Iphone 3G no service

Wow, obviously some similar problems here. 3 days ago I arranged to send mine back because of "8" dead pixels. Today I'm getting the identical problem. "No service"
"Restricted Network" What is going on!?

lindsay i have the exact same problem, i have no service all the time?

i actually sent the first no service iphone 3g back and recieved another one, which did the exact same thing! it says no service everywhere, and in these locations my friends recieve service from o2!

any ideas?

i've had the same problem with my o2 iphone 3g :



after finally getting through to o2 support in the late afternoon (tip - dont try calling the morning - i was on hold for 30 minutes before i gave up) a friendly younge lady answered my call and helpfully found the problem was with my o2 account. The phone was working again withing 5 mins, ironically my 3G reception is not stronger, i get another two bars at home.

Compensation was not offered however after i requested it i was offered another 60 minutes this month.

Did O2 transfer the iPhone IMEI and SIM to your account? Putting it another way, is your IMEI of your old phone still attached to your account?

I would call up O2 customer service and ask them to repeat to you the IMEI registered on your account.

I have a blackjack 3g and a tilt 3g, i get 5 bars where i live and at work, but with the iphone i get the "NO SERVICE" the only way i can get it to work is by turning off the 3g and i get 5 bars on edge but i bough this phone because of its 3g function. I ve got 2.1 running on it.

Same thing happened to me last night... I live in NYC and the 3g has been pretty terrible anyways, but now when I switch to 3g, it says "No service" and won't flop back to EDGE. The only way to get the phone to work is to manually put it on EDGE... Defective... I'll take it back with my recalled power adapter.. I am so tired of this phone.

jawtkin, I live in NYC also and the same exact thing happened to me yesterday afternoon. I was on 3G and suddenly it says "No Service" and wont automatically switch to Edge....i haven't been able to get 3G since....i am taking it back tomorrow.

I would call AT&T and see if there was an outage. I know for me and few other users that when there was 3G outage the phone would just get "No Service" and not automatically switch to the EDGE. Dumb that it doesn't because of the outage, but it has been outage related....

Montreal here
same problem happening as others
shows the network but says its restricted. what gives? Anyone have any fixes or ideas?

i had a similar problem and just got a replacement 3G today...

when my iPhone would switch to EDGE from 3G, the transition would be smooth, no problems there. but when i got back into a 3G area my phone wouldn't switch back. this would happen everyday because i work right on the fringe where a 3G area meets an EDGE area. if i would try turning airplane mode on and then off to try and get it to see 3G, it would just endlessly search. if i tried to toggle the 3G switch, i'd get No Service. sometimes, after 30 minutes or more it would come back, but usually i would have to do a hard reset.

i tried all possible troubleshooting and nothing worked, so Apple swapped me out.

That's interesting because there was some thread from a while back talking about how someone in Europe crossed borders and his phone couldn't find his home carrier when he got back into the country. I wonder if some of the problems people have in the States are because AT&T actually runs what were mix of different networks (i.e. cingular vs att).

I called AT&T and they had me do a reboot which didn't help and then told me to reinstall the software. I think its a hardware issue since my buddy who sits right next to me at work had 3G all day today.

Jawatkin and Shaps24...I'm so glad I read your posts...finally...I've been going crazy ALL day with this. This past Sunday in the afternoon I was in my house in Fort Lee, NJ (Right under the GW Bridge) and noticed that SAME problem. No service with 3g but had to manually turn it off to get it to work. Called ATT, the first woman said there were probs, but i didn't trust her so i called back and second guy said no probs with service and that I shoudl go to apple. All day I tried to fix it and nothing worked...I took a friends iphone (same make and firmware) and he had full 3g service. Couldn't get time with the Genius Bars at any of the City Apple stores, so I went to Apple in Paramus, NJ..and as soon as I walked in...voila...3g started working. It has to be something to do with coverage around the city and maybe out sims? Email me if you get an update!

There's definately something going on in the New York City area because as I mentioned above...much like the two before me...all of a sudden (right around the same time they mentioned it happened to them) I get "no service" on 3G but it won't automatically switch to Edge...I have to manually turn 3G off. My neighbor at work has the same phone and firmware and he has great service, but when I went out into NJ a bit, 3G came right back. Somethings fishy...maybe certain Sims need to be updated??