iPhone Woes & a Busy Month

I own an iPhone 3G. It is sadly locked to a carrier in Canada, so needs to be jailbroken and unlocked in order to work with a UK sim. It’s kind of a pain, but since iPhones are so freaking mainstream, it hasn’t been too hard, and everything has been working pretty well.

That is, until ios4 came out. OH. MY. GOD. Slowed my phone down to a crawl, apps crashed regularly, phone actually needed to be reset TWICE in one day (and prior to ios4, I could probably count on one hand how many times I had to do it in the entire time I’ve had it – > 1 year). Mike spent a good portion of yesterday evening trying to roll it back to ios3, but the evil overlords at apple have made that pretty much impossible. I ended up reinstalling and then jailbreaking ios4 again, only this time with no multitasking enabled. I used the instructions and tools found here, if anyone else is having the same problem. Fingers crossed – it’s been pretty well behaved so far today. It’s definitely slower than it was on ios3, but at least my apps aren’t crashing, and it only takes 10-15 seconds to open SMS, instead of the 30+ seconds it was taking with multi-tasking enabled. I am hoping it can hold out and not be a useless piece of crap until November. We’re going to Vegas then, and iPhone 4s are SO much cheaper in the States than they are in the UK. Like the equivilant of $200 Canadian dollars. The plan is to pick one up in the States, so I am crossing my fingers that my trusty little 3G can play nice til then.

This month is going to be CRAZY BUSY. This weekend we are trying to get a crew together to go check out The Great British Beer Festival during the day on Saturday, then come back to ours for a BBQ and more… beer sampling.. for the rest of the evening. This Sunday there is nothing official planned, but I think I am going to do my best to convince Mike that we should go see Inception. Next weekend, we both took the Friday off, and we’re headed to a cottage in Scotland for our anniversary (Mike asked me out on a Friday the 13th, so we celebrate Friday the 13ths rather than the actual year anniversary). Tonight or tomorrow night we need to call Mike’s grandparents and see if they are interested in having some weekend visitors for the 21-22, and if they are, we are trying to arrange Mountain Biking in Wales for that weekend. And then on Wednesday the 25th, my mom lands here for a week of sight-seeing. I took off the days when she is here and we are going to SEE STUFF and HAVE FUN and DRINK WINE! It’s gonna be rad.