iPhone 4 very slow

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Hi there,
Over the last few weeks my iPhone 4 has slowed right down in everyday usage, opening a message or an app and there is a delay of a few seconds and its almost as bad as my mum's 3G now. I have cleared a few GB's worth of memory as well as ending all apps by double tapping the home button and turning the phone off (have done this several times now) Wondered if you people know what I can do to make my phone fast again? :)
 
Other than a fresh restore I can't think of anything. You seem to have done all the right things and your issues persist which is odd.

My iPhone4 has been doing the same thing recently but it is heavily jailbroken and I haven't checked how many mobile substrates I am running in the background for ages. Yesterday it took me about 10 home button presses just to exit the camera.app. It was like the phone was busy doing something when it shouldn't have been.
 
When you say double tapping the home button to switch off, did you get the swipe to switch off message? Shutdown is normally long press on the power button, then swipe.
 
Try a full reboot by holding both buttons down, when the 'slide to power off' thing pops up, ignore it and keep holding the buttons in, a few seconds later you should see the Apple logo, release the buttons. Its rebooting.

FYI: Double clicking the front button and closing apps in there wouldn't have or doesn't make any difference with slow phones.
 
tribz said:
When you say double tapping the home button to switch off, did you get the swipe to switch off message? Shutdown is normally long press on the power button, then swipe.
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Sorry I worded that badly, I meant to say that I ended all apps by double tapping the home button and then switched off the phone with the power button :)
 
Try the hard reset first (holding both home and sleep button into you see the apple logo come up)

Failing that try a fresh restore via iTunes.
 
Mine was also performing extremely badly recently, but like Kainz it was quite haevily jailbroken. It could take up to 10 seconds to load a message conversation and the camera app often took around the same amount of time to open.

I've now performed a DFU recovery, restored from my iCloud backup and re-jailbroken and installed just the most basic of jailbreak tweaks and it's now running sweet as a nut.
 
A cynical person might suggest Apple set a date in iOS that two years after release the CPU powers down to 50% to encourage you to upgrade...
 
PaulyD said:
Try the hard reset first (holding both home and sleep button into you see the apple logo come up)
Did so, seemed to make it better.
Failing that try a fresh restore via iTunes.
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Did so, seemed to make it better, going to try a restore shortly
Morfik said:
A cynical person might suggest Apple set a date in iOS that two years after release the CPU powers down to 50% to encourage you to upgrade...
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I did cynically wonder whether this could be the case you know..

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Been having big problems with phone today, music player would not work, would play a song for 2 seconds then stop and the volume controls would vanish and the music player buttons would not respond when touched. Then turned phone off and turned it back on, it froze whilst restarting and I had to hard reset it to get it back to life. Is my phone slowly coming to its death :( ?
Gonna try a restore as that's the last option now.
 
Mine has been going really slow recently too, it is jailbroken but today, it just, well apps are crashing all over the place
 
Morfik said:
A cynical person might suggest Apple set a date in iOS that two years after release the CPU powers down to 50% to encourage you to upgrade...
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I used to actually believe that to some extent :p Having seen my old iPhone 3G crippled by iOS4, my iPad crippled by iOS5 and now my iPhone4 feeling sluggish...

Then again I am running a heavily JB'd phone at the moment as said :)
 
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