2.2.1 Last Resorts

I had previously been a member of the "2.2.1" killed my WiFi" thread, but after a great deal of erroneous posts on that topic, I have decided to post my own discussion on the topic.
The guidelines for this post is simple. First, this deals strictly with WiFi issues that cannot be resolved with traditional methods. The body of iphone users that seem to be in the most frustrated camp are the ones that upgraded their firmware to 2.2.1 and can no longer reliably connect to ANY WiFi networks.
"Any" is the operative word, because there are a wide range of WiFi issues that one can come across that are traditional networking issues (i.e. WEP, WPA password issues, router firmware, MAC address filtering, etc.). The issue I want to address in this thread is the WiFI issue that seems to directly be related to temperature, AKA the "freezer method" It seems like a growing number of users both 2G and 3G iphone holders have experienced this, and it seems to be a widespread enough issue that it is not a end user issue through neglect or abuse (dropping phone too many times etc).
My experience with Apple support was a negative one, largely because no one that I spoke with was aware of any issues with 2.2.1, and secondly that the repair process was cut short because my water sensor had been activated and they would not continue the repair process any further.
I would also like to add that I am not an idiot. I did not put my phone in the freezer until Apple told me they would not fix my phone. The only way I can figure my phone has been subject to any mositure is from using an iphone armband when I run.
There have been some very insightful posts regarding heat buildup potentially related to faster WiFi performance from 2.2.1 as well as some others. What I am interested in accomplishing in this post is information from users that may have had success with more permanent solutions than the "freezer method" and/or feedback from users that have gotten any direct feedback from Apple or any Apple representatives that have insight on potential solutions. Again I want to emphasize, please do not make reference to any "router related" WiFi issues including Static IP addresses, etc, those have been covered in a different topic. Thanks in advance.

GOOD NEWS FOLKS !
So, I have found something that's held up under some testing to this wifi hardware issue post 2.2.1 ..... I eluded to it in a earlier post. I suspect the battery although I am cycling my original iPhone spare battery on a special charger at the moment to get it ready for use.
I have now found the common factor in my wifi working and not working .... it's charge level of the battery. If the cell is < 50% wifi just works .... if it's above it has problems. If the charge level is 90% + and I try to use wifi the phone can reboot with warning. This, as I said before may be the cell not being able to provide the current demand of the phone.
So - why do I only see this with 2.2.1 - well, if wifi was unthrottled, it will draw more current exposing a marginal battery at certain voltages.
This would explain why the freezing thing works - LiPo cells are very sensitive to temperature. Now, I do recall over xmas we had a -10 night and I left my phone in the car - it was ok afterwards but maybe I screwed the cell.
What I also noticed yesterday is when I plugged my phone in at 20% to charge, within 3 minutes on the charger it was at 50% - I unplugged it and it went down to 20 again - all over the place.
I had solid wifi this morning with a warm phone - ran down the battery from 40 to 20% and then charged to 50% whilst on a call .... the phone was very warm and I still have wifi working. I made sure I unplugged it at 50% of charge.
When I get the existing battery out I will put my load simulator on it through some charge and discharge cycles (in a metal container just inacse).
I just picked up my phone again (42% of charge it's still hot from my last call) - wifi is working.
So ..... this may just be a simple case of heavy use LiPo's we've all got that has come to light with the upping of the wifi performance. This btw is not Apples fault as LiPo's do degenerate even if you dont use them. If, like me, you do a lot of deep cycles (down to < 20% a lot of the time and then charge), it's hard on the cell chimistry.
More later when I have time
-scott.

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I give up - but trying this as a last resort with ...

