Brand New iPhone 4 Accessory Error when not connected to Anything at all!

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Brand New iPhone 4 Accessory Error when not connected to Anything at all!

I got my phone out the box and immediately began experience this message. "This accessory is not optimized for this iPhone" - "You may experience noise caused by cellular interference and a decrease in cellular signal strength" - It was not, and had never being attached to anything. I have reset and restored it to IOS4 (not synced).

The message persists about once a minute, even if the phone is sleeping. It's too new to have lint trapped in it, even though I have checked the dock area for obstructions.

Iphone 4, iOS 4, Brand New

Posted on Jun 24, 2010 4:21 AM

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dave6145

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Jun 24, 2010 4:33 PM in response to BigBadOwl

Same problem here- it has been ongoing for about a month now. I also noticed that the battery life is about half what it was before this began. I have tried the hard reset, still nothing- also, the wi-fi is no longer working. Nothing has been done to this phone other than the regular upgrades from apple. Any suggestions???

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Deodato

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Jun 26, 2010 10:46 AM in response to BigBadOwl

Yeah, I have the same issue. that pops up every time I plug my car stereo into my phone, then the phone just stops sends music to my stereo.

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EBSkater

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Jun 26, 2010 10:58 AM in response to BigBadOwl

This means exactly what it says. That means that the iP accessory was not "optimized" for the iP. In my opinion, it's a gimmick, and is something along the lines that the accessories aren't shielded for the iPhone, or some other cr@p like that. In my opinion, it's a gimmick to sell you overpriced accessories, and to keep you from purchasing non-Apple products.

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Deodato

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Jun 27, 2010 9:51 AM in response to EBSkater

Well, no. This stereo was purchased last year. It's fully compatible. Here what I actually figured out last night. If you have a faulty data cable it will interfere with the data flow causing this error to occur. Try swapping out your data cable for a new one. It worked for me, works like a charm.

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Jun 29, 2010 6:44 AM in response to Deodato

Deodato wrote:
Here what I actually figured out last night. If you have a faulty data cable it will interfere with the data flow causing this error to occur. Try swapping out your data cable for a new one. It worked for me, works like a charm.

Harder to explain is why this also happens to me, with the iPhone 4 in a JBL speaker/dock. There is a next-to-zero chance that the dock connector in the JBL has somehow been damaged during the few days I've had the new iPhone as compared to the many days I used the 3GS. It is also hard for me to understand why this message just popped up today while the iPhone 4 was in the JBL dock, but did not pop up over the past several days while the iPhone 4 was in the same JBL dock.

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