As much as I love my iPhone 3G, the latest 2.1 firmware is still not the smoothest and stable yet. Apple has released a couple firmware updates so far and we have seen some improvements, but anticipation for 2.2 firmware can’t come any sooner. If you have jailbroken your iPhone, you’ve probably run into some more lag and just horrendous system speed.
The choice to jailbreak or not is entirely up to you. For myself, access to PDAnet, QIK, and some of the must have jailbroken apps is something that I enjoy. However, for some reason my iPhone 3G was at its slowest point ever and it was driving me insane. Wait times to launch apps such as the Phone, SMS, Mail, and just navigating around resulted in frustration and neverending pauses.
How to Speed up your Jailbroken iPhone 3G
Are you also experiencing laggy wait times and just general slowness? Well, here’s one simple solution to your problems. All you have to do is…
…uninstall Winterboard.
Yep, after doing some research and testing of uninstalling other apps, Winterboard is a major culprit. Sure, I love customizing my iPhone themes as much as the next person, but after uninstalling Winterboard I noticed the navigation and speed increased by 50%. So there you go, that’s my advice for the day. Uninstall Winterboard and I guarantee you’ll notice a difference in your iPhone. I would rather have a speedy iPhone instead of a laggy, customized theme installed. Let’s hope that 2.2 firmware will bring some more bug fixes our way!
Let me know if uninstalling Winterboard speeds up your iPhone 3G in the comments!
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It's called Reveal.
Reveal
Hey what theme is that shown? The one with the shack and the grass? Email me back, thanks.
The answer is two comments above you!
Its called Reveal.
Whatever dude.
[...] you recall, I previously wrote about how to speed up your jailbroken iPhone. The solution was to uninstall Winterboard. Now, for people using an iPhone 3GS like myself, I must [...]
Yes! I had no problems to give up winterboard as long as I got to keep my 5 columns.
Excellent.
Thanks!
ON the 3.1 frimware there dose not seam to be any lag or slow down of the iphone and i have new themes and im always playing around with it
OMG I never thought I'd find the solution to it! Holy crap it is so much faster now! Thanks so much!
Yes it definitely made my phone faster and more usable. Thank you!
Cheers !
use “SwapMode” found it in cydia. use it when playing games and stuff. its fast as if you have a new jailbroken device and no other app installed. you can always turn it off and you'll have your themes again.
or its the slipknot theme i think…
Which theme is that? ( from the image displayed)
i timed it. 12 seconds to press unlock button, slide to unlock, click sms, then open the first text message.
then uninstalled winterboard, and it took 7 seconds. that's a huge difference.
Uninstalling Winterboard worked like a charm! Speed is much more important than customization, the main reason for me to jailbreak/unlock was to use another carrier. Many thanks!
noooooooo!! :[
Try “bosspaper”. Claims not to lag like WB. It works well to use for just background images.
You're a moron, there are tons of ways to increase the avail. ram……don't give crappy advice
On one iPhone I was only using WinterBoard to get rid of the labels and the dock on the springboard, and on the other I wasn't even using it and deleting WinterBoard sped up both significantly
8GB iPhone 3G 3.1.2
16GB iPhone 3G 3.1.2
Jailbroken with blackra1n
Wrong. Summerboard is the old version of Winterboard from 1.x. The home screen is called the Springboard. That's why it's called “Respringing”.
I am NOT unistalling Winterboard. I added this new LaunchDaimon so I get like 80MB of RAM
I am NOT unistalling Winterboard. I added this new LaunchDaimon so I get like 80MB of RAM
If its a virtual memory mod like I'm assuming, then it will slowly fry your iphone.
dude you are talking nonsense!!!!
hi does that mean your phone is working faster with winterboard still on the iphone??
ps has it fried you iphone like Chicken588 has said
hey, quick question if i uninstall wintorboard do i still get to keep all the tweaks and apps i added to my iphone using winterboard and cydia?