Apple is Investigating iPhone 3G Problems With iOS 4

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Posted July 28, 2010 at 9:55pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple is investigating reports that iOS 4 causes issues when running on the iPhone 3G, an Apple spokesperson told the WSJ.

The most common criticism is that the phone is slow after an upgrade. There are also many complaints that the phone drains the battery quickly and becomes excessively hot. Concern about general problems such as slowness and battery life on gadgets isn’t unusual, but using iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G seems to make the problems so bad that the phone is nearly unusable for some people.

We've posted on these issues before. As you can see in the video below they can be quite troublesome for users affected. Hopefully, a fix will be found soon.

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Dnique - June 5, 2011 at 10:38pm

I'm still having all of these same issues and haven't found anywhere where Apple has fixed it. Any insight as to if this has been fixed or how to fix it?

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Oppermafkees - July 30, 2010 at 2:54am

Maybe apple should advise people to jailbrake! after i used supercharge my phone is as fast as it was in os3 :)

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Alexander larsen - July 29, 2010 at 9:02am

I bet they ginna blame the jailbreak! Stupid apple!!! But what can we do? They make so good idevices!!!

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awaabahmed - July 29, 2010 at 8:20am

seriously its about time your'l have a look into it.... iphone 3g is really very slow with ios 4 version...... and most of the app's are not supported yet either.... iv downgraded my phone back to 3.1.3 and hoping the problems in ios 4 is fixed asap...!!!!!

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Spencer - July 29, 2010 at 4:08am

Yep!... indeed that is my 3G as well - I am afraid...!!! - I have found that the battery also makes your phone into a heater... on 4.0 ...sometimes.... What I do - is to stop the web-browser... I delete all the weblinks - back to blank... (in other words stop safari trying to scan..) seeing that the operating system is multi-tasking - it does this by itself - even when not multi-tasking...as in 3.0 ... I also - turn off the 3G option...hmmm... some programs like internet intensive connections - do this as well... like Gtalk - web-browsing etc etc... Thanks.... Spencer ~Sabatta

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yoshac - July 29, 2010 at 10:16pm

I didn't jailbreak or use pwnage tool. it seems the upgrade process may leave some background junk from 3.x running. by putting iPhone into dfu mode and doing a 4.0 restore from iTunes it cleared out that junk I guess

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fenrry - July 29, 2010 at 4:05am

...after many tests they concluded that it's the same problem with any "smartphone" after any upgrade, to validate the point they recorded videos of BB's, Nokia's, Se's, Moto's, Htc's....etc.... Also they pointed that the best solution is to upgrade to the new iPhone 4.

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Josh - July 29, 2010 at 10:13am

Yep. Just like apple to say "Never you mind the problem with our phone. Look at all these other phones that have problems!" It's exactly what they did with the antena problem on the iPhone 4. And of course the best solution is to buy a new phone! Why in the world would they want to fix issues with your old phone when they know you're going to buy a newer "better" phone.

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loop - July 29, 2010 at 3:39am

My Solution (I've read it in the comments of a Forum somewhere): Configure the Spotlight Search! Go to Settings - General - Homebutton - Spotlight; Deactivate all the Places you don't really need to search in (I deactivated everything except mail) and your 3G runs like iOS4 did never happen :-) Worked at least for me!

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Aaron Wright - July 28, 2010 at 11:29pm

What's funny is that's not even iOS4. I hadn't even jailbroken iOS4 yet and I had all these problems. I had to at least jailbreak and see, then decided to "downgrade". Best decision I made. Eveything the "new" platform offers has long been offered in the jailbreak community. Come up with something NEW Apple! Not something someone else has already pioneered!

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yoshac - July 28, 2010 at 10:40pm

I had this problem - hot, slow, fast battery drain - after updating to iOS 4 Solution was to do DFU restore. No more problems after that.

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Randy - July 28, 2010 at 10:57pm

had this problem extreeeeemely bad. couldn't take it anymore, sold it on craigslist for $250, bought an iphone 4, couldnt be happier!

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Haha - July 28, 2010 at 11:04pm

Thats a good hustle! Smart

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Spencer - July 29, 2010 at 10:44am

Hi there Yoshac.... please can you try to contact me.... you might have just the answer I need to have Clarified... Seriously - I believe that there is some hack that needs to be done...??? Did you use - Pwnage Tool 4.01 - ..??? Can you please reply - if you can...??? Regards Spencer

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