Comments on: How to speed up your iPhone 3G running iOS4

By: airmanchairman

airmanchairman — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:58:39 +0000

Sorry Daniel / People, couldn’t wait for this article to be revisited in the wake of iOS4.1 being made available.

My 3G, which I was well-pleased with even after the 4.0 upgrade, just got even better. Runs much faster, crisper and snappier after the 15 – 20 minute upgrade.

As a plus, my Plantronics Voyager 855 Stereo bluetooth headset just acquired the (full) AVRCP feature of NEXT / PREVIOUS selection via the Volume up / Down buttons, and I am over the moon!

W00t!!!

By: jaron

jaron — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:51:15 +0000

This helped my 3G a lot. Thanks!!

I was in the habit of shutting the phone off once every day (just holding down the top button and sliding to shut it down, then starting it up again) before the iOS4 upgrade, which seemed to keep it speedy, but that wasn’t effective anymore after the upgrade.

Doing the hard reset once, and turning off a bunch of Spotlight search options helped a ton, but it degraded again after a few days. Shutting off / on again seems to have helped again today.

So for me, the one hard reset seems to have done the trick, but the off / on habit every day also seems necessary.

My 16GB 3G is still noticeably slower than a friend’s 32GB 3G. He has way fewer Apps, and all his are free (arguably less intensive than many of mine).

By: eddieclay

eddieclay — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:04:09 +0000

After a full restore as a new phone: has been working like new for a week.

By: eddieclay

eddieclay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:14:58 +0000

This whole iOS 4 thing on my 3G, its Apple’s Vista.

By: ShabbaRanks

ShabbaRanks — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:01:14 +0000

Slightly off topic but yesterdays Apple press conference about was much more the behaviour I expect from Apple. They explained the issues well, pointed out why they consider it to be a minor issue at best and are going out of their way to provide cases for iPhone 4 users when they really don’t have to.
This kind of reply to “controversy” is what Apple should be doing, not banging out one sentence emails about how people are over-reacting.
I was unlucky enough to be watching the cnet feed of the conflab and saw, live, that the “journalists” there were really disappointed that Apple had only announced free cases and not a recall and redesign. They were also strangely preoccupied with how Apple “needs them” as tech journos.
Watching that feed made me realise that this antenna furore is manufactured specifically to put Apple in it’s place. Tech journos are prepared to kill their own grannies to push Apple to announce a redesign and recall. Even the BBC are getting in on the act which disappointed me. Their recent interest peice on how to return your mobile phone was obvious and depressing.
The issue is obviously real but there’s no way it’s affecting as many people as the media are making out.
Quick tip Steve: Journos/Saddos are sending you email to get a rise out of you and then publish it on their shitty blog. Be slightly more careful with what you’re emailing out.

Anyway.. Had to get that out of my system.

By: bitburn

bitburn — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:41:42 +0000

Go back you can indeed. Follow the link below. I did and rolled back to 3.1.3.

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/downgrade_iphone_os_40

By: mihomeagent

mihomeagent — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:14:32 +0000

I don’t note any improvement. And I did note a sharp degradation when I upgraded. Which I kind of wish I had not done. Can I go back?

By: nishkabob

nishkabob — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:48:38 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion… I force-restarted, and things did run a bit faster for a while, but gradually became glacial again. I would tap the screen and wait 5-10 seconds for anything to happen, so I just downgraded back to 3.1.3. Ah well, time for an iPhone 4…

By: alaskan

alaskan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:44:34 +0000

First background on my iphone, I have a 3Gs with 32GB. I am using just under half of the 32GB of space availible. (Apps, music, etc) Prior to upgrading to iOS4 my phone worked fine with no issues. After upgrading to iOS4 my phone has been buggy and laggy to the point of crashing when using every app (this includes apples apps mind you!) at least once per day. I have done both soft and hard reboots. I wiped and then reloaded the OS all to no avail. I have over 20+ years in the IT field as well as troubleshooting /electronics and programming experience so I’m no noob when it comes to knowing my way around devices and how to fix them or their OS’s..
I downgraded the phone to the previous release OS3.1 and have gone back to having no issues with the phone.
Until apple gets their act together and releases a fix for OS4 I’ll stick with the previous release. I wont bother saying I expected better because honestly I didn’t. Apple is no better than any other company out there, they are releasing subpar software and equipment just like the rest. The OS was probably coded in Chinia to boot..

By: Microphobe

Microphobe — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:27:08 +0000

I love visiting here for the substantiated insights and the respectful, spirited comments! I feel a real sense of community and I just wanted to add my findings after trying Daniel’s suggested procedure.

I have an iPhone 3Gs 16GB with 74 apps and 10.8GB free. I didn’t use a stopwatch but pressing and holding [Home] + [Sleep] seemed to initiate the process in fewer than ten seconds – more likely 4-5 secs. My 3Gs was up and running again very quickly: about 20 seconds.

I tried the rebuild due to one specific app: textfree by Pinger. Pre-rebuild scrolling through message threads was lethargic. I had to press and *hold briefly* then start sliding to initiate a scroll. After the rebuild scrolling is definitely more responsive (flicking the screen works again) but still slightly balky.

I have zero familiarity with the internal workings of iOS but thought I’d mention: remember to Sync before attempting any troubleshooting! Better safe than sorry, right? :-)