jengelz wrote:
This is incredibly frustrating. I was at the Genius Bar last week and they told me this had to do with applications and not the actual phone.
NOT TRUE.
absolutely correct; this is a phone problem, not application problem; also i don't think it's even a firmware problem. (evidenced by MY phone which has had the zombie effect with EVERY normal install of EVERY 3.xx firmware).
I reset it back to factory mode like they told me, set it up as a new phone and not under my existing one like they told me, and didn't add any applications to see if it would still happen.
IT STILL DOES.
which it will; you are describing the 'zombie' effect not the 'coma' (won't wake at all from sleep).
Not only is this frustrating, but I am missing calls, texts, voicemails, too. I've done tests where I'll use my landline to call my phone that is turned on, and it will not register that I am receiving a call. When I send text messages, it will show that I have full bars + 3G and STILL just as I hit send, it goes all of a sudden "SEARCHING...." to "no service" then a minute later my service slowly starts creeping back up.
What the heck is going on? And how can Apple blame applications on this when clearly this isn't the cause?
i solved my phone's zombie problem twice; i'm considering as an experiment re-installing the firmware 'normally' 'to see if i can re-create the zombie and re-work the trick i used to get rid of it.
especially if your phone is covered, i would give it a try i call it the 'crash install'.
by just dumb luck, during one of my many many (about 20) DFU restores of 3.1 onto my 3G, the iPhone happened to crash just after iTunes finished sending the data and while it was showing the apple with white progress bar below (stopped moving about 10%, just locked)... i was forced to reset the iPhone, i re-initiated DFU on iPhone and re-restored 3.1 and the zombie problem went away (of course still had the coma issue; about every 30 hrs it locked).
when i updated just normal 'update' from iTunes to 3.1.2, the coma was fixed and i re-acquired the zombie; the effects of which are demonstrated
In This Movie (hyperlink), i re-created the 'crash' during install by using 'force quit' of iTunes during the firmware upgrade (yup scary i know; but i've had either the computer or iPhone crash at least 8-10x during firmware upgrade, and never failed to eventually get it), so i wasn't too worried.
anyhow; if you have 3.1.2 and 'zombie' effect and dont' want to wait another month or six (or twelve) to see an official cure, i would try the solution that has worked 100% of the time for me.
-awr
