Aug 18 2010
Dial back your iPhone 3G or 3GS to a previous iOS
As mentioned before, iOS 4.0 on the 3G iPhone is not awesome—it’s slow, over heated, quickly drains the battery and is generally unstable. And though Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is working on fixing the situation, the rest of us need to get stuff done in the meantime.
My friend, Mike Bjorndal ( @mbjorndal ) pointed me to this iHackintosh article that allowed me to put my iPhone in DFU mode, restore an older firmware and boot back out of DFU mode again. After restoring my apps and settings in iTunes, I was back in business with a faster 3G iPhone experience running an older firmware.
Keep in mind, many of the apps you may be running now might require iOS 4.x and will be inaccessible from an older version of the OS. I take no responsibility for any lost data. Backup and then backup again…and then reconsider doing this hack.
Aug 18, 2010 @ 21:34:11
I’m still reestablishing connections, passwords and setting, but I am LOVING the return in speed and battery life. Holy crap! I forgot what it was like to just be able to type in real time!
Old is the new New!
Aug 18, 2010 @ 21:40:25
I love folders and cannot give them up now that I have them. Otherwise, I would do this to regain battery life and speed. Thanks for the tip though, pretty cool!
Aug 18, 2010 @ 21:49:06
I hear you, I miss folders too… but not as much as I missed bringing up a webpage and getting a webpage. Or having the keyboard come up and being able to actually type something before I forgot what I was going to say. I’m in love with my iPhone again!!
Aug 20, 2010 @ 03:33:37
I have not allowed my iPhone to upgrade to the v4.0. Any news on when apple will remedy this problem?