Constantly getting "No Service"iPhone 3
G'day people
My iPhone 3G is starting to really annoy me.
Every day, at some point, the phone says "No Service" and I can't make or receive calls. Yet, if I do a reboot I get 5 bars!
It's got to the point where I have to reboot the phone twice a day. Is anybody else having this issue?
I've got firmware 2.0.1 and I think it's worse than when I had 2.0
Thanks
Al
I keep getting these same issues, granted I don't get the best signal where I live but, I thought the iPhone 3G was meant to fall back to EDGE > GPRS > GSM? I didn't have any problems with my 2G iPhone at home so it's absolutely puzzling!
I also keep getting 'NO SIM' and 'SIM NOT VALID' type messages in between and making calls has become really hit and miss. Has anyone else had these problems?
I've been reading up on trying to resolve this problem myself, so i've tried every trick in the book! including reseating the SIM. I'm just about to try the SIM in my 2G model to see if it's a SIM issue but I don't see why it should be, there can't be that much to SIM card so much that it could develop a fault.
At this stage I'm just a bit disappointed, Apple products are usually really good and well built, but it seems to me that the iPhone 3G was a bit of a rush-job...
Thankfully the staff at the store are the most helpful people ever, so I've got no doubt if it turns out to be a hardware issue, then they will replace it.
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