To whom it may concern,
I would be grateful if you can look into the following issue. Please don’t stop reading at any point, it does get interesting, it’s not boring.
Broadband issue – Chain of events Telephone – Mr. Alastair Paterson,
I first rang on the 14th Aug to say that broadband was not working. I spent nearly an hour on the phone checking the sockets and filters as well at 6-7 minute line test with a call centre person. The line was tested and was advised nothing was wrong with the line. I agreed that I would give it a day and see if it came back.
15th Aug – rang again. I had to go through the whole process again with testing the sockets which I explained I’d done, testing the line, but did it all again. It was agreed then that I would require an engineer.
I was told however that if the fault was inside the house I would be charged £99.00. This I disagreed with as I was a BT customer. However as my contact was over a year, I was now out of contract. I discussed the matter in length and was advised I would be ok, if I re-signed with BT. I was then put through to sales without be asked. I was put on hold and then I arrived in Sales, where I was subject to a sales pitch. I declined the sales pitch at the time.
I was now left in a situation where I couldn’t have the internet fixed for free unless I re-joined BT. I rang BT faults again, went through the whole line and filter thing again and finally agreed for an engineer to visit my house as I was confident the fault wasn’t in the house.
16th Aug – If by magic, I was able to now get back onto the internet, I thought this must have been something to do with the calls I had made. I then called the number I had received a text from detailing the date of the engineer who was arriving and cancelled the Engineer’s appointment.
2 hours later I lost the internet again. So I was now in a position two days later, back to square one.
17th or 18th Aug – Thinking it may come back, but it didn’t. I rang again. Again I had to go through the whole issue with testing the line, testing the filters….. I explained that an engineer had been booked and cancelled, but this meant nothing I had to go through the whole thing again. I was also told again if the fault was inside the house, the engineer if booked would cost £99.00.
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Between the 20th Aug and the 10th September I spend numerous hours trying to get the internet sorted and another engineer out. I was told I wasn’t allowed an engineer to come out to me as the phone number was on a new account as I had changed packages and that the line would not be fixed until the 7th/8th September. I was therefore a further 17 days without broadband.
The 7th September was 3 days before the engineer was to arrive to fit the BT box. This was the day of the new contract started. No matter how I explained what had happened before, I couldn’t get another engineer out before. This was absolute madness, I was now without the internet still paying BT for the internet on my existing account, but it wasn’t available till the 7th September on the new account. The original fault was given on the 14th Aug. Despite ringing several times to try an escalate this, I was hitting my head against a brick wall, at one point I was on the phone for 1hr 40 mins only to be finally cut off after waiting 13 minutes in the faults department, they just ignored me, I wasn’t abusive, just very cross.
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Finally the 7th September (the start of the new contract) came and 3 days before the engineer was to arrive hoping the broadband would be fixed as this was now a new account. It wasn’t, nor was it on the 8th. I was advised my BT Vision box would arrive the 7th; I stayed in all day for it, not to arrive. It didn’t arrive on the 8th either which was a Saturday.
Monday the 10th I rang the number for BT vision problems number to say that the box hadn’t arrived. I advised that I had received two texts informing that the box would arrive on the 7th. I was advised that it was in fact wrong and that the engineer would be coming out with the box, I asked them to contact the engineer again to advise that my broadband still wasn’t working despite him turning up, I spend 20 minutes explaining the whole situation again this but wasn’t confident that they would get in contact with him, but they said they would. At least he had been contact twice now about the broadband fault.
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Please don’t get bored…it does get better…………………
Shaun kindly tested the line and advised the fault was outside of the house (thank god) and nothing was wrong with the socket or connections within the house. His laptop confirmed this. It was the BRAS sync speed that he couldn’t do anything about it except report it to BT wholesale. It would take 48hours to fix. Shaun was very helpful and left without leaving the BT box as it wasn’t going to work. The speed he reported to me was less than 0.25kb, it should be 3,000kb. The line speed was at 3.5 – 4.0
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I left it till Wednesday 12th (48 hours later) when I called to say that not only did my broadband still not work after 48 hours I could no longer make outgoing calls. I then had to go though the whole testing the line again and changing the filters, this must have been the 6 or 7th time I had done this since the 14th Aug. You must understand my utter frustration by this time and speaking to a call centre that are very difficult to understand at any time, to top it off, they were not aware of the report the engineer had put in. I was back at square one again, for the centre to say they have no record of the report the engineer had made was unbelievable. I watched Shaun the engineer type the report and send it.
It was agreed that another engineer would be send out; this was arranged for the Friday.
Friday arrived, still not being able to make outgoing calls and without broadband. Steve arrived in the afternoon as agreed and after a chat and a cup of coffee said he was only here to fix the problem with the telephone line faults, he was nothing to do with broadband. I was about to go into orbit…….
Steve fixed the issue with the outgoing calls, and was very happy to try and help me with the broadband issue, but this was not his area, despite having knowledge of it. He made this clear; he was not told about the broadband problem.
Stay with it…it gets better…
I then proceeded to ring the BT call centre again when Steve the engineer was there and explained the situation, they again asked me to go through the whole line test and filter process, despite explaining the whole situation, beforehand. I passed the engineer to the person in the call centre and he explained to the person (Rubel) what the fault was.
Shaun had come to the same conclusion that it was the BRAS speed. He explained this to the call centre operator who then asked him to test the line and check the filters, so he could do a test. I could also see Steve getting angry, but he was very professional. Finally after 40 minutes it was agreed that I should wait another 48 hours for the BRAS issue to be resolved. This was after the same person asked me to test the line, and as he put explained,” he was forced to ask the question”.
On the Saturday I re-arranged for the BT Vision engineer to call again as I was confident that finally the issue had been identified and it would be sorted. I knew it would be over a week before the BT Vision arrived. The engineer was book for Saturday 22nd September.
On Monday 17th Sept, Yudish rang me to say that the fault had been resolved; I challenged this as I was still unable to get on. I told him it was the BRAS sync and not the line speed and he went away and checked and then agreed with me it was running at 135kb, yes there was a fault. He would speak to BT wholesale and get it resolved, he couldn’t do it on-line and that it would take another 48 hours. Now this time I was just beginning to laugh to myself. All of this was explained by the engineer and me the previous Friday, yet nothing had been done. Yudish would ring me back again on Wednesday 19th at 09.30am as another 48 test needed to be done.
Yudish did ring on the 19th Sept all be it at 09.43, he rang to say there was still a problem with the BRAS and that he needed to send any engineer. By this time I very sorry I got very irate. He advised me that the engineer would be going to the exchange as well as my house as the fault had to be fixed manually as it couldn’t be done remotely. He advised me that if the fault was in the house I would have to pay £99.00, this despite now being a new BT customer. I put the phone down. The engineer is arriving Monday 24th September between 08.00 and 13.00, the txt said I received.
Today is Thursday 20th September and I now have an engineer coming Saturday for BT vision and Monday to hopefully fix Broadband. I’m not cancelling the Saturday engineer because I want to keep the BT box and fit it myself if the fault is not fixed Saturday or Monday. If the fault isn’t fixed Monday, I will be cancelling all ties with BT and contacting offcom.
I’m not confident that I will get a response, however I will pursue as long as it takes.
I do want some serious compensation for the total lack of service, as well as not being able to use broadband since the 14th Aug, not being able to make outgoing calls and generally the stress and 3 day holiday’s I have taken off to be in when an engineer or BT Vision box is to arrive.
Yours sincerely
Alastair Paterson

