Slow iPhone 3G with IOS 4? turn off spotlight

SilverPenguin

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I posted this in the 3G thread but thought I'd give it it's own thread to make it more obvious, and it has made a difference to someones 3G experience already in that thread.

It's been mentioned in a few forums: If you turn off spotlight search on your IOS 4 powered iPhone 3G it will help speed up the overall response of the phone.

Settings - general - home button - spotlight, then uncheck everything.


Hope it helps some of you :)
 
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and either multi tasking or background image
also
deleting language packs, leaving only english and emoji packs will make it run like a rocket again. dont this last night to the wifes 3G, and its like it was on day she got it.
I highly reccoment spotlight off, background wallpaper off and delete language packs.
if anyone needs infos on how to delete language packs i will happily post the info
 
You can't multitask or set a background image on a 3G with iOS4?
And I can't see where to turn off Spotlight either :confused:
 
Thanks for sharing, this was the first thing I did when flashing my dads phone to iOS4 last week, seems to have worked. I also immediately performed 2 'hard' resets for good measure.
 
Just done it on the misses 3g and it does seem faster, it took 4 seconds to load her texts instead of 12, lol
 
Blackhawk47 said:
No wonder I couldn't find it.

Settings - general - home button - spotlight, then uncheck everything.

Don't think I have ever used Spotlight on my iPhone - now lets see if its any faster.

;)
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Oh that's odd, on the iPhone 4 there is no 'home button' step in the menu navigation, so I assumed IOS4 would be IOS4 regardless of the device :confused:

Sorry all :)
 
Still freezes and keyboard is slow as hell. You type it makes the noise. Then you have to wait 20+ seconds (no exaggeration) until it displays
 
SilverPenguin said:
Oh that's odd, on the iPhone 4 there is no 'home button' step in the menu navigation, so I assumed IOS4 would be IOS4 regardless of the device :confused:

Sorry all :)
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If you go into Settings there is a Spotlight Search under the "General" settings, below the "Location Services" setting tab. In there you can "untick" the Spotlight Search for each individual option ( mail, ipod, messages etc ).

I assume that turns it all off and does the same thing as the OP suggested?.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Still freezes and keyboard is slow as hell. You type it makes the noise. Then you have to wait 20+ seconds (no exaggeration) until it displays
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Well thats clearly wrong.

Mates 3G is NOTHING like that and he has multitasking enabled...

I've disabled spotlight on my 3GS too, might delete those localisation's etc too.
 
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