How to optimize Windows NT 4.0 on Windows 95 hardware (iOS 4.1 on 3G device

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I got to thinking how much this reminded me of “back in the day”, when Microsoft released NT 4.0, saying most 95 hardware would run it. You have to do some data cleaning when making that jump. You can't leave it to the OS and hardware.
After doing these steps, my 3G has been running just as good as 3.x, if not faster.
1. Sync your phone, then rightclick on it and Backup...
2. Sync your photos off the phone. Photos are probably the most important data on these things, so make sure you have them offloaded somewhere. Then DELETE photos from phone when done.
3. Back in iTunes, click on your iPhone and click the apps tab
a. Uncheck all your apps - but before you do, make sure you are OK with losing the data associated with those apps. On level 18 of that favorite game? It will be lost if you uncheck it. Have Facebook account stored? You will have to enter it again. Have notes or a grocery list....move them somewhere else. What we are trying to accomplish is lacing up the shoes one hole at a time. Then Apply and Sync
4. On the phone, Settings > General
a. Keyboard, everything to off (learn how to grammar)
5. On the phone, Settings > Mail, Contacts and Calendars
b. I went in and turned off mail for each account. The accounts I use, I can sync back the email afterwards. You might have accounts that can’t do this, so don’t turn off accounts that are not hosted somewhere else. I also turned off Calendar syncing for each account, which deletes that data as well. If you don’t have syncing between a remote calendar and that account, DO NOT PERFORM this step. You will lose your entries. I use Exchange syncing and MobileMe, so both are synced, and I was comfortable deleting that data.
I also turned off organize by thread. I don’t like that new feature and it just adds overhead when the email comes in. Every spared CPU cycle is needed now. Calendars are only synced back 2 weeks for me. Stop living in the past!
6. On the phone, Settings > Safari
a. Clear History, Cookies and Cache
7. On the phone, Settings > Brightness
b. Turn off auto-brightness
8. Sync, then Backup...
9. In iTunes, click on music and movies and uncheck syncing them. If you have any Rentals, move them back to the computer, and off the iPhone first.
10. Apply, then Sync
11. Same with Photos and Shows
12. Rightclick and Backup...
13. In iTunes, rearrange your icons so that they are all on the same screen. There should only be one screen now with the default apps, because you unsynced all your purchased apps earlier. To make sure there are no apps, just hold down an icon, and look for the ones with an “X” in the corner.
Apply, sync and Backup...this last backup is important. It should be the smallest it can be, so that you are only going to overlay configurations, not apps, data, music, movies, notes...etc. You are going to sync that stuff, instead of restore it.
Your phone should be bare bones now, without your personal data bloating it through 3-4 OS upgrades. Let’s restore to defaults, then add your configuration and data back on it.
Follow this on how to restore:
http://www.tipb.com/2009/01/29/iphone-101-put-iphone-recovery-mode/
Restore to the iPhone Backup without a date on it. That was the last one you took.
The restore portion will take about 20 minutes. The backup overlay, should take 3 minutes.
Once it’s finished rebooting, add your most essential apps first and sync. Configure your email accounts to sync mail and calendars, but choose the smallest amount of time available to sync. Then configure your apps, sync your photos, and some music.
Before, I had 30+ apps, no music, no videos, and only 350mb taken up on the phone. I couldn’t even take a **** picture without getting frustrated, even with 4.1. I had restored, and done everything else. I got so frustrated, I decided to do all these steps, and see what the result would be.
To test, I played a song in iPod mode, then while still playing texted, opened up Maps, refreshed my location, searched for FedEx locations across the US-wide (zoomed in and out), took 3 pictures, then rotated and zoomed....all why having the song playing on the speakers.
It was snappy, responsive, and was BETTER than 3.x
So, if anyone brave enough to “reset” their life, give it a try. The key thing here, is SYNC your data, don't restore if from a backup. I'm not sure what I'll do over time, but I only have to last until December, then I'll be switching anyways.
DISCLAIMER: I make no warranties as to your experience. If you don’t backup your data, don’t blame me for deleting it.

Answer 1

I recently tried installing Windows NT 4.0 on my iMac G3. It does NOT install. I did some more research and discovered that Windows NT 4.0 requires an IBM PowerPC computer and is not really designed to work on Apple hardware. So, IBM computers with PowerPC processors are likely supported, whereas Apple computers with PowerPC processors are probably not supported.