Hi Alipat1,
Sorry to hear that you've been having an awful lot of trouble with your BT Services.
Firstly the call out charge of £99 is a charge Openreach (the company that the engineers work for who fix and maintain the lines for all communication providers) is passed onto BT Retail (your communication provider) which will then be passed onto you if there is a fault within your property or equipment.
Openreach, a division of the BTplc Group, but who are a separate company under the BTplc group due to Ofcom rules, have many different types of engineers for specific problems.
Openreach maintain and fix the lines for all communication provider is the UK. BT Retail do not get any priority or special treatment from Openreach as Openreach treat all isps/communication providers equally.
As you have had so much trouble trying to restore and setup your BT Services then would you like to contact the BT Care Team by clicking on the link below.
Contact BT Care Team
The BT Care Team are a BT UK Based specialist team who have a good reputation for solving customer problems.
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Hello,
I have been a loyal BT customer for 40 years. I am so disappointed and confused by the service or, to be more accurate - lack of service, that we are getting.
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I can hardly use the phone either. It crackles like mad and even if the connection doesn't drop out, i can't really hear what the person at the other end is saying.
I would appreciate someone from BT doing something about this. I have had my fill of talking to someone the other side of the world who seems to think that I should get every electrical appliance in the house checked out before BT take any responsibility for the poor connection. For years we have had 3 phones in the house. Now we are told we can only have 1 so that our broadband will work. Well we now have one phone that crackles like mad and a pretty much unusable internet connection. It used to work fine. Now we have to wait half an hour to connect to our e-mail. I am paying far far too much for this appalling service.
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welcome to the BT community forum where customers help customers and only BT employees are the forum mods
in order for the forum members to help please can you post the adsl stats from your router may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or use a-z, if netgear enter 192.168.0.1) and run btspeedtester (MAC users may have problems). when first test completes then run diagnostic test and post the results .
are you connected directly via a filter to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal if you are getting crackle then you need to report a phone fault to 151 and until you get that fixed you will never get broadband sorted
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I've tried at the Adobe Macintosh forum, but haven't had any advice that's helped, so thought I'd try here!...
I have Adobe CS3 Design Standard Suite, Educational version, running on OS X 10.5.5 on my MacBook Pro.
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3 - uninstall and re-install the entire CS3 suite (using the Adobe uninstall utility)...have tried 3 times so far
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Problem solved.
This code works in new project:
Me.AxAcroPDF1.LoadFile(Path)
Me.AxAcroPDF1.setShowToolbar(False)
But not in the old project.
By adding this code in the old project it works.
Me.AxAcroPDF1.LoadFile(Path)
Me.AxAcroPDF1.src = Path
Me.AxAcroPDF1.setShowToolbar(False)
Me.AxAcroPDF1.setView("FitH")
Me.AxAcroPDF1.setLayoutMode("SinglePage")
Me.AxAcroPDF1.Show()
Wonder why....

