Roaming onto T-Mobile in the USA has caused untold problems
I have been New York - Manhattan since last Wednesday.
On arriving in the USA my iPhone roamed onto AT&T 3G - no problems - amazing service! Blistering fast internet, Maps work like a dream & all my apps running smoothly.
On Thursday night went o a club with poor reception. My iPhone roamed onto T-Mobile, then the pain began!!
The signal on my iPhone now continuously fluctuates from 1 bar to full reception every 5 seconds. What I mean by this is that I get 5 bards for a split second then 1 bar for aprox 4.9 seconds. This in tur is causing the iPhone to crash aprox every 3 or 4 minutes.
If I'm not a WiFi network I get the error "You Ae Not Connected To The Internet" when trying to use any app which requires a connection. In addition if I try to send a text message I get the error message "Error Whilst Sending Message". In addition, I have had friends calling me asking why I'm not responding to their texts, so obviously I can't receive texts too
I have repeatedly tried to roam back to AT&T, but every time I go into the networks screen in System Preferences I get the error "Unable to Load Networks List".
I then restored the iPhone to original settings using iTunes, but agin it jams onto T-Mobile immediately and won't give me the option to switch.
I have tried to restore the iPhone to at least get my contacts, mail etc back, but every time I try to sync the iPhone to perform a restore, it crashes. The crashing seems to take place during the network signal fluctuation.
Being quite a logical person I appreciate that this can't be a hardware fault as it worked fine on AT&T, but it seems that there is a problem with the iPhone holding a connection with T-Mobile. In addition, trying to maintain the signal is probably pushing the processor so hard it is causing the iPhone to crash repeatedly.
In addition, I tend to travel a lot. In an average week I'm abroad aprox 3-5 day roaming onto other networks & I've never had a problem with my iPhone 3G.
As you an imagine I'm now getting quite desperate.
So, the point of this post is 2 fold.
1 - Has anyone else experienced a similar issue when roaming, T-Mobile or not?
2 - Can anyone think of a solution to this problem?
Any help, advice or suggestions would be greatly received as I can't bear the thought of having to que at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue on a Sat afternoon to try to get to the Genius Bar....
On arriving in the USA my iPhone roamed onto AT&T 3G - no problems - amazing service! Blistering fast internet, Maps work like a dream & all my apps running smoothly.
On Thursday night went o a club with poor reception. My iPhone roamed onto T-Mobile, then the pain began!!
The signal on my iPhone now continuously fluctuates from 1 bar to full reception every 5 seconds. What I mean by this is that I get 5 bards for a split second then 1 bar for aprox 4.9 seconds. This in tur is causing the iPhone to crash aprox every 3 or 4 minutes.
If I'm not a WiFi network I get the error "You Ae Not Connected To The Internet" when trying to use any app which requires a connection. In addition if I try to send a text message I get the error message "Error Whilst Sending Message". In addition, I have had friends calling me asking why I'm not responding to their texts, so obviously I can't receive texts too
I have repeatedly tried to roam back to AT&T, but every time I go into the networks screen in System Preferences I get the error "Unable to Load Networks List".
I then restored the iPhone to original settings using iTunes, but agin it jams onto T-Mobile immediately and won't give me the option to switch.
I have tried to restore the iPhone to at least get my contacts, mail etc back, but every time I try to sync the iPhone to perform a restore, it crashes. The crashing seems to take place during the network signal fluctuation.
Being quite a logical person I appreciate that this can't be a hardware fault as it worked fine on AT&T, but it seems that there is a problem with the iPhone holding a connection with T-Mobile. In addition, trying to maintain the signal is probably pushing the processor so hard it is causing the iPhone to crash repeatedly.
In addition, I tend to travel a lot. In an average week I'm abroad aprox 3-5 day roaming onto other networks & I've never had a problem with my iPhone 3G.
As you an imagine I'm now getting quite desperate.
So, the point of this post is 2 fold.
1 - Has anyone else experienced a similar issue when roaming, T-Mobile or not?
2 - Can anyone think of a solution to this problem?
Any help, advice or suggestions would be greatly received as I can't bear the thought of having to que at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue on a Sat afternoon to try to get to the Genius Bar....
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