iPhone 4S unable to turn off 3G?!

transmogrification wrote:

I strongly feel your comment was inflammatory,

You realize that you just (accurately, in my opinion), criticized yourself?

My appologies, Meg, Andreas838, and others. My intentions were and are not to stifle constructive dialogue or dissenting opinion, only to promote it and present relevant facts.

I feel this topic has turned into mostly a bonfire of positional cheer leading with no real helpful regard to the real issues and facts surrounding them. My appologies for taking my frustrations of that out here.

My appologies, again. I am not an insensitive person, I have no intention of being rude or discourteous and I sincerely apologize for being insensitive and unwelcoming.

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Yes, that might be a solution, but wat if i want to use it when i surf the web, and stop using it when i don`t want to? I call my carrier 10 times a day?

Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data 'OFF'

I want to browse at 3g speeds, but i want to talk on the edge network, just like iphone 4 does.

"Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data 'OFF'"

Oh... not this again.

Please see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3385464?answerId=16867647022#16867647022

Re: iPhone 4S unable to turn off 3G?!

Dec 19, 2011 4:23 AM (in response to shahid javed)

"Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data 'OFF'"

Oh... not this again.

Please see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3385464?answerId=16867647022#16867647022

If only things were that simple ......

Being unable to turn off 3G is causing me all sorts of problems on my new 4S, the battery is drained fast because where I live and work my 3G signal is very weak, and I cannot make and receive calls when the signal bar reaches zero.... APPLE PLEASE HELP US AND PUT THE 3G OPTION.

I had an iPhone 4 before and it was working flawlessly

That does not turn off 3G only cellular data. Due to how the walls in our office are constructed we do not have a good 3G reception resulting in dropped calls or no reception at all. When we called Apple the sugested that we keep using iPhone 4 or install a 3G transmitter from our service provider in the building. The iPhone 4S do automatically downgrade it self to i.e. edge but all phone calls are dropped during the switch-over. We have ordered a 3G transmitter to support 4S.

To summarize:-

1. Apple blundered severely by not designing their phone/iOS to offer 2G/3G toggle as score of people are finding their phones unusable with 3G services enabled. (turning off data does not mean that the phone goes to 2G. The phone will stay on 3G voice network till signal fails completely)

2. If Apple is not willing/able to offer the toggle, then the least it should do is acknowledge the mistake and offer full refund for any one wishing to return, irrespective of some carrier or the store policy of not returning (I am facing one).

3. As this acknowledgement and return policy would leave Apple red-faced, this will not happen unless strong public backlash forces Apple to take action.

It is now a matter of building up such a strong public opinion.

Yes, this is stupid. We all got new iPhones at work BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE CITY MY FIRMWARE FIXED PHONE WON'T LAST MORE THAN 8 HOURS BEFORE IT DIES! That's with ZERO CALLS and a single push for EMAIL ONLY once every hour everything else completely turned off and the screen brightness all the way down. EVERYBODY ELSE LIVES OUTSIDE OF TOWN SO THEIR PHONES WILL LAST ALL WEEKEND WITHOUT A CHARGE AND PLENTY OF CALLS!

IF I TURN ON WIFI AND PUSH ALL WITH NOTIFY AND ACTUALLY USE THE PHONE FOR CALLS THEN THE BATTERY DIES FASTER THAN THE CHARGER CAN CHARGE UP THE PHONE!!! RIDICULOUS!!! Even turning on airplane mode and dimming the screen won't stop the drain because it still won't last longer than 24 hours. (Once again I must stress I have upgraded firmware for the battery fix and my phone is new right out of the box.)

APPLE FIX THIS FAST OR MY PHONE IS GOING BACK TOO!!!!

But can you receive calls? I couldn't

Most of the time i Can't when the reception while on 3G is down at one bar. How ever when it does get even worse it switches over to Edge and I then full reception. On our iPhone 4's we solved this at office by disableing 3G and every one has full reception all the time.

I hope you're all using the apple support site, such as express lane and sending them suggestions about this issue. Not just posting here.

I don't think they even look at the support formum.