think Apple, for once, you need to know how to optimize performance instead of adding more features Its good to add more, but gets bloated overtime and causes performance to drop. The iPhone is good, but updates causes a lot of problems with the phone.

Xx1Dustin1Xx wrote:
Thanks for the post man. I'm still on 4.2.1 and I'll stay on this Firmware until Apple releases a fix.

Fix what? There are no issues with iOS4.3 that are consistent among enough users to indicate an iOS issue.
The slowness issue has been reported by 3GS users with every version of 4.x that was released and it's never been a bug. It's always been a user specific issue.


Just because 1, 100, 1000, or 100 thousand users have a problem; that does not make it a bug in the OS. There are millions of iPhones in use around the world that are simply not having issues. Less than 1% of users are posting to these forums, and of those, only a small minority are having issues.

Stay on whatever version you want, but do not justify your reluctance to upgrade based on issues posted here, they simply are not the experiences of the majority.

Glad your iPhone is running good mate. I guess the charge must have given the phone a kick up the backside lol

How do you know that there aint enough issues with 4.3 that are consistent enough for a fix? Do you work for Apple? If yes then please enlighten us. If you dont, then your going by your own guesswork according to posts on the forums.

Millions of people aint got time to be coming to these forums or bother with their phone after an update. A lot will call AppleCare directly, a lot will go directly into an Apple store. A lot of people probably havent event done a 4.3 update.

Apple Techs who I have spoken to, as well as Genius staff at my local store, have advised me that they ARE aware of issues caused by 4.3 to certain users. Although it may not be significant enough to effect most people, even if a small number are effected then thats still not good enough.

So please dont give us information based purely on these forums, try and look at the bigger picture.

KooLBLuE wrote:
How do you know that there aint enough issues with 4.3 that are consistent enough for a fix? Do you work for Apple? If yes then please enlighten us. If you dont, then your going by your own guesswork according to posts on the forums.

I give you the same challenge. How do you know there ARE a lot of issues? Because there are some messages here? If you went into a hospital and discovered that everyone there except the staff were sick would you conclude that everyone in the world was sick?

If there are issues with 4.3 there were as many or more issues with every other release since the first.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12667836&#12667836

Ha ha Since when did I say there was a "lot" of issues? I said there are issues with 4.3! Even if a small percentage of people have issues, thats still not good for the Apple brand.

So 100% im gonna say that Apple need to carry out a fix with their next update.

And 100% I'm gonna say they won't, based on past history of a dozen other updates where they didn't.

Well Lawrence you are rather annoying in this thread, you seem to be some kind of blind Apple cheerleader or the like.

Anyway for all 3gs owners living in reality, the harsh reality of 4.3 update gimping their 3gs, I have the same problem too. Sluggish response time, horrible animations, pauses, just general crappyness.
I took pride in how my 3gs ran like BUTTER, but now its a dog. I have tried all the goofy *** methods that Apple and weirdo's like Lawrence expect us to be wasting our life doing, and they didn't do squat.

Case in point. I have my wife's iphone right here in front of me with the old OS running, all the same apps as I have. It runs like butter. Then next to it is mine, with my foolishly updated firmware 4.3, and it runs like MUD. Side by side comparison, same phones, its the OS nothing more that is gimping these phones. Sort it out Apple, this blows.

I thought my iPhone was running sluggish after the update and after reading your post I realize it isn't anymore? Very strange almost as if there was some background task of reorganization or ??? that was triggered by 4.3 and now that it is done things are back to "normal"

Apple has released 4.3.1. Can anyone try it and tell if the issues are resolved?

I just finished installing 4.3.1. Figured what the heck because my phone couldn't have gotten much worse. If it does, it will be in about a hundred pieces on the ground.

So........
, it's early but I can already tell that it is running much smoother. Time will tell but if it doesn't freeze up and/or reboot itself several times by this evening we may have a fix. I'll check back in after I've had some time to use multiple apps, etc.

Well, whadayaknow! I updated mine and it seemed better...I then decided to do a restore as new just to make sure. WOW. ALOT better! Time will tell, as mine seemed to get worse after a few days, but I do notice a difference on this one! I have only 19 apps loaded back on, and I haven't put any of my 12gb of music or 8gb of videos back on. I figured I would run a while without those before i go and spend that time....I'm not sure what they fixed....but they fixed something! Anyone else???

Updated as well and things seem smooth thus far. The most annoying part of the 4.3 "sluggish" behavior, on my phone, was my Slide To Unlock bar was twitchy and sometimes didn't unlock with one swipe; that problem seems to have been remedied.