IPHONE 3GS crashes intermintanntly following IOS4 upgrade
Since upgrading my phone to IOS4 last month, I have had no end of issues from a phone that worked fantastic for the last 12 months!
At first, I kept losing the phone carrier and this would occur for upto an hour at a time with the phone getting no signal. No amounts of reboots helped, it would simply find the carrier when it wanted. This seems to have settled down, since 4.1 was released but has happened occasionally since.
There are 2 main issues now.. Poor battery life and intermittent crashes!
Prior to the upgrade, I would charge my battery early morning and go to work on a full charge. If i didn't overly use my phone, the charge could last upto 2 days. However at my normal useage, by bed time the phone would have just under 50% charge left.
Since the upgrade, my phone has lost 50% of its charge by midday. It is now 13:30 and the battery indicator is showing around a 3rd of it'c charge left.
The next big issue is, the phone intermitantly hangs/crashes - black screen with apple logo. It takes around a minute to restart. This can happen any time, making a call, scrolling thru apps, starting an app.
I have reported it to Apple and so far had to blow away my settings and the ios4 update on ITUNES and down load again, the latest upgrades. Disappointingly, this resulted in me losing all my apps. So had to spend an age down loading them all again, but I had a clean version of the os and firmware on the phone. However, the same issue exists.
2nd call to Apple and they now want me to create a new user account, setup itunes on that and blow away the phone again and sync up to a new clean version. This will again result in me losing all my apps, but as I am 30 days out of warranty, I must do this first before they will consider anything else.
I will attempt this tonight, however I am not holding out much success.
I am guessing from the threads this looks to be a common issue.. so any suggestions?
At first, I kept losing the phone carrier and this would occur for upto an hour at a time with the phone getting no signal. No amounts of reboots helped, it would simply find the carrier when it wanted. This seems to have settled down, since 4.1 was released but has happened occasionally since.
There are 2 main issues now.. Poor battery life and intermittent crashes!
Prior to the upgrade, I would charge my battery early morning and go to work on a full charge. If i didn't overly use my phone, the charge could last upto 2 days. However at my normal useage, by bed time the phone would have just under 50% charge left.
Since the upgrade, my phone has lost 50% of its charge by midday. It is now 13:30 and the battery indicator is showing around a 3rd of it'c charge left.
The next big issue is, the phone intermitantly hangs/crashes - black screen with apple logo. It takes around a minute to restart. This can happen any time, making a call, scrolling thru apps, starting an app.
I have reported it to Apple and so far had to blow away my settings and the ios4 update on ITUNES and down load again, the latest upgrades. Disappointingly, this resulted in me losing all my apps. So had to spend an age down loading them all again, but I had a clean version of the os and firmware on the phone. However, the same issue exists.
2nd call to Apple and they now want me to create a new user account, setup itunes on that and blow away the phone again and sync up to a new clean version. This will again result in me losing all my apps, but as I am 30 days out of warranty, I must do this first before they will consider anything else.
I will attempt this tonight, however I am not holding out much success.
I am guessing from the threads this looks to be a common issue.. so any suggestions?
3GS, iOS 4