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[Shadrack]

It feels snappier on my iPhone 4 for sure. Everything is opening faster and performing better. Lol, i thought it was a placebo but I'm pretty sure it is more optimized than 5.0.1 was, based on my experience.

I'm also very much enjoying Genius Mixing again now that it has been added to iTunes Match. Also, album art is displaying more consistently since the update.

Solid update

Edit: for the record, I thought that both the v4 and v5 updates were progressively worse in terms of overall "snappiness."

[myxomatosis]

Anyway, I've always had the feeling that my old 3GS was "snappier" than my old iPhone 4 (not 4S). Probably because of the ressources needed for the Retina Display.


As I said, didn't notice difference between my 4S (5.0.1 jailbroken) and my gf's 4S (5.1)

[UndergroundWire]

Well I upgraded my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and I see rainbows and unicorns. SWEET!

[+cooky560]

It seems about the same to me, I'm not sure about the camera appearing without me double tapping the home button on the lock screen, seems more likely to happen by accident now

[+Spirit Dave]

It's not placebo ... it's true. My iPhone IS quicker. And why? Because on iOS 5 I was having juddery and slow access to some apps and sometimes it'd hang for a few seconds. Nothing hangs now. Everything is as instant as I'd expect on the iPhone 4. It's 100% true that it's faster. Bugs have obviously been ironed out. In my opinion, this is far bigger an upgrade than people would think. Lack of new features matters not. It's all about the performance of the phone.

[saxondale.]

cooky560, on 09 March 2012 - 08:15, said:

It seems about the same to me, I'm not sure about the camera appearing without me double tapping the home button on the lock screen, seems more likely to happen by accident now

unlocking and starting the camera app requires swiping in different directions, how can you even do this by accident

[Denis W]

Regarding standby battery use, got through a day with 1 hour 54 minutes of usage, 13 hours 26 minutes of standby, and the battery meter was at 78%. Compared to before, that's not bad.

[]SK[]

No different on my 4S.

[+cooky560]

saxondale., on 09 March 2012 - 08:39, said:

unlocking and starting the camera app requires swiping in different directions, how can you even do this by accident

Well my coat has done it twice so far, I've taken it out the pocket to find the camera open

[Pygmy_Hippo]

Don't wish to tempt fate, but the continual crashing I had in Safari and a few other apps has stopped since the new update, hopefully it'll stay like this - I'M FREE TO LOVE MY iPAD AGAIN!!

[+sanke1]

It feels exactly the same on my 4S. All the bugs like SMS sound stutter, sudden and random battery drainage are still present.

I did a fresh install of 5.1 and set the phone as new just to be sure.

**** poor job by Apple.

[Shadrack]

sanke1, on 09 March 2012 - 12:24, said:

It feels exactly the same on my 4S. All the bugs like SMS sound stutter, sudden and random battery drainage are still present.

I did a fresh install of 5.1 and set the phone as new just to be sure.

**** poor job by Apple.

Sounds like you may have defective hardware. Take it to an Apple Store. They will probably replace it for you.

[PyX]

My battery on my 3GS has become ineffective. At the end of a day, I can be at around 15-20% if I had it fully charged in the morning. What’s that ?

[(Spork)]

Eins.MY, on 08 March 2012 - 01:35, said:

My jailbroken iPhone 4 is a lot snappier and faster than stock iOS 5.0.1

How about battery life after you upgraded to 5.1? getting better?

wait what there is a jailbreak for the 5.1 ?

[Xenomorph]

Maybe it feels faster because your phone was rebooted. My iOS devices can have uptimes in the area of several weeks/months.

(Spork), on 09 March 2012 - 16:10, said:

wait what there is a jailbreak for the 5.1 ?

iOS 5.1 jailbreak (tethered) came out a few hours after iOS 5.1 was released. Pre A5 devices have hardware exploits that allow this sort of thing almost instantly.