Most useful post for the day/week: downgrading your iPhone
Yeah, so the new iOS 4 brought my iPhone 3G to a crawl. Turns out, more than a few other people out there have been having the same problems. The unified Inbox and folders for my apps are really not worth the extreme slowness that I’ve been seeing, so it was on to try and find a way to restore my iPhone to 3.1.3, or the latest version of iPhone OS before iOS showed up.
Turns out, just as I was sitting down to really dig into how to do this Lifehacker posts up the exact process.
A word of warning: I attempted this on a Windows 7 machine and couldn’t get RecBoot to work. Luckily, I was able to download the Intel Mac version of it and kick my iPhone out of recovery mode using the Mac version of RecBoot. My phone was then seen as a new phone, I chose to restore from a backup I’d made back in April, and finally sync’d it up with iTunes (making sure to opt out of the iOS4 upgrade again!).
Way to go, guys! :thumbsup:
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