Heading today for my 3rd iPhone - What is failure rate?
I am on my 2nd iphone now - first one was not stable making any calls. I spent all yesterday with tech support from Apple when my new iphone started rebooting repeatedly, and was not resolved even after a normal restore and then a complete re-setup as a new phone and reinstall of iTunes.
Phone now reboots on every startup and has the message that the iphone is broken and please contact Apple Support. Does not know its IMEI or ICCID and will not complete a restore or setup.
I am extremely frustrated at this device. I love it when it works, but feel strongly there are a LOT of problems that they are still working out with users as beta review. I will not accept a 4th phone - I would rather go back to Windows 6.1
I agree that it is very odd to be on the 4th, 5th or even more replacement phone but I disagree that it is always the user causing this. I had troubble with my Palm phone 2 years back. I don't temper with phones, download applications I was actually just using it for calls and text messaging. But my phone crashed every so often. It turned out that the phones had a problem and that incoming SMS could trigger the crash. Once they figured that out and distributed new firmware it never happened again.
My guess is that most likely people who receive regularly SMS will run into the trouble while others rarley using SMS don't.
Today my 6 week old iPhone stopped working (message is: phone needs repair!) over night while beeing charged. And I see lots of other users have the same problem. So I guess the iPhone has some kind of bug which needs to be solved.
I just hope that this time it will be my one and only replacement phone.
Just my 2 cents.
Ilonka
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