ios 5 make my ipod 4g slow

5.1 is much better than 5.0.1. Battery lasts longer and it will serve you for a while if you use some tricks to make it last long. I suggest what Adam said to update to 5.1 without back up. Just do a restore then update from iTunes and set it up as new. Then do the following:

- Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically to OFF.

- Settings > General > Spotlight Search and uncheck all of them.

- Settings > General > Restrictions should be OFF/Disabled.

- Settings > Brightness > Set Auto-Brightness to OFF and I guess if you keep the brightness low it will be better.

I suggest you turn Bluetooth and WiFi off if you don't use them cause they tend to drain the battery faster than you imagine. Also go to Notifications and disable notifications for apps that you don't use.

If you do all of this I'm %100 sure the battery will not drain like it did when you had 5.0.1 and it will last you longer

The problem is that exactly the new iOS 5.1 is designed for faster proceessors like iPhone and iPad. My iPod touch 4g is 32 gig and has become the most sluggish junk ever. Why would a company ruin their perfectly good product by updating something it's not that compatable for. While I type this everything freezes and sticks and just so annoying. Updates are supposed to make a product better and more effiecient not this crap.

I think Apple care too much about making money and not enough about its customers. Unfortunately most of us are unable to keep buying new devices everytime they are launched and as a "punishment" Apple release software updates which, as you point out, only spoil their products. Maybe if Apple launched a "trade-in and trade-up" scheme so that we could put our older devices in for part exchange once they become inefficient, then customers would feel less unhappy about the software update problems which are regularly experienced.

After posting here yesterday I decided to reset my iPod and that believe or not made a world of difference. Make sure it's iOS 5.1 and then do a reset. That is as you probably know holding the home button and sleep button together until the apple symbol appears. It worked for me only after it was its 5.1 cause I tried that with ios 5.0.1 but didn't help. My iPod touch 4g is pretty much like the way I bought it. Only complain is if I'm typing something like I was doing yesterday here it'll start to stick and slow down when the screen starts to follow the letters I'm typing. I guess it was sorta like that too when I bought it but I can't remember for sure. Hope it works for you too.

The iOS-World where everything just worked seems to be over now - don't trying to be pessimistic. People are already used to laggyness... Should I try upgrading... should I not... Schould I... Should I not... Is 5.1 harder to handle for the iPod touch than iOS 5.0.1 or not? As a side note: On 4.1 everything works well - with

Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically to ON, with - Settings > General > Spotlight Search and don't having anything unchecked, and with - Settings > Brightness > Set Auto-Brightness to ON. Why the **** should I turn all that crap off now?

And one last thing: The lagyness is the thing which is the most "user-un-friendliest." I don't care so much if my battery is serving a little bit less energy, that is just a bug in the system. Apple designed iOS5 from the ground up WRONG. That ist the problem!

Exactly! They don't even care about customers. Many many people called Apple Support and complained about this problem and we all got the same response "This is the first time we have heard of this problem"

Relax I honestly said the same thing when I read about those "tricks" to make the battery drain less. I shouldn't disable silly things to make my device last longer surely. Like Shelly and Timmy above said - iPod touch 4th Gen can't keep up with the new iOS 5 it's requires more RAM which only the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have.

One thing all of you guys having this problem can do---

First, double tap the home button. Then, you will see

a bunch of apps open. Hold down one of the apps like

you are going to delete it. You should see a little minus

sign come up. Tap it to close the apps that you want

to temporarily close. The more apps you close, the faster

your I-device goes. What i do is keep the 4 apps that I

use the most open, and my Ipod 4g runs really fast and does

not lag. This trick also saves a ton of battery. I don't know

if this works on anything other than IOS 5, but you

Should definetly try this. Solved my battery and lag problem.

All I know is I do all that double tap the home button and close the background apps but my iPod 4g was very sluggish since iOS 5.0. I even once after 5.0 did a total restore but that did nothing to stop the lagginess. But after iOS 5.1 I reset the my iPod like hold the home button and sleep button together till the apple logo shows. That actually fixed it now it's pretty much the way it was when I bought it. So I'm guessing it was ios 5.1 that fixed it and the fact I reset it.

