Update to 4.0.1 made reception WORSE?
so a few weeks back i updated my iphone 3GS from 4.0 to 4.0.1 and my AT&T phone reception appears to have gotten WORSE, much worse. for example, at home i used to get 4 to 5 bars of "3G", now i only get somewhere between 2 to 4 bars of "E." also, i didn't used to have call-drop issues, now the phone drops calls a few times a week, or just hangs when i try to make a call. i never used to have to attempt calls multiple times before connecting. now i do almost every day. did the update screw something up? ***?
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I intend to take out an iPhone contract with Vodaphone in January (supposedly when they are releasing). I don't intend to try Orange, I have had a terrible experience with them in the past.
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Anyone who is thinking about taking out a contract, I advise you wait, anyone who still has the ability to cancel without incurring penalty I strongly urge you to do so.
Such a pity, the device itself was the best gadget I ever had, absolutely loved it, but it's a phone first and foremost and i'm certainly not paying £250 up front and £45/month for a phone that only works on GPRS, I can get that for £10/month and no upfront from Virgin (same minutes/texts).I tried absolutely everything but thanks for the suggestions.
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As for booking an appointment ahead of time, I already view Apple and the way they operate as pretentious and aloof, it's a SHOP, I should not need to book an appointment to walk into a shop and talk to an employee, that is not how shops work. I have a faulty product that needs to be replaced, I do not need to book an appointment to have a 'genius' ask me textbook questions before implying I must have tampered with the phone before reluctantly offering me an upgrade.
In any other store a normal sales clerk will do that without making me wait 5 hours, I just get in the queue.
Given the deadline for being locked into the contract was monday, I didnt want to risk waiting till saturday night for a new phone and being given just sunday to test it, because the first phone was fine for four days before giving me problems.
To axemandu:
I completely agree, whether the problem is with Apples software, the 3G chip Apple chose to use, or the service providers (or a combination of any of the three) the level of communication and service that a number (i'm not going to make any assumption as to how many, but more than enough to support 100+ page threads of complaints) of customers are recieving a level of service that is totally and utterly unacceptable and something needs to be done.
I was lucky that I could ditch my contract, others were not so lucky and those people are being left with a huge monthly cost for a phone that is essentially, broken 24/7.
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Nice updates/fixes but what about the reception issue?
Don't want to beat a proverbial dead horse, but what about making the IPhone 4 a better receiver of calls? My 3Gs was the BEST phone I ever owned. I rarely had a dropped call, I was able to make and receive calls in places where no phone I had owned previously could. When I read that this phone had the best reception of any IPhone (according to Apple) I went and made the switch. Yes, I read many posts where folks say just that, great phone. I am on IPhone 4 number three and all have been plagued with reception issues, thought the first two were worse than this one. I go to the same locations every day and the 3Gs sent and received calls remarkably better. Just sayin.....
n2speed125 wrote:
What ps issue? I have none!! The reception issue is real and I lose signal in places where my 3GS would not.. I can hold my 3gs any way I like and still use the internet.. While using my iPhone 4 in the same place, all I get is the spinning wheel of death and it does not connect.. I've had the bumper on it since I got it and while it may help a little, it does NOT make the issue disappear..
Just because an issue doesn't effect YOUR phone, doesn't mean it's not an issue for others..
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i have tried to attenuate the signal on my phone and cannot with the case on no matter how i hold it. if i take the case off and hold the sweet spot it drops like crazy. maybe your bumper isn't covering the antenna well enough.
i got the incipio NGP for 19 bucks at walmart. if you put that case on and still have the issue then i think you are totally full of cr@p.
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