I think i am going to do this as IOS5 is arse on my 3GS.
What are you seeing wrong on the 3GS? Seems fine on the Mrs' one, if anything a little snappier than iOS4.
I've found the most annoying problem is the return of the Safari "press back and you get an old cached page" bug
Simplest workaround for that is just to open threads in a new tab/page.
double post
iOS5 is great on a 4S
how do I know if I've a 4 or a 4S ?
Thanks
Should say on the back. If you have to ask then you probably have a 4.
The 4S only came out very recently and isn't available on all networks yet.
The 4s doesn't have 4s on the back. no obvious way of telling them apart.
OS5 has been great on my 4s, no issues to report.
not noticed any problems on the touch 4th generation, but mrsconsequence has moaned a little about the lag inputting text on the iphone4
Good luck in downgrading to iOS4.. took me best part of a day tinkering... worked eventually, but it's not for the fainthearted.
Turns out the handset was faulty, not iOS5 playing silly games.
iOS 5.0.1 over here, on a 3GS.
The 4s doesn't have 4s on the back. no obvious way of telling them apart.
Doesn't it? Odd. Well I guess the other way to tell is if you have a microphone button on the keyboard for activating Siri.
Only the 4S has Siri.
no obvious way of telling them apart.
The 4S has black lines on all 4 corners of the case.
Edit: See here.
Funnily enough wifi sync worked today. Maybe apple were listening 
Latest issue - typing a web address in the address bar and when I type the first letter it disappears. Oh for **** sake. 
Oh hold on its 'fine' now.
Just in case it makes anyone feel better, ios5 has been perfect on my iphone 4.
Just thought you might want to know.
I'm waiting for Countzero and his amazing lack of paragraphs...
Well, I had singular lack of success trying two other browsers. 360browser took an absolute age just opening pages I lost the will to live, Opera opened them fine, but I couldn't log on to STW, it wouldn't accept my password, and when I tried the 'forgotten password' route, it just kept going back to the login box, and I couldn't get any further.
¶ Deeply frustrating, I have the password written down, so I'm sure it's correct.
¶ I might give it another try after shutting the phone down and rebooting it, see if that works.
GrahamS - Member
I seems to have affected iPhone more in general, it has completely **** up the iPod part of the iPhone,
In what way? The Mrs' 3GS is fine with iOS5, including the iPod bit.
it's just sooo slllloooooooowwwww.
Tap a soft button (like to go back to playlists for example, not a fancy button press like "genius", I mean just navigating about the iPod) and there is the most interminable lag, and occasionally just locks up. Hugely frustrating.
I also hate the new look of the iPad iPod app. It looks, frankly, shite. And again is also monumentally slow and unresponsive now.
Kev
I did try 360Browser, which wasn't good, so gave Opera a try. Looked good at first, quite fast, and no type lag, but there were other, more significant issues.
Typing into the text box won't allow you to scroll down to access the modifiers for italic, bold, video, etc, which is irritating, but even worse, once you enter a thread, Opera won't let you out, tapping the Chat button just takes you back into the thread you're already in. To get out you have to go into Forums then select Chat.
Bloody pain. Sticking with Safari, the lag seems to go away after awhile, but all other functions work fine.
This on an iP4, btw.
it's just sooo slllloooooooowwwww.Tap a soft button (like to go back to playlists for example, not a fancy button press like "genius", I mean just navigating about the iPod) and there is the most interminable lag, and occasionally just locks up. Hugely frustrating.
Just asked the missus and she's not seen any of that. I just had a little play and it seems fine: tapping on the soft button to switch between Playlists, Artists, Songs and Albums is instantaneous. (3GS with iOS 5 with 134 albums / 1600 songs).
I suggest a trip to the Genius Bar.
The fact your iPad is also slow, presumably with the same song library, might maybe suggest something is screwed up in your iTunes library (dodgy metadata or something?)
i have found it very laggy on my ipod touch 4th gen. pressing icons to open apps is delayed, safari crashes a lot as do various other apps intermittently.
however, imessage is brilliant.
Installed the ios5 bug fix patch last night, so far so good...
pressing icons to open apps is delayed, safari crashes a lot as do various other apps intermittently.
Do you ever shut down all the background apps? Unless there is a buggy one then they usually don't take up much memory, but IIRC the Touch is already quite low on RAM.
i do shut them down - the apple data feedback thingy does show lots of low memory warnings though.
The frustrating thing is that i am doing nothing different to before the 'upgrade' and it operates slower.
Seems to be the way with apple at the mo if hardware is not brand new. I am hanging off a Lion install for similar reasons.
Interweb slows to a halt on my iPad 2. Very frustrating and disappointing.
I'm loving the iPad and considering an iMac next but for all I like about the kit, it always seems that the software is not quite right (Losing apps on updates, updates which make things worse, iTunes can be a real pain in the arse).
Why can't I play my videos through iTunes?
I do want to get away from windows but wonder if the mac will piss me off just as much?
Siri is shite. the only thing the 4s has over the 4 is the 64gb
Siri is shite. the only thing the 4s has over the 4 is the 64gb
And the significantly better camera of course.
I do want to get away from windows but wonder if the mac will piss me off just as much?
Yes, if not more. I had no issues with Windows but I was so thoroughly impressed with my iPhone and the quality of the iMac hardware that I took the leap to an iMac. Sure, there are plenty of positive things about it but because my expectations were so high I got very annoyed when things didn't work as they should (or how I expected). It looks great on my desk but I do sometimes wish I'd saved the money and got another Windows PC. They don't "just work" any more than a Windows PC.
IOS 5 is fine on my iP4. I did have the laggy text thing but that's improved a bit in 5.1. It's only STW where I get this though.
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