iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You're Not Alone - Continued
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The iPhone 3g was released in July. How did you get your phone in Jan? Also, dropping 20% of your calls is horribly bad and unacceptable by modern standards.
Our iPhones are still in their boxes - O2 gave us the wrong SIMs, so we've had to wait for them to sort that out (impossible over the weekend, apparently) ... so we're still relying on our current 3G 'phones, which are fine as 'phones, but show a lot of the problems noted on this thread when tethered (eg: it took me umpteen tries & over half an hour last night to connect, even though the 'phone was showing five bars - Nokia E61 via Nova to T-Mobile) ...
Can't wait to give the iPhones a go ... this thread makes me nervous, but have to say, based on our experience with 3G over the last eighteen months, my feeling is still that most of this thread just reflects the world of 3G, which is still being rolled-out & improved (HSDPA etc) ... and it'll be really good to say bye-bye to Symbian on the Nokia (always a fight & never did get Wi-Fi to work) and the Samsung (also a fight, and hardly ever managed to tether it, let alone get HSDPA to work) ... the iPhones probably won't be perfect, but they can't be worse than what we have now (hope I'm not tempting fate) !!
BTW, in marginal areas, we've also always found it matters how we hold the 'phone (eg: when in the office, browsing / e-mailing, untethered ) !
+Apple should easily be able to identify, which factory, by the build date and factory number, and keep those ones of the shelves, and replace those with different batch #'s....+
here here!
The powers that be must be aware of this by now and its time they took action.
As it is I am not relying on the iPhone 3G for communications... I kept my Blackberry so that I could work out how to use the mobile me push email service first.... glad I did.
I am certain this will all be sorted out in the end as I have total faith in Apple. They have always looked after their customers very well and I am sure they will continue to do so.
Now... back to the kitchen to cook another batch of souffles!
My 3G iPhone has only 1 bar in reception at a place where ATT is showing strog 3G signal in the coverage map. I have the iPhone for a week, so far, no problem with voice calls, and the speed test show 300 to 400 kbps, so it is not bad. I think the 1 bar does still mean something.
I have the latest 4022 SIM card installed since purchase from Apple store on 7/11. I live in the CT/NY metro area, and I have horrible 3g (no service-1bar) reception, and avg edge (3bar) reception. ATT map says my location has full 3g coverage, I see edge speeds or worse when using 3g data. Lost my first call tonight on 3g too.
remember that exchanging the phone several times (which your cell phone provider will do if you tell them what the phone does) will also cost a lot. the cell phone providers won't accept that.
I don't know how many people worldwide have contacted their providers tech staff, but this has probably also cost a fortune.
Serial number: 86830xxxxx
Model: 16GB Black
Factory: 86
Production year: 2008
Production week: 30 (July) (i.e Last week! / 21st - 28th July)*
Production number: 20563 (within this week)
*Wish they had sorted this out in the 1st week after release!!
I live in almost central London and migrated to O2 for the iPhone experience after 10 faultless years with Orange and have followed this thread with interest as I too suffer from patchy signal service and dropped calls since 14 July
I'm not sure as to who to blame for this as I have mixed reception signals, at work nr The Barbican London EC2 area I get 5 full bars on 3G (-75), at home N1 area I get No Service, with 3G switched off I get a patchy 1-3 bars, the phone is on the 5A345 firmware and is my 2nd one after having the 1st replaced at the Apple store.
Having had 3 dropped calls this morning alone, I called O2 and after running checks they told me that I should have excellent 3G service in my area (at home) as there were 3 x 3G masts in quite close proximity to my home, they then ran some more tests and said that I should get Ok'ish EDGE service. The person then told me to reset the iPhone by holding the key at the top right edge of the phone and the HOME key down until the phone switched itself off (ignoring the slide to power down option) The phone then rebooted itself and after a few minutes of No Service on 3G I now have what seems like 3 stable bars of signal with 3G enabled!?
Now I'm obviously not overly optimistic about this, as I've become way too cynical over this product and it's ability to latch itself onto a strong signal, but so far so good.
Anyway just thought I'd post this to air my iPhone experience to date and what seems to be a temporary fix to a long and drawn out saga.
