It was reported earlier this week that Apple's begun actively investigating the performance issues that Neowin.net is reporting that disabling Spotlight Search on the iPhone 3G remedies the sluggishness issues. It should be noted that the iPhone 3G's CPU is significantly slower than that on the iPhone 3GS, much less the iPhone 4. It appears that despite the fact that the iPhone 3G version of iOS 4 does not contain certain features of the new OS (like multitasking) it may still be pushing the two-year-old device to its limits.
To disable Spotlight Search, the suggestion is to go to "Settings -> General -> Home Button -> Spotlight Search" and to deselect every option. This will halt background indexing on the iPhone 3G.
However, reports are already emerging that the "fix" only seems to work for a day or so. Hopefully Apple will come up with a proper solution, soon.
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Luckily the upgrade won't install on my 3G. I waited 6 hours for it to install and it got nowhere. Then I read what it does and how it basically trashes the phone and there's no way to revert to the prior version. This was known by Apple prior to the release and was deliberate to force users to upgrade their phones. Many Apps will not work unless OS4.0 is installed.
Let me downgrade back to an earlier software apple. I'm fed up with Jobs. This is a deliberate attempt to frustrate the consumer into purchasing an iphone 4. Basically they are trying to say they did not test the software out on the 3G before their released it. I'm calling BS on that. Jobs will continue to insult the intelligence of his meal-tickets. Unfortunately he has backed me into the corner, I have to go upgrade to the 4 tomorrow, I can't handle being laughed at.
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