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Woodcrest64

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Aug 14, 2006
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Just wondering if anyone is still running iOS 3 on anything. I have the original iPad and would love to put iOS 3 on it for better Safari performance.
 

Jr. Pac

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May 23, 2014
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I have a 3GS on 3.1.2 that I won't update. The 3GS is the only device that seemed to even run OS3 decently and smoothly. Haha
Aside from that a couple of iPhone 1st gens, one of which is on 3.1.3, the other on 1.0.
 

quackers82

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Mar 13, 2014
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I dont, but just looked at the google analytics for our companies website and I'm seeing iOS 3.2 and iOS 4.0 in the traffic for the last 30 days.
 

im_to_hyper

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Aug 25, 2004
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Pasadena, California, USA
iOS 3 "Continues to Live"

There is a 3rd-party firmware called "Whited00r" which is technically a pre-jailbroken iOS 3 already modified to look like iOS 7 with a bunch of the extra "cruft" removed to be optimized for performance. I won't link to it here, it case that is not allowed.

It isn't going to win any speed competitions but it seems to make first-gen devices much more usable!

I don't think the iPad can be downgraded from 5.x back to 3.x without the "SHSH blobs" for it.

If the iPad is jailbroken, here are some tweaks
 

0387274

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May 21, 2014
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I have a 3G still running 3.1.3, sn0wbreezed of course. iOS 4.2.1 really kills the phone.
 

Jr. Pac

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May 23, 2014
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IMHO 3.1.3 even kills the 3G. Only OS ever fast on it was 2.x.

It seems like the 3GS was the only one that ran OS3 decently.
 
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