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What is inadvertent about it running apps in the background? That is what iOS 4 and mutli-tasking are all about.

The 3G only has 128Mb of RAM and multi-tasking needs more RAM than that. Downloading more than 50 emails (total, not per account) in Mail, can choke a 3GS with 256Mb of RAM, and that is with threading turned off.

I am of the opinion, that Apple either should have given a severe warning about the speed being reduced on the 3G and announced official method to return it to iPhone OS 3.x for those that want to try.

If they had not allowed the 3G to update, they would have been called controlling, and people would made a media event (spell that as circus) of it claiming that they were forcing users to buy a new iPhone.

On Jul 25, 2010, at 7:40 AM, Inner jewel wrote:

> Does your phone have multi-tasking? I can't remember if the 3G has it or not. If it does, then probably too many things are running in the background.
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> Double click the home button, then press and hold anyone of the icons that pop up. A red "-" mark will appear next to each icon. When you see this click on each mark until all icons are gone. This will close any apps that are running inadvertently in the background and let your phone run quicker.
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> Sent from Ashi's Enchanted  iPad 
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> -original message-
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> I'm wishing I hadn't updated my 3G iPhone with the new operating system. I'm having problems with the phone responding very slowly and also my Mail app often freezes and shuts down. I also keep getting back messages which I've already deleted several times.
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> Can anyone please suggest what I can do to fix these issues? I don't really want to go back to OS 3.1 as it looks a bit complicated and I've read that some have had issues after doing that too.
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> Thank you.
> regards
> Jenny Schimak
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