IOS 4 broken on 3GS - Summary of issues noted so far.

Question

Hi;
Some of these items duplicate items others have posted, but I'll go into what I can see in detail. Everything below relates to iOS 4.
- Battery Life.
* Does not appear to be impacted by iOS 4 -- there's a software issue with this iOS release that I see. iOS continues "rapid charging" the 3GS battery and never gives it a full charge. The result is a phone that says 100% when charged, but rapidly drops to approx 65% where the battery appears to stabilize.
- Wake up
* iOS 4 has significant issues waking up when the home button is pressed. It may wake and sleep the phone again almost instantly. Sometimes it takes over a minute to wake the phone.
- Touch screen. On wake -or even when in use- the touch screen can be unresponsive to any input.
- Touch screen during input. Screen may take forever to respond to any input eg: text typing in Notes or Mail.
- Improper mail handling. Using GMail, a "reply" to a mail can result in a frozen handset. Using the home button to escape this freeze works, but now my gmail inbox has a piece of zero-byte mail. No sender, subject or content, dated 1969 (Unix - the epoch). This mail does not appear on a computer running gmail nor can it be removed from the gmail screen on the iPhone.
- Significant load time problems. Applications (if they respond) can take two to three times the amount of time to load.
- Multitasking issues -- on examination of running processes, many uneccessary items are there. Just because calculator can multitask, does not mean it needs to chew memory when I haven't even opened it once with iOS 4. Other apps running (and using CPU cycles) include iPod, Calendar, Maps, Voicememos, Safari, etc. Please Apple, I'll launch these Apps when I need them. The App, System Activity Monitor, is not able to kill these apps or free memory under iOS 4.
- No process "kill" capability to free resources on the phone.
- Delayed display of caller-id data on incoming phone calls. I assume the remote caller is getting multiple rings as when the display / caller-id is finally on I often only get 1-2 rings before the iPhone sleeps again.
* I have to say this is the shoddiest software release I've seen from Apple. It really represents a bunch of geeks trying to introduce too many features with total disregard for quality.
Apple needs to seriously knuckle down and fix this.
my .02c
-Drew.

Answer 1

I had to reboot my 3GS a few times to get all the Aps to work properly. Furthermore, I went to the Aps store to make sure I have all the latest and greatest updates. Finally, if you double click on your home button, then you will see all your apps running in the background (at the bottom of the screen). Just press down on one of the Apps, and a little red minus button will come up. Close all of the Aps you are not using. This will preserve your battery life. They will run again when you relaunch them. Keep in mind any time you open up an App it is running in the background. So you may have a whole lot of these programs that are eating up your battery life right now. When you close them this does not mean you will prevent you from receive push messages, etc. You will still get text, messages from ESPN for instance, etc..
I hope this helps you out.