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  • kek legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    June 22, 2010 5:00 AM

    Okay, so has anyone gotten iBooks to work on an iPhone3g running iOS4? It's jailbroken if that makes a difference.

    Ever since yesterday afternoon the books and pdfs I've synched to it don't appear and I can't redownload the books I own or download new samples of books. It starts to work...the book appears in the bookshelf and the progress bar fills up but then hangs at 99% and never finishes. I quit iBooks and return and the book isn't there.

    Is this a known issue? I did a quick search on support.apple.com but didn't see anything.

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      June 22, 2010 5:01 AM

      It works on mine, but seems quite slow. iPhone4 is coming tomorrow to solve that though :D

      • kek legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        June 22, 2010 5:02 AM

        Okay thanks. I guess I'll restore the OS without the jailbreak and try it again.

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      June 22, 2010 5:31 AM

      I just tried this out on my 3G (previously jailbroken, but I haven't re-applied the jailbreak since upgrading to iOS4).

      iBooks itself is incredibly slow, almost intolerably so. It *does* work, though...eventually.

      I was able to re-download The Time Machine, which completed without any visible problems. However, upon opening it "The book could not be opened because the requested resource was unavailable". Closing it, then re-opening it seemed to fix that, although the layout was a little wonky. Closing and re-opening again fixed that as well.

      Page turns are crazy-slow - like 1-2 seconds after swiping. I crashed the app both times I tried to "slow-turn" the page.

      This is not a pleasant reading experience on the 3G.

      On the other hand, the Kindle app is working just fine.

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        June 22, 2010 5:49 AM

        I don't understand why it lags so much, is the 3G really that slow in comparison to the 3GS that it can't handle what looks to be a fairly simple app?

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          June 22, 2010 5:50 AM

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            June 22, 2010 7:47 AM

            IIRC, lack of multitasking is a memory thing (3GS must have a bit more ram), and the homescreen wallpaper is due the the 3G not dealing well with the dropshadows they implemented to keep things looking nice - so rather than leave them there with poor performance, or leave them out and have things look "bad", they left the feature out entirely.

            As for iBooks, there's really no excuse for it being this poor on the 3G, considering as the Kindle app does nearly all the same things (fancy page turn animations aside), and doesn't bat an eye. I really have to put it in the same category as Square's port of Final Fantasy - not recommended on the 3G.

            All this is of course moot for me once my iPhone4 arrives tomorrow, but this really blows for 3G users who don't upgrade.

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              June 22, 2010 8:05 AM

              If the Kindle app runs fine, why doesn't iBooks. Beside page turning animation is there really anything to differentiate the two?

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      June 22, 2010 5:50 AM

      I've got it. Stanza is so much fucking better. Proper full screen view with way less wasted space, far more options. I wonder if Stanza can be used to read the protected ePubs you buy in iBooks though.

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