3GS Wifi greyed out, bluetooth won't connect, 4.3.3
Soooooo I have done some trawling around on here and haven't really found something that has provided me a solution to my problem (described above). The story so far....
Now that I think about it I don't think my wifi has been working for a few weeks but my bluetooth was until recently. I can't say for sure if these failures have coincided with an update to 4.3.3 or earlier for the wifi problem but that ceretainly makes sense in terms of timing.
There seems to be a healthy amount of material in the Apple Community that describes these problems however no clear solutions that I can find so far. I have done the usual software check, settings restore and full restore with no change at all.
Any tips groovers?
If you've done all troubleshooting (i.e. reset, restart, restore, restore as new) and the device is still not operating properly, that would indicate a hardware problem.
A trip to the Genius bar would be the next step to have them confirm the hardware problem.
If the device is still under warranty, it will be replaced.
If the device is not under warranty, you would be eligible for a Out of Warranty replacement which in the US is $199.
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