Your iPhone 3G Useless after iOS 4 Upgrade?
Apple’s iPhone 3G had some very big performance issues after the iOS 4 update first came out. While many of the problems have been fixed with the version 4.1 update, let’s be honest here. The iPhone 3G is never going to run iOS 4.x as quickly as it ran 3.x. Why? The new operating system has more eye candy, more features and needs more system resources to run. That is not stopping the lawsuits however.
A woman named Biana Wofford is suing Apple for turning her iPhone 3G into a “device with little more use than that of a paper weight,” after the iOS 4 update. She wants her lawsuit turned into a class action and claims that Apple knew how poorly the iPhone 3G would run the new OS. Her lawsuit is based on the idea that Apple intentionally rolled out such a poor update for the 3G to force iPhone owners to upgrade to an iPhone 4. You have an opinion on this? Let me know.
Anyway, Wofford’s suit goes on to say that since Apple does not officially allow users of iOS devices to downgrade their operating systems, Apple locked iPhone 3G owners into the broken OS. She does have some truth here—to downgrade an iOS device, you need to go through some hacker steps.
How have your experiences with the iPhone 3G and even the iPhone 3GS been with iOS 4? The first version of iOS 4 was slow, buggy and frustrating. iOS 4.1 has fixed a lot of the problems but is still nowhere near the same user experience as the iPhone 4. Besides just the lack of HDR photography abilities in the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the iPhone 3G has not gotten Game Center. It also does not have multitasking among other things. Battery drain issues have also been reported along with crashes and general slow performance.
Do Wofford’s claims have some legitimacy? Should iPhone 3G owners have even gotten the iOS 4 update? Are you ‘stuck’ with iOS 4 on your iPhone 3G and wishing you could go back to good old iOS 3.x? Has the 4.1 update fixed any of your problems or did you resort to hacking your iPhone to downgrade? Let me know what you think in the comments. Hopefully Apple decides to let users downgrade OS versions in the future via iTunes, but I would not count on it.
Tags: iPhone 3g, iOS 4, ios, iPhone 3gs, lawsuit
There is absolutely no way apple did not test ios 4x on 3g/3gs hardware and realize that it would result in a brick-like phone.
I downgraded my 3gs as soon as the *fix* was available – don’t care about apple warranties and will be joining the Android camp soon
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My iPhone is completely worthless since the upgrade. I can no longer send email from my phone, which is my primary purpose for having it. It is ridiculous for Apple not to offer a solution for 3gs customers. If they can’t fix the bugs for us they should be replacing our phones. If there is a class action suit filed I will be participating for sure….
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4.2 is just as retardeeed! i want my money back
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They also bricked the iPod Touch. Ever since 4.0, I have had random lock ups, freezes and shutdowns. They have a bug in their OS and updating to the most recently released 4.2 did not cure it. My touch was working *FINE* until IOS 4.0
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If I ever meet Steve jobs he better have more than one body guard with him. iTunes informed me recently that my auto update was turned off. Yes it’s off for a reason. When I tried to cancel my phone was bricked. Had to install 4.1 to get it back but now it will not play tunes without skipping 10 times per song. I replaced my USB cable, no help. Now I have a $600 pioneer head unit that is useless. I ordered my truck with audio controls on the steering wheel. Now usless. This was a safety upgrade to keep me from messing with a small player while driving. Now all useless. I did not even get the opportunity to refuse the update. Sue by all means. If I ever see him I don’t believe I can be that civil. I am way beond just not buying any apple products in the future. Steve has so much money a law suite could never get his attention the way I would like to.
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What a joke, iOS4.1 still has not addressed anything. The 3G is still so slow, it’s painful to use prior to upgrading. Opening any app or settings is slower than what it used to be.
Apple, please re-release the 3.1.3 for 3G users, thanks!
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my 3G has iOS 4.1 on it and I ended up downgrading to 3.1.3 using steps found on the internet. The process was actually very simple (used Windows x64) and took no more than 7-10 minutes. Phone works like the day it was purchased. It isn’t as fast as the 3Gs or 4, but I don’t mind having to wait and extra few seconds for things to load now and again.
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My iPhone 3G is now useless. Had a good iPhone 3G, updated to OS 4.1 via iTunes 10.0.0.1.22. Big problems!
Now phone shows EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY. No Apps, no login, no signal, no ability to restore.
When connected to iTunes and selecting MYiPhone, iTunes shows “Couldn’t complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred -9812″.
Impossible to recover! Unacceptable.
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iOS 4 slowed my iPhone 3G. It runs fine now with iOS 4.1.
Pursuit of money will make greedy lawyers and clients lie through their teeth.
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I think she has a pretty good point. When I upgraded my 3g to 4.0, the phone would frequently drop calls and freeze a lot. I actually thought I had dropped it one too many times and that I would have to buy a new one. Luckily I was able to downgrade back to 3.1.3 and my phone actually works again, though downgrading did require some effort. Apple should be required to have a downgrade option as 4.x is complete shit on 3g’s.
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HDR photography and Game Center have nothing to do with the fact that the Operating system is made for a faster phone and they let people with slower phones install it and not let them downgrade
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My iphone 3G is useless now that I upgraded to 4.1 – it was bad with 4.0 now it is much worse
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