iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You're Not Alone - Continued

taltal -

first - I did reply earlier, from the iPhone 3G, and it did tell me it had been sent, but ... it seems it hasn't arrived, yet anyway, so this is from our iMac ...

anyway, yes, I think I understand the bars, but what I wondered was if the 'phone somehow modified its switching strategies (between 3G & Edge & 2G) according to what it was doing - 'phoning and/or surfing and/or down-loading ...

BTW, while my iPhone 3G was much snappier, after I updated to 2.0.1 ... now, a day or two later, while it's still better on things to do with 3G, I find that when it's just been woken-up & when it's running things like Contacts & Calendar & etc, it is often (not always) rather slow & hesitating, sometimes pausing for seconds ... perhaps in the same way as Fusionman, Seattle has observed !

BTW (2), not only have a few responses to Apple Discussions not, it seems, got-through, despite apparently being sent, I'm sure a few entries I've made (on the iPhone) into Calendar have gone missing - it might be me, but I do wonder !!

BTW (3), we lived in Munich in the '80s - it was a very nice place to live !

Message was edited by: Christopher John Hunter

The silence happens in MID-sentence while the person is talking. They don't notice anything but just keep talking as if I can hear them. It's VERY frustrating and dumb for such an expensive phone to not have good call quality! It's totally the phone, not the service!

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Message was edited by: marcfogel

I bought 3 of these phones and all three show signs of "no service" when there should be service and then suddenly 5 bars of signal show up. I have had the original iphone since its debut and have never had this issue before. I had the sim replaced and apple replaced one of the phones and it still persists on that phone. The other two I am waiting to deal with until there is a fix. Yesterday I reactivated my old iphone and not one service issue with that yet. This has to be an issue with the phone itself. I am patiently waiting for apple to publically aknowledge there is a problem and then fix it. When I was at the genius bar I saw two others complaining of the same thing as mine, each was told there was no problem with the phone after running diagnostics on them. I cant beleive apple wont man up to this and deal with the problem.

I have been thinking about this 850 Mhz "magic solution" that providers should just switch their signals to that lower frequency, and that would do the trick, everyone having full bars, everyone happy.

I don't believe this will be the solution.

first: there are other phones working on 1900 mhz - so it should be possible to use this frequency.

second: as far as i understand the situation in Germany, this isnt possible as no provider has a license to run a 3G network on 850 mhz. I'm pretty sure that's the case.

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