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has any other 3G owners notice this?

by fady 16y ago

ronnier 16y ago
Yes. My 3G became unusable, half of the time. Typing a text message became a difficult task. Not only did it take 30 seconds just to open the SMS app, pressing a character would cause the phone to lock up for a few seconds, leaving the character in its pressed state. Please note, this wasn't constant though, it did work half of the time. Overall upgrading to 4 seemed to be a huge burden on the phone for whatever reason. I've since upgraded to an iPhone 4 which is fantastic.
zds 16y ago
I also had to reinstall iOS4 after the first install - my phone slowed to a crawl and I still notice the issues with email that you've mentioned. It's not really worth the update, as all you end up with is a slower OS with folders.
maukdaddy 16y ago
After upgrading to 4.0 my phone was pretty laggy. Some apps were worse than others. Maps was almost useless, would hang for 20 seconds while not responding to touches. However, 4.0.1 seems to have fixed most of the lag issues. In fact, I think 4.0.1 runs better than the 3.2 I had before upgrading.
dilap 16y ago
I haven't encountered any bugs, but I do experience the random hangs + general slowness, and it's awful. It seems like Apple was lazy and didn't test properly on older hardware (or perhaps didn't focus as much as they should have on, "is this user experience good?" on older hardware).
adbge 16y ago
I can attest to this. My iPhone 3G user experience is atrocious on iOS4. Things are very, very choppy and I spend a lot of time waiting for things to load. Actions as simple as hitting a key while typing a text message can cause the phone to lock up for several seconds. iOS4 should never have been pushed to the iPhone 3G. I would expect better quality from a public alpha. Best case scenario, realistically, would be for Apple to allow 3G users to downgrade back to 3.x. I doubt that Apple is going to bother optimizing iOS4 for legacy hardware. Unfortunately, I've still got about 8 months on my contract until I can adopt an Android device.
ktsmith 16y ago
I've posted about my problems with iOS 4 here previously. The 4.01 upgrade failed miserably yesterday and after a default restore and then resync it seems to be much better on 4.01 than it was with the initial 4.0 release. It's still not nearly as usable as it was with the 3.x OS.
fady 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I should have never updated, and the work to downgrade is not worth it

has any other 3G owners notice this?

by fady 16y ago

has any other 3G owners notice this?

Yes. My 3G became unusable, half of the time. Typing a text message became a difficult task. Not only did it take 30 seconds just to open the SMS app, pressing a character would cause the phone to lock up for a few seconds, leaving the character in its pressed state. Please note, this wasn't constant though, it did work half of the time. Overall upgrading to 4 seemed to be a huge burden on the phone for whatever reason. I've since upgraded to an iPhone 4 which is fantastic.

zds 16y ago

I also had to reinstall iOS4 after the first install - my phone slowed to a crawl and I still notice the issues with email that you've mentioned. It's not really worth the update, as all you end up with is a slower OS with folders.

maukdaddy 16y ago

After upgrading to 4.0 my phone was pretty laggy. Some apps were worse than others. Maps was almost useless, would hang for 20 seconds while not responding to touches. However, 4.0.1 seems to have fixed most of the lag issues. In fact, I think 4.0.1 runs better than the 3.2 I had before upgrading.

dilap 16y ago

I haven't encountered any bugs, but I do experience the random hangs + general slowness, and it's awful. It seems like Apple was lazy and didn't test properly on older hardware (or perhaps didn't focus as much as they should have on, "is this user experience good?" on older hardware).

adbge 16y ago

I can attest to this. My iPhone 3G user experience is atrocious on iOS4. Things are very, very choppy and I spend a lot of time waiting for things to load. Actions as simple as hitting a key while typing a text message can cause the phone to lock up for several seconds. iOS4 should never have been pushed to the iPhone 3G. I would expect better quality from a public alpha. Best case scenario, realistically, would be for Apple to allow 3G users to downgrade back to 3.x. I doubt that Apple is going to bother optimizing iOS4 for legacy hardware. Unfortunately, I've still got about 8 months on my contract until I can adopt an Android device.

ktsmith 16y ago

I've posted about my problems with iOS 4 here previously. The 4.01 upgrade failed miserably yesterday and after a default restore and then resync it seems to be much better on 4.01 than it was with the initial 4.0 release. It's still not nearly as usable as it was with the 3.x OS.

fady 16y ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I should have never updated, and the work to downgrade is not worth it