IPod Problem... really need help. This is last resort.

I have a huge problem with my video iPod. I can connect it to the charger, no problem. But when it comes to connect it to my PC, it just will not read it at all. Usually it dignifies being connected by showing the "do not disconnect" symbol. But now it just will not read at all and shows no other symbols on the iPod. I have tried everything I can on both the PC and iPod but nothing works.
Please help, me being the idiot I am, I have important uni files on the iPod that I didnt make a back up-for.

I have a huge problem with my video iPod. I can connect it to the charger, no problem. But when it comes to connect it to my PC, it just will not read it at all. Usually it dignifies being connected by showing the "do not disconnect" symbol. But now it just will not read at all and shows no other symbols on the iPod. I have tried everything I can on both the PC and iPod but nothing works.
Please help, me being the idiot I am, I have important uni files on the iPod that I didnt make a back up-for.

The Last resort for my Ipod Nano

I have 4 mb Ipod nano that dosent respond. I've tried the 5R's, when connecting it to my PC, ituens dosen't recognise it, and its dosen't charge when connecting to the mains.
It's less than 6 months old so it should'nt be a battery problem! if it is a battery problem what can I do.
Any advice is welcome as I appear to be going around in circles trying to solve this on the web.
Alan

Alan,
You said your iPod is less then 6 months old? Your iPod should be still covered by its 1 year standard hard-ware warranty. If you go to apple.com/support on the right-hand side you should see a spot where you can enter your iPod's serial number and it will let you know if your warranty is still in effect. Also since you have tried the 5 R's you can send your iPod in for repair via depot.info.apple.com/ipod
Kind Regards,
Ms Daisy

-48 The Last Resort Plus the Word From Apple

It pains me to say this people and quite frankly im ashamed with myself. After all the hassle with this -48 error and no fix after a month i reformatted my ipod on a windows XP machine and its now working perfectly. I've docked 5-6 times, loaded on 3000 tunes without a hitch. I have to say the software is now much smoother than before, downside is it just takes ages to mount.
I spoke to Apple again this eve regarding my 30GB video iPod, they are on the case and are gathering as much info from customers as possible. I was told that the problem is that Mac OSX is telling iTunes that the ipod is corrupt and that is throwing the -48. The bottom line is the iPods aren't corrupt and this is the problem. Apple are advising the disk utility repair method as a temporary workaround.
Cheers

In what way was my reply condescending?
I was just trying to convey to the OP that it's pointless asking on these forums when Apple is going to issue a new iTunes version, that's all. No one knows.
Apple traditionally don't announce new products either software or hardware until they are released. So we just have to wait. I'm not here to make apologies on behalf of Apple, but that's the way it is.
"you computer nerds can be."
You may not agree with anything I've said, but why the need to attack me on a personal level?

