My iPhone 3GS was more reliable than my iPhone 4

Life Technology
1

The iphone 4 is faster, the screen resolution is far superior, the camera is also much better and the gyroscope makes a good difference when using Maps or other GPS applications. Other than that it’s the same since I don’t use Facetime. The 3GS doesn’t have these things but overall, my experience with it was better until I bricked it, but that was my fault, not the phone’s fault.

Issues I have had with the 3GS: None. Everything worked and kept working.

Issues I have with the iPhone4:

1-The mail app is stuck in 12/02/11. It reads as follows: Updated 12/02/11 1:00 AM

If I tap the fetch/refresh icon(little circle arrow), it then shows the proper time and date of when I updated but if I exit the application and open it again, it’s immediately back to 12/02/11. The mail app itself works fine but it’s an annoyance to never know when I updated my mailboxes last.

2- The call app freezes when I end a call. Not always, but often. If I get a phone call when the phone is in sleep mode, upon ending the call, the phone automatically goes back to sleep mode, which is normal, but when I go back to the call app, it’s frozen on the “call ended” screen. The only way to fix this is to respring the phone. Thankfully, it is jailbroken and I have sbsettings installed so I’m two taps away from respringing it and it only takes about 4 seconds to respring. If the phone was not jailbroken, the only option would be to shut down the phone and turn it back on. That’s a real pain.

3- The reception is much better on the 3GS. This is actually an issue because the 3Gs works in B1 in my house, but the iphone 4 falls out of range so I can’t make or receive calls when I’m in the basement (most of the time). If I’m expecting a call, I have to leave the phone upstairs and then go to the basement.

All in all, it’s not that bad, but my experience with the 3GS was simply smoother. I would recommend waiting for the next generation iPhone if you are in the market for an iPhone or save yourself a bunch of money and get a 3GS instead. :2cents:

2

Your first two issues are OS and software based and probably has nothing to so with iPhone 4 vs 3GS. That said, your reception does.

What OS and jailbreak are you running? Everything is AOK on mine with on 4.3.1 jail broken with Redsnow.

3

I’m running 4.1 jailbroken with Limerain. I could restore, and jailbreak again but my phone is heavily reprogrammed and I’m not motivated to re-install everything. I’m waiting for a more significant bug that will force me to do it. Or maybe I’ll get bored on a rainy weekend and decide it’s time.

4

I restored it last weekend and I used RedSnow to jailbreak it. I had no problems with the jailbreak and so far I have not had the issues I mentioned above all week. :slight_smile: I might be imagining this, but I think my battery life is also improved. The reception problem remains.

5

Newer generation is worse? This MIGHT be a surprise to an Apple user, but its pretty much a general rule with Microsoft and a lot of other IT.

I think, with luck, it generally goes (a) Innovate > (b) perfect >© add superfluous crap and complexity for marketing purposes > (d) repeat ©

With Microsoft I suppose you could often replace (a) and (b) with “steal”