Has anyone had experience installing iOS 5.* on an iPhone 3GS?

Question

iPhone

Hello,

Now iOS 4.3.2 is installed, is it worth upgrading to version 5? In particular, I am interested in the speed of work, whether there will be brakes (now 4.3.2 sometimes slows down, somewhere I met an article that the iPhone 3GS on iOS 5 will work faster than on iOS 4, because it is more optimized).

Has anyone had experience installing iOS 5.* on an iPhone 3GS? What are your impressions regarding iOS 4.*?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

iPhone 3Gs 32GB passed through all software versions in sequence. In my opinion, iOS 5.1.1 is the best thing ever. Works great, never had a Jail. Recommend!

Answer 2

Works more cheerfully and the battery behaves better. I'm talking about new features in general. Definitely set.

Answer 3

On 4ke was a very short time, almost immediately updated. As for me, everything works very well, sometimes the truth slows down, but tolerable. In general, it is more likely to bet than not to bet.

Answer 4

I put it on the phone, I use the 3gs phone to develop applications, I can’t evaluate how the battery is there, but according to my impressions, I didn’t see any glitches quickly and smoothly.

Answer 5

There is experience. After updating from 4 * to 5.0.1 with jail, I began to slow down noticeably more often. Plus, from Ubuntu it is now impossible to synchronize music with a standard player.

Answer 6

I doubt that an iPhone that is released on 3.x will adequately work on 5.x, no matter what they write there. I personally wouldn't. Once I already upgraded 3G to 4.x, because “somewhere I met an article about performance”, then I regretted it very much and vowed to upgrade to major ones.

Answer 7

It works fine on the latest version, I always update right away, the jail was only on the phone at 4.x, but then demolished as unnecessary.
I had small sticking on all firmware - for example, when the player plays, the phone unlocks with a small lag (less than a second).
Sometimes programs crash, I also saw this on the pad, they say on the pads this is not due to the firmware, but to defects in the memory chips. Maybe they're lying, duh. But on 5.1 there are already much fewer falls, almost none. More precisely, even so, the program may fall - it was 5.1 a couple of times, but without restarting the device. I had about five such failed restarts on 5.0 (on the pad, the phone on 5.0 passed).
The phone on 5.0 and above supports Wi-Fi sync, but in a month or how many there are already 5k, it picked up bugs and the sync began to fall. Reset this weekend and so far left only a wired sync. The pad hangs strictly on Wi-Fi and there were no problems (but it is always on one, home, point, but the phone is not, maybe that's the point).
Performance, battery - after upgrading from 4k to 5k, it didn’t change at all, I didn’t measure it on purpose. Jail is not.
Verdict - put. Childhood diseases, as far as I can see, no longer exist.

Answer 8

I'll do my part.
I put 5.1 on my 3gs. Impressions:
The battery definitely lasts longer, gps is not buggy (I have firmware 06.15.00 from iPad).
But I still can’t figure out the performance ... Basically faster than 4.x, but sometimes wild brakes appear for no reason I understand. Moreover, the brakes are even on such applications as a standard notepad, iPod (music) and settings. This was definitely not the case before. And this is a significant disadvantage for me.

Answer 9

I put 5.1 on 3Gs. I didn’t notice a big difference in performance, the battery holds a little better, glitches in some applications disappeared (for example, bookmarks in Safari stopped popping up automatically when the browser was opened). But in general, there are no huge advantages.
The main, in my opinion, plus of new firmware is the ability to install applications that are compatible only with these or later firmware. For example, it was not possible to install Skype on the second phone due to the old firmware (I won’t risk updating it a second time - I barely unlocked it last time).