How to Speed up your Jailbroken iPhone 3G

By Gary Ng on November 7th, 2008 176

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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  • http://www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary

    Told ya! ;)

  • http://www.iphoneincanada.ca iPhone Fan

    Told ya! ;)

  • pegasus

    My iPhone keep crashing (return to home screen) until I see this article! Now my iPhone really speed up and less crash!

    Thx and hope dev. Of winterboard will address this issue soon!

  • pegasus

    My iPhone keep crashing (return to home screen) until I see this article! Now my iPhone really speed up and less crash!

    Thx and hope dev. Of winterboard will address this issue soon!

  • leopod

    wow it works like a charm thanks!
    i wasn’t even customizing anymore…just had it for the sake of it, or in case a montreal canadien theme would come out.

    Actually, springboard would occasionally go into ‘wiggle’ mode even after a short touch tap…uninstalling winterboard seemed to have solved this issue as well

  • leopod

    wow it works like a charm thanks!
    i wasn’t even customizing anymore…just had it for the sake of it, or in case a montreal canadien theme would come out.

    Actually, springboard would occasionally go into ‘wiggle’ mode even after a short touch tap…uninstalling winterboard seemed to have solved this issue as well

  • http://www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary

    You’re welcome guys. Let’s hope this gets addressed soon because I miss customizing the themes on my iPhone already!

  • http://www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary

    You’re welcome guys. Let’s hope this gets addressed soon because I miss customizing the themes on my iPhone already!

  • http://www.iphoneincanada.ca iPhone Fan

    You’re welcome guys. Let’s hope this gets addressed soon because I miss customizing the themes on my iPhone already!

  • Bert Friction

    I just want to know what springboard theme is the one in the photo D:
    I love and want it, regardless of the lagging. :P

  • Bert Friction

    I just want to know what springboard theme is the one in the photo D:
    I love and want it, regardless of the lagging. :P

  • Tim

    Uninstalling WB is exactly what I did to speed up my phone! It made a huge difference. Loading SMS is still terribly slow, and I still only have 160MB of 500MB free of memory…any other ideas other than BossTools?

  • Tim

    Uninstalling WB is exactly what I did to speed up my phone! It made a huge difference. Loading SMS is still terribly slow, and I still only have 160MB of 500MB free of memory…any other ideas other than BossTools?

  • Adam

    Thanks for saving me the troubleshooting. Wasn’t even using winterboard anyway since I have to provide a lot of “clean” screenshots :)

  • Adam

    Thanks for saving me the troubleshooting. Wasn’t even using winterboard anyway since I have to provide a lot of “clean” screenshots :)

  • Adam

    Thanks for saving me the troubleshooting. Wasn’t even using winterboard anyway since I have to provide a lot of “clean” screenshots :)

  • andrew

    :( . You guys are right. I was afraid it was winterboard and got rid of it and walla. Things are ten times faster. Too bad cuz I honestly only really use the jailbreak for that program but the slow speeds are too much

  • andrew

    :( . You guys are right. I was afraid it was winterboard and got rid of it and walla. Things are ten times faster. Too bad cuz I honestly only really use the jailbreak for that program but the slow speeds are too much

  • andrew

    :( . You guys are right. I was afraid it was winterboard and got rid of it and walla. Things are ten times faster. Too bad cuz I honestly only really use the jailbreak for that program but the slow speeds are too much

  • Andrew

    hi i took your advice and uninstalled winterboard and the zippy speed is great but just out of curiousity what was the theme you have in the picture above. the see threw apps one

  • Andrew

    hi i took your advice and uninstalled winterboard and the zippy speed is great but just out of curiousity what was the theme you have in the picture above. the see threw apps one

  • Andrew

    hi i took your advice and uninstalled winterboard and the zippy speed is great but just out of curiousity what was the theme you have in the picture above. the see threw apps one

  • generalinq

    I’ve never installed Winderboard for that reason exactly. No problems here. a crash the odd time but RARELY.

  • generalinq

    I’ve never installed Winderboard for that reason exactly. No problems here. a crash the odd time but RARELY.

  • generalinq

    I’ve never installed Winderboard for that reason exactly. No problems here. a crash the odd time but RARELY.

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  • louis

    Thanks for the tip. I wrote it up on my blog

    http://www.touchmyapps.com

    I noticed a speed difference right away. Also, I found that backgrounder had caused some stability issues as well. i uninstalled this a week before i deleted winterboard and noticed some increase in speed, but no where near the increase after getting rid of winterboard.

    Louis

  • louis

    Thanks for the tip. I wrote it up on my blog

    http://www.touchmyapps.com

    I noticed a speed difference right away. Also, I found that backgrounder had caused some stability issues as well. i uninstalled this a week before i deleted winterboard and noticed some increase in speed, but no where near the increase after getting rid of winterboard.

