modular747 wrote:
No one is saying it isn't. After all, updating the OS on a computers never causes any problems for anyone, right? Just tell Apple, not the other users here. Post it on the Feedback Page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
The problem is, Apple hasn't addressed ANY of the main issues people have been experiencing since iOS 4.0. People are still having issues. Unless you literally upgraded to the iP4 from the 3G or 3GS, like what happened to me. But then those with iP4s started having issues with 4.2.1 and now 4.3.
Huh? If they backed up before updating, as instructed and as common sense dictates with any programmable device, ALL the data is restorable. Do you have any clue how restoring works? Only when data on the device is corrupted and you have to restore as NEW (without a backup) is SOME (not ALL) data lost.
Do you back up every single second of the day? What happens if you have text, calendar events, contacts, etc... put on your phone that day, don't back up till the next day, but something goes wrong all of a sudden with your phone. You've just lost all that data. Yet you've done nothing different. Yes, it happens. But that is such a huge inconvenience for many, yet it hasn't been addressed by the company that built the software. The iPhone, or any smartphone was created to help the user in their daily lives. Not make it more complicated and frustrating. Right now, people want a phone that works, we don't need more features that become useless if our phones aren't working as it should. When it was working just fine before the update.
Yet if you do a forum search, the same exact issues have been reported after EVERY update since the original iPhone was released. A significant percentage of people with these problems turn out to have hardware issues or previous jailbreaks/unlocking.
The fundamental difference between this problem being a "bug" in the iOS version vs. a side effect of the updating process in a few phones, is that it's usually preventable with basic maintenance procedures and fixable with certain troubleshooting steps.
I've done a updates under iOS 3 on my previous 3GS with ner a problem. Meaning, by your explanation my phone (hardware) was fine. But the very day I successfully updated my 3GS to the iOS4, my phone went south. So does that mean the software messed up my hardware? Or between the 18 hours I went from a perfectly running 3GS to a crappy one under iOS 4, something happened to my hardware? Never dropped it, EVER, never exposed it to water, never even did heavy usage between that time. So how does hardware get messed up like that? Also, how does 2 other replacements from Apple have the same issues? I agree, it's the hardware, but I also believe it's has a good deal to do with the updates as well. Something in the updates is causing certain phones to do things it's not suppose to. In this case, texting was fine for this user, but right after the update, when doing something as normal as sending a pic message which this person has probably done 100 times before, just suddenly delete ALL her text data. That's not hardware. That's a software issue. Something in iOS 4.3 instructed her phone to delete all her text messages. How, or why is the question everyone having issue wants to know.
Not saying your wrong, but your not completely right either. Again, you can't just say "its not the iOS, it's the phone" when the phone was clearly working just fine prior to the update. If certain features of the phone are messed up after the update are caused by the updating process, wouldn't that cause an overall issue with the phone, and not specific features? Some only have issues with the texting, and battery drain, but otherwise the phone works fine. How do you explain this if it's not something in the iOS itself (even partially).
The problem I have with people like you is your basically saying, "your just a small group compared to the many that don't have bad experience, and we (the people who aren't experiencing issues, are tired of your whining. Just deal with it or get a new phone." That's what's annoying and what I (personally) rebut about.
So unless you have a solution to the issues people are posting here, the rest of us are tired of the "deal with it" attitude you and others like you post. So basically, don't post criticism if you can't help with the issue. This thread is letting people know who's having the same issues, and if anyone has found a solution. And restoring phone as new, hasn't helped. It also informs anyone that is thinking about updates, the potential "side effects" of these updates. So that they don't eagerly updates their phones, until a fix is made. I don't know about you. But after jumping into crap down a dark hole a few times after being told there's a pool down there with a bunch of hot chicks ready to party, I'd now rather make sure what's really down that hole first.