The LAST resort I am asking for help...

I have been trying to get the BT infinity in for 4 (?!) months now. I all started 20th July and I was asured that the line + Infinity will be there in 3 weeks time (some stupid standart waiting time). and then i t began.... BT canceled 3 of my orders without informing me, than they "provided" me with the phone line, but surprise surprise - wrong address. THEN the BT internet engineer came and of course he was not able to connect Infinity - because there was no phone line in. After that they had some serious nerves to actually charge me £55.45 for the phone line they never provided. Promissed to refund it 2 months ago. First the sum of money somehow became £53.45 second it was never refunded.
AFTER I was advised to contact one person in particular in BT (woohoo I was so glad that someone actually will help me) well yeah... he did not... He set up the phone line engineer to come in ANOTHER 3 weeks, so I waited till 28th October - him being late 2 hours was not the problem, the problem was that he was absolutelly not qualified for the job + he never connected the line. Leaving after 4 hours (o_0) in my basement where all the BT line box is he and his coleague asured that the line is connected and will be activated the next morning and they "just cant activate it now, because the exchange is closed at 6 PM".
I have already taken 3+ days off at work which actually cost me £300+ in income.
I have been harrased by BT staff by phone weekly for all of this time promissing me callbacks/solving problems/refunds/calling me back in 5 minutes etc. all this period of time. I have been hung up upon calling BT tens of times. I have been redirected to wrong departments i guess hundreds of times now. BT chat is useless.
Long story short:
1. I want my money back, and I want a FULL refund;
2. I want my Infinity in ASAP;
If anyone is out there who can help - please do.
Thank you in advance.

ozyri wrote:
sent you a PM, thanks
You cannot use a PM.
Please see my example below.
Use this link.
This is the form you should see when you click on the link. If you do not see this form, then you have selected the wrong link.
When you submit the form, you will receive an enquiry number, so please keep a note of it
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

Custom Size Paper - Last Resort

I'm using a Mac G4 PowerPC with OS X10.04 with an Epson Stylus Photo 2000P.
I'm trying to use the Page Set-U menu in PhotoShop to print a custom document size 12x12 inches. The printer is capable of printing 13x19 in color. In the Page Set-Up menu I go to custom page size. I set up a new custom size file with the new size thand the margins and name the custom size. It shows up at the left under the customer file name. However, when I go back to Page Set-up and go to Paper size, my new customer size is listed at the bottom of all the Epson established custom-sized paper list, but the file name is in gray, not black, so cannot be selected.
A hint might be that in the user defined area of the custom size window, I cannot get the Epson 2000P printer to show up. The only printer that will show is my Epson 5700i laser printer. The Epson 200P is my default printer in the Printer Setup Utilize window. Of course the 5700i will not print in color nor will it print 12x12. Is there a way I can get my Epson 2000P printer to show up in the user defined area? Maybe that's why my new custom size title does not appear as usable on paper size under the Print Setup.
I talked at length with Epson. After trying all they could, obviously with no success, they said it must be a software issue. I can print all the other various sizes available in the Page listed on the Page Size under the Page Set-Up menu so they show in black, but not the custom size I developed that shows only in gray.
I then called Apple, and was told they no longer support my computer. Thanks a lot Apple. I guess this is now my only option.
Any help would sincerely be appreciated. Thank you very much if you can help me solve this issue.

Hi - I'm not sure which printer you have or which application you're printing from, but your printer likely has a custom paper size setting. In whatever application you're printing from, go into Print, select your printer and then choose Properties. Depending on your printer, there will likely be an option for a customer paper size, where you can specify the size. You might also go into Page Setup in your application and see if there is a customer paper size option in there as well.
Hope that helps.
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