Apple iOS4 is now Live!

iOS 4 is now live -- soon at iTunes

Download links included. Should be appearing shortly in iTunes.

 

Downloading right now! 10 minutes left according to iTunes, bet it takes much longer than that with everyone and their brother on the system.

Edit: Nope finished on time.

 

I've been running it for over a week now and love it! Can hardly wait until the iPhone 4 is available in Canada!

 

I'm just waiting for my itunes to sync now.

 

jailbreak out yet? no?

then I'll wait.

 

Unofficial (yet completely working) jailbreak has been out since the GM was released.

 

like I said...downloading now.

 

i am waiting for the unlock to be released , i am not on official provider

 

jailbroken and unlocked on 3G. (only available for 3G right now).

all is well. multitasking and background wallpapers all enabled. tethering with PDANet. win win win.

 

No home screen background setting for iPhone 3G On the upside, my phone didn't slow to a crawl Folders look pretty useful. Now I'm wondering if I should pick up iPhone 4 on Thur...

 

When this is available for the iPad, this is going to make the iPad, win.

And the iPad is pretty awesome now.

 

iOS4 jailbreak and multitasking now available for iPhone 3G | Pixelated Geek

Near the end of the article is how to enable multi-tasking on the iPhone 3G by editing one of the Springboard.app .plist files.

 

i have home screen backgrounds, tethering, and multitasking on my 3G. go figure.

 

So I make a backup before I install. Install the OS and do a restore. All my contacts and pics and txt messages were all restored but none of my apps? !

 

I hate you I realized I have no multitasking too. STEVE!!!!!!!!!

 

It's not real multitasking anyway so I wouldn't beat myself over it too much.

 

What is real?

There is no spoon!

 

jailbreak and get your multitasking.


anyway...man. 3G is showing its age. animations chug.

 

guess i gotta get some app updates someday... (when they are available)

mot of the stuff I keep running doesn't support multitasking.. so every time i multitask out of many things it just starts over like i just launched it... some things work though. Kinda lame for the multitasking to require the app to be made for it.

 

What is real mutlitasking? Why do you need a app completely running in the back ground when you can't use it? Would you like it to kill the battery? (Hello Evo) Apple has done multitasking they way it should be done on a mobile device. Apple has given the dev's the tools to make multitasking work, now it's up to them.

 

The iPhone Multitasking concept is the epitome of the company slogan "Think Different" because it's an entirely new way to look at multitasking on mobile devices.

This is exactly the question to ask! As long as the required functionality of the app (which is different for each app) is running in the background, you don't need the entire program running.

 

So now I am forced to multitask everything, unless I close the app by pressing the home button, then click the home button twice to enter the multitasking pane, an dthen close the app 'for good' from there??

Maybe I dont want to multitask every app that I open??

Is there a way to quit the app completely the first time round? If not, how about a button which closes all apps in one go, rather then having to do each one manually!

 

yeah I noticed this too... its supposed to take care of it for you... no idea how... I have to manually close everything I run.

You don't have to do it from the home screen though, you can double click Home in any app and see and close the running apps.

 

The way iOS4 handles multitasking is simply to pause the active app and then switch to another app. App's would have to be updated to support doing the limited things Apple allows while in the background, which include downloading stuff from the internet, and playing audio. So basically, if you have an app that does photo editing, and it takes 2 minutes to do a render, you can't switch to another app while it renders. The app goes to sleep. That's not multitasking. That's task management.

 

the app can render in the background... if the app is made to.

 

I jailbroke my 3Gs to iOS4 this morning after work. I'm mixed on liking it or not though.

 

Not really. Apple limits the tasks that can be accomplished in the background to these items:

• GPS Location Updates
• Audio
• Downloading
• Push notifications

So an application can't really be made to do long running tasks other than those specific to the above. I do understand the "why" on Apple's approach to handling multitasking though. Some are expecting smart-phones to handle everything, and in essence eventually they will be powerful enough to do anything and everything. Apple is limiting it to keep performance up on today's level of hardware on the iPhone.

On the Android front though, the hardware in those phones is rapidly advancing and so is capable of performing a more truer form of multitasking. For the iPad though, I hope Apple unshackles the multitasking on it as it definitely has the power to handle it.

Edit: Source of my info is here.

 

My phone lasted all of 5 hours today. I hope my next try will be better....

I wasn't even using it for heavy activity, 3 of those hours were at work (sent 8 text messages on break, checked my funds in my bank account via the Chase app, and browsed craigslist in Safari over my 12 minute break). No phone calls, no games, no audio, no video.... just very minimal basic use.

If today/tomorrow (I work swing/grave shift, so my concept of days is screwed up) doesn't prove to last long either, I'm downgrading back to 3.1.2.

 

How does one go about downgrading to an earlier version? Is your phone jail-broken?

 

did any one tried the unlocking on the 3.1.3 ??, i don'y want to update to 4 as i heard there are still problems to be fixed, i ll jailbreak the 3.1.3 anyway so i ll have multitasking , my phone was bricked 2month ago ( can't make calls cause i updated to 3.1.3 )