Majic Gordon wrote:

One thing all of you guys having this problem can do---

First, double tap the home button. Then, you will see

a bunch of apps open. Hold down one of the apps like

you are going to delete it. You should see a little minus

sign come up. Tap it to close the apps that you want

to temporarily close. The more apps you close, the faster

your I-device goes. What i do is keep the 4 apps that I

use the most open, and my Ipod 4g runs really fast and does

not lag. This trick also saves a ton of battery. I don't know

if this works on anything other than IOS 5, but you

Should definetly try this. Solved my battery and lag problem.

I tried this and I was absolutely ASTOUNDED by how many of these I had to close. I naively thought that once you exit an app then it is closed. Almost every app on my iPod must have been running in the background for ages. I've also did a reboot and now its charging up again. I will let you know if this helps - but somehow it all makes sense so I look forward to a much faster iPod.

I'm still unsure about whether or not to update to O.S.5.1 - if it works better now then I may well just leave it as it is on O,S,5.0.1.

I'd be interested to know if this has helped anyone else

I upgraded today, from 4.1 to 5.1. Big step. The question ist: A big step ahead or...?

What I can say:

- Much better than iOS 5.0.1 (battery issues got a bit better; Coverflow's now 'sort of' smooth.)

- Some problems stayed (laggyness when unlocking with the slider first time you boot; very long shut-down times, even though I thing they got better as well.)

- Booting times are surpisingly low!

4.1 is much more stable, just doesn't has so many bells and whistles. If you have a jb-iPod touch on iOS 5.0.1 with SmoothCoverFlow an some other tricks installed, 5.0.1 ist a bit better I'd say. If your Ipod is not a jb-one iOS 5.1 ist better. I hope jb will come soon for 5.1.

One last thing: I often close my apps in the double-home-button-click-view. This didn't help me at all.

They are programmed to link to your runnig apps but should not use much of you ram when they are not open. They were introduced with 4.0 - not bringing any kinds of problems. I don't think that they cause issues in iOS5. It's something else.

Info: iTunes didn't give me the option to set my iPod up as a new one (without restore). I saw the screen but it was unclickable - in the front there already was the restoring-window. When I canceled it the first time trying, it threw me out of the upgrading-process. But I'm happy with my restore - otherwise I would have lost my gaming scores.

Your solution really Works, everyone should try it, Thanks a lot! 🙂

Guys... maybe you should read the whole threat and try the "solutions" for several days before post...

This "solution" was commented here since the begining... is not a solution... things still sluggish performing worst over time... apps crash, performance is crap... repeating some examples some times I wait more than 30 seconds for the main screen to scroll... or unlock... I clean apps from the task bar but this is not enought... (plus the system should do it for us like on the ipad or iphone...) this system is not optimized for the device... the device do not meet the specs needed to run iOS 5 properlly... Apple should fix or the device recolling all of them, or the system... no they even decide to start making apps only for iphone because they don't run well on ipod touch... like iPhoto! this is the "iphone without a phone" that we paid for... this is not the media device that run smooth and is more expensive that any other device in the market that we paid for...

Apple do not paid attention to this issue at all... moderetors of this forum are only concern if you brake the rules of the forum like talking about JB etc... every apple store we went... their stupid so called genius are always saying is the first time they hear about the issue... this is far unacceptable... I'm sending emails to every major tech magazine about the issue hoping they start publishing this... you should do the same...

stop trying the way to fix it... apple have to fix it... we paid enough for that...

Thanks ! yes this works ipod now faster a bit but not how he works on 4.1. What prog u use to look free memory? i use check ram and hardware info free app JHD and he shows 30-40 free memory when i listening music i think if i had 90 this will be perfect

I found out a way of making 5.1 run as fast as 4.3.5

IT cost me £15 I took my iPod to a repair centre they back dated my iPod to 4.3.5

Then I downloaded only 5.1 firmware not install to ipod

THen unplugged my iPod shut all running apps turned iPod off plugged back in to computer

And updated firmware so far my iPod is running as fast as it was running 4.3.5