I know some people maybe running iPhone OS 1 or 2 when they upgrade, and some maybe using iPhones 2G/3G/3GS and iPod touch 2G/3G, but when Apple controls both hardware and software so tightly on this platform I do find it amazing that experiences of the upgrade vary so widely.
I had decided to upgrade my iPod touch 2G the day I saw iOS 4 was released (I'm like that!). I clicked the update button, clicked on my 'Caffeine' menu bar item to stop my Mac going to sleep and just left them both to get on with it. One or two hours later I returned and all was done and dusted and I've been using it since just fine. If I had read the experiences relayed here over the last few days I would probably have waited until 4.1 was released! How can the experience be so different - it's not as though it's the Mac with extensions, plug-ins, strange login processes, background utility applications and more running on the device being upgraded? It's definitely more sluggish than iPhone OS 3.1.3 but not consistently so. Sometimes it's just as fast as 3.1.3 and then slower when doing the same thing again. Odd. I haven't spotted any pattern yet, but I really appreciate the folders but a shame about missing even a bit of simple multitasking for a few things (not that I'd ever missed it) and changing the wallpaper. Apart from the rearrangement of Settings I haven't noticed big differences yet. I'll be better placed to know what subtleties I might find when I read the User Guide ... Cheers, Stephen On 22 Jun 2010, at 12:11, Catherine Hunt wrote: > Hi everyone - I'm currently trying to install iOS4 on my 16GB 3G iPhone. > Before I started the download, I backed up my phone, and then started the OS4 > download. Unfortunately that was last night, and nothing much has happened > since then. > > iTunes says that it is "Downloading 1 item iPhone Software Update" and the > pop-up window tells me that it is backing up my phone. Unfortunately the blue > bar is moving at what appears to be a miniscule rate, and to my eyes, doesn't > appear to have moved for several hours. (It seems to be stuck at about 10%). > > I do have lots and lots of apps, and I'm happy to wait longer, but I also > suspect that it shouldn't be taking this long. > > Any advice gratefully received. > > Best wishes > Catherine > > > Catherine Hunt > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > "The costs are such that my department is not so much the department of energy and climate change, as the department of nuclear legacy and bits of other things," - Chris Hune, June 2010 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
