Original iPad + ios5 = slooooooow!

[BD2003]

Every since I upgraded to iOS 5, my original iPad is now way less useful as a device. Even little things take longer than before. Anyone else notice the same thing?

 

[runawayprisoner]

Nope. Did you do a full restore or did you just update? I restored all of my previous-generation devices in the house (iPad, iPhone, iPod), and they all work faster and smoother on iOS 5 compared to iOS 4.

 

[BD2003]

Nope. Did you do a full restore or did you just update? I restored all of my previous-generation devices in the house (iPad, iPhone, iPod), and they all work faster and smoother on iOS 5 compared to iOS 4.

Both. First I did the update, noticed it was slower, then did a full restore, no difference. It's still usable, but it's distinctly slower, particularly when switching apps. I don't remember my iPhone 4 getting slower...maybe I'll just have to wipe the entire thing and start from scratch.

 

[runawayprisoner]

That's what I meant. Typically, full restore means start from scratch, unless you restore and then restore from a backup...

If it's not too much trouble, you can try something like iFunBox and such to save document, game saves, and so on onto your hard drive manually.

The automatic backup feature of iTunes backs up system configuration files, so if anything gets left over from iOS 4, it'll cause slow-downs, because iOS 5 introduces some new configuration options and deprecate some of the others.

Of course if you jailbreak, it's worse...

 

[Toasthead]

my original ipad LOVES iOS 5

 

[Eug]

My iPhone 4 is noticeably slower with iOS 5 as well, as compared to iOS 4. However, the OS itself is that much better.

The iPad 2 flies in comparison to the iPad 1 (and the iPhone 4 of course)... but it's still slow for some internet content.

 

[gevorg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

 

[PrayForDeath]

I have two original iPads (64g and 16g) and both perform wonderfully under iOS 5.0.1. I restored after the update, and then I restored from back-up to recover my settings, game saves, etc. They're also jailbroken.

If your iPad is jailbroken, get iWipeCash and Clean Up (forgot which repositories, google it) and run them. They will take some time to finish working, but should help improve your iPad's performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

/tinfoil hat