I'm having an issue with the Proximity Sensor not properly detecting when i'm holding my phone to my ear. I can confirm that the iPhone sensor is working by covering it with my finger, but when held to my face, the screen blinks as if it cannot decide to disable the screen or enable it. It results on me hanging up, putting calls on mute, and dialing numbers accidentally while i'm on the phone. This occurs on 90% of my calls. Is anyone else experiencing this issue. I would like to confirm whether this is a software issue (Proximity Sensor sensitivity too low) or a design issue (sensor now placed towards the end of the phone).
I am too.. This is awful. I should have waited till later in the year for them to fix all the crap that is wrong... Reception and this are bothering me.
Please do some testing with this. You can initiate the proximity sensor with the voicemail screen, if you start playing a voicemail (non speakerphone) it will fire up the sensor waiting for you to put it over your ear.
Use your finger though and place it above the ear speaker slot while a voicemail is playing. Let us know.
What do you mean by "reception"? Are you actually dropping calls or are you just referring to the signal strength icon? If you're just referring to the icon, that's a bug and being worked on, but it doesn't correlate well with what signal you're actually getting.
I am having the same issue. I am holding my phone in the exact same way I always did with my 3G, and it is right up against my face, but it continuously switches the screen on and off. I was just on a 10 minute call where mute was turned on 3 times and speaker once, all by my ear.
Yes I forgot to mention that as well. It does work, but just not correctly. I actually think the issue would be that it is too sensitive, since the slightest movement makes it think you have removed the phone from your face completely.
My wife and I both have the same exact problem with out phones. I was on an hour phone call this evening and my phone muted me 5 times, put me on hold and tried calling my work and then put me on hold and tried to send a text message to my work. This is very dissapointing. Ok, that last one with the text message is kind of funny. But for someone who has had apple products for years on end, this is about the worst experience I've had so far.
Goto settings, general, and reset, and reset all settings
It will wipe out your wireless setup settings, but it restored my proximity sensor and others.
True it is a somewhat different problem,
but it is proximity related and seemed to be caused by the restore in itunes from my old 3g.
It just seems too much like a coinicidence.
Only noticable settings I lost when I reset, was just my network settings.
Which takes less than a minute to enter again.
I just reset my settings - we'll see how it goes. It already fixed another weird thing I saw with unread marks in emails not updating correctly in the inbox view.
But I should warn people that resetting all loses a lot of settings, not just all Wi-fi. It removes all website logins, all clock settings, all mail setup (except the accounts) and more.