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"Unable to load network list" instead of "Hello..."

I am using my 3G iPhone for more than 6 months.
Latest OS 2.2.1, and previous versions are causing a lot of headaches when I switching my iPhone upon arrival.

I am travelling a lot in Europe, every day; I have a Company phone, old Nokia 6300 and my private iPhone 3G.

Nokia connects network in one minute (average), but iPhone...

Instead of "Hello" I am getting always "Unable to load network list" when I switching OFF Airplane mode. There is only one button active: "Automatic" mode of network browsing. When "Automatic" is pressed, iPhone searches network for 3 to 5 minutes and lists the networks available in that specific region.

There are no automatic attempts to connect to any of these listed networks, so I need to select one of the listed networks manually, tap it again, and after some minute or two I am getting service...

I was trying different combinations of 3G and Roaming modes, but did not have any success...

All these headaches started when I performed first OS update.
I am not sure the factory OS version (probably 2.0.2) when I bought it, but only that one was free of the Carrier network browsing bugs.

I am becoming tired of tapping and tapping trying to force to connect to network my iPhone… I tried numerous times OS Restore with iTunes, but no help…

I found a topic in forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1671274&tstart=270
But his topic has been archived - replies are not allowed, This question is not answered.

Any ideas?- and does anybody have this or similar problem like mine?

Jonas Jonikas

Vilnius,

Lithuania

Good, Windows Vista, None

Posted on Apr 4, 2009 12:45 PM

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Apr 5, 2009 5:12 AM in response to JonasJJO

Hi there,

I had kind of the same thing where i would arrive abroad or back in the UK after being abroad and my iPhone would take 20-30 minutes to get a signal and when loading up network selection would always get unable to display message.
Had phone replaced by apple and the issue hasnt occured in the once ive been abroad since - connected pretty much straight away.

Just wondering if you are having the issue of delayed text messages where people text you and sometimes it takes 30mins-few hours to get delivered to your phone. Or the issue of people sometimes call you and you good signal and it goes straight to voicemail??

May 21, 2009 2:29 AM in response to JonasJJO

I still have this problem. When I arrive in Spain or Finland or UK or France, each time I get off the plane it takes from 10 to 15 minutes to load the network list. My other phones don't have this problem. Does anyone have a solution. Not sure why it should be the hardware, in other words why switching phones solved the problem for the previous post. Anyhow it is a real pain and significantly undermines the utility of this particular tool.

"Unable to load network list" instead of "Hello..."

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