iOS 4.1 beta shows performance improvements for iPhone 3G
Comments(57) Ever since upgrading to iOS 4.0 my iPhone 3G performed like a piece of crap. I’ve seen that Apple published an iOS 4.1 beta on its iPhone developer network website and I was willing to give it a try to see if there are any performance improvements. To make it short: yes, there are. While it’s not as good as with v3.x the phone is a lot more responsive than with v4.0 or v4.0.1, without having to turn off Spotlight indexing! Let’s hope these changes make it to the 4.1 GM.
To activate iOS 4.1 beta your iPhone’s UDID needs to be registered with an Apple iPhone SDK account ($99 a year). As every account comes with 100 UDID slots for iDevices you just need to find a developer who adds your iPhone’s UDID to the beta SDK list. Some do it for free, some charge a couple of bucks to do it. I may have one or two UDID slots left in my dev account so you may want to leave a comment if you want to have your iPhone registered (please provide the UDID for the iPhone- but don’t ask me where to look it up). You also have to find the beta firmware on your own (Torrent sites may be a good place to start). Sorry, I don’t have any more UDID slots to give.
Btw. initally I tried to install iOS 4.1 beta on my iPhone 3G without a registered UDID. I used redsn0w 0.9.5b5-5, iOS 4.0, iOS 4.1 beta and iPhoneExplorer to remove the beta-tag in SystemVersion.plist. While I was able to activate my iPhone 3G that way I lost 3G/WiFi network connectivity. The problem seemed to be related to DNS. Making/taking calls, SMS worked perfectly though. This way of activating a phone most likely requires a new redsn0w version in order to work properly.
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Hi, thanks for the article. I really hope 3.1 will fix the issues on my iphone 3G. In the meantime I would want try the beta. Can you add my UDID: [deleted] ?
Thanks you!
Bart
Bart, I just added your UDID. Have fun!
Cheers,
Jan
Hi, like Bart I’d loved to try out the beta on my 3g also. Could you please add my UDID: [deleted]
Tom, your UDID is now ready to be activated with beta firmware.
Cheers,
Jan
Hey there, I would also love to try out the new beta on my 3G. Could you add my UDID as well? [deleted]
Cheers,
Fredrik
Sorry for the double-post, but to clarify, the colon is of course NOT part of the UDID.
UDID: [deleted]
Once again, cheers
Hey! If you have any slots left, can you please add my UDID?
[deleted]
/Matte
Hey man, great post and truly hoping it works. My 3G SUX on 4.0. Downgraded to 3.1.3 but now some of my apps require 4 to work so I’m kinda stuck. If you got another slot, would love to opportunity to try 4.1.
Ryan
If yes, I will post my UDID.
Matte, Fredrik: your UDIDs are active now. Ryan, sure, I still have a couple left.
Cheers,
Jan
[UDID deleted]
Yours is added as well now, Ryan.
Cheers,
Jan
Thank you Jan, much appreciated.
Hey Jan, could you add mine too?
[UDID deleted]
Thanks!
Marsel, that’s not a valid iPhone UDID.
Hi.
I’d be very happy if you added me aswell. I’m getting of my very slow 3G
Thanks
My UDID is [deleted]
Filip, yours has been added.
Cheers,
Jan
Whoops, sorry, for some reason i missed a letter. Here it is!
[UDID deleted]
Thanks!
Yours has been added, Marcel.
Cheers,
Jan
Great, thanks a ton!
Thank you very much for adding me! I still cant get it to work though, if I click on the iOS SDK beta on my log-in on developer.apple.com it says that i’m not enrolled and that I need to be in order to download the 4.1. What do I have to do to make it work?
If you want to access the SDK beta dev site you need a $99 iPhone dev account. What the registered UDID does is to automatically activate your iPhone once a beta dev-only firmware is installed. I can’t tell you where to get the software though. Maybe you should re-read my post :)
Cheers,
Jan
Thank you, Jan !
I’ve just installed iOS 4.1 beta 2 on my iPhone 3G and I must say: this works great… My iPhone is almost on the same speed as “iOS 3″: no input-lag while typing anymore!
Hello Jan,
if you have one more left, I would be happy to try it. Just can’t stand to have basically an unusable device!
UDID: [deleted] (That’s an iPod Touch, btw)
Hey, i installed the beta only to find out I need UDID. can you add mine:
[UDID deleted]