    Louis

  • louis

    Thanks for the tip. I wrote it up on my blog

    http://www.touchmyapps.com

    I noticed a speed difference right away. Also, I found that backgrounder had caused some stability issues as well. i uninstalled this a week before i deleted winterboard and noticed some increase in speed, but no where near the increase after getting rid of winterboard.

    Louis

  • ariel

    thank you i think much better now after uninstalling winterboard

  • ariel

    thank you i think much better now after uninstalling winterboard

  • ariel

    thank you i think much better now after uninstalling winterboard

  • http://www.youtube.com/Skiller555 David D Eval

    Hey!

    I have uninstalled Winterboard too, but…
    I still noticed slight lag when I’m playing Tap Tap Revenge. That little lag made playing the game almost impossible.

    Now I remembered a general fact: Installing extra system apps on any system consumes memory, even the little ones. So I uninstalled the “5 icons in the dock” tweak, and guess what?

    The lag was gone!

    This may be a hint for others: Background system apps and Springboard tweaks slows down your iPhone. The best thing to do is just uninstall them all, it really speeds up!

  • http://www.youtube.com/Skiller555 David D Eval

    Hey!

    I have uninstalled Winterboard too, but…
    I still noticed slight lag when I’m playing Tap Tap Revenge. That little lag made playing the game almost impossible.

    Now I remembered a general fact: Installing extra system apps on any system consumes memory, even the little ones. So I uninstalled the “5 icons in the dock” tweak, and guess what?

    The lag was gone!

    This may be a hint for others: Background system apps and Springboard tweaks slows down your iPhone. The best thing to do is just uninstall them all, it really speeds up!

  • http://www.youtube.com/Skiller555 David D Eval

    Hey!

    I have uninstalled Winterboard too, but…
    I still noticed slight lag when I’m playing Tap Tap Revenge. That little lag made playing the game almost impossible.

    Now I remembered a general fact: Installing extra system apps on any system consumes memory, even the little ones. So I uninstalled the “5 icons in the dock” tweak, and guess what?

    The lag was gone!

    This may be a hint for others: Background system apps and Springboard tweaks slows down your iPhone. The best thing to do is just uninstall them all, it really speeds up!

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  • Graham

    Can anybody verify whether or not winterboard slows down the iPhone in the new 2.2 firmware? I can’t tell but it seems to be running fine.

  • Graham

    Can anybody verify whether or not winterboard slows down the iPhone in the new 2.2 firmware? I can’t tell but it seems to be running fine.

  • Graham

    Can anybody verify whether or not winterboard slows down the iPhone in the new 2.2 firmware? I can’t tell but it seems to be running fine.

  • Ronnie D

    I recently pwned my 2G iphone to 2.2, was experiencing at least 6 seconds delay just opening ‘Settings’. I uninstalled Winterboard and immediately noticed just a 2.2 second delay when opening the ‘Settings’ page. Sure seems to me that Winterboard was slowing my iphone down.

  • Ronnie D

    I recently pwned my 2G iphone to 2.2, was experiencing at least 6 seconds delay just opening ‘Settings’. I uninstalled Winterboard and immediately noticed just a 2.2 second delay when opening the ‘Settings’ page. Sure seems to me that Winterboard was slowing my iphone down.

  • Ronnie D

    I recently pwned my 2G iphone to 2.2, was experiencing at least 6 seconds delay just opening ‘Settings’. I uninstalled Winterboard and immediately noticed just a 2.2 second delay when opening the ‘Settings’ page. Sure seems to me that Winterboard was slowing my iphone down.

  • corey b

    what about summerboard? does that slow down ur iphone as much as winterboard?

  • corey b

    what about summerboard? does that slow down ur iphone as much as winterboard?

  • corey b

    what about summerboard? does that slow down ur iphone as much as winterboard?

  • David D Eval

    Summerboard is the built-in menu from the iPhone. If you uninstall that, I don’t think you will be able doing anything on it.

  • David D Eval

    Summerboard is the built-in menu from the iPhone. If you uninstall that, I don’t think you will be able doing anything on it.

  • David D Eval

    Summerboard is the built-in menu from the iPhone. If you uninstall that, I don’t think you will be able doing anything on it.

  • http://martinkou.blogspot.com/ Martin Kou

    I did a bit of research about this issue as well. I found the issue was caused by memory leak in the syslogd daemon. Uninstalling Winterboard will only delay the problem, not solve it.

    I’ve written an analysis about the issue, here:
    http://blog.thinkbulbs.com/2009/02/how-to-stop-your-jailbroken-iphone-from.html

    My fix requires some knowledge of UNIX systems, so it may not be suitable for casual users. But I guess someone can “port” it to a GUI app in Cydia so casual users can access it.

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