iPhone 4S dropping network and data at random

Hi,


I've been using an iPhone 4 on a Vodafone contract for the past 16 month and just bought an iPhone 4S direct from Apple. It arrived on Friday morning and I got it set up correctly as far as I can tell.


When I first turn it on, it works lovely and exactly as I would expect, able to make calls, send texts and access the internet via the cellular network. However, at what appears to be random, the network will disappear (no bars of signal) stopping me making calls and texts, but still allowing me to access the internet. Sometimes, the Internet goes, but I can still make calls and texts. Other times, everything is gone and I get "No Signal" where it normally says Vodafone UK.


So when trying to fix this problem after it's noticed, I try putting it into Airplane mode and back out. The phone scans for a network and goes back to the same state as before I tried this fix. I have tried resetting network settings, but this doesn't change anything. The only thing that actually fixes it temporarily is turning the phone right off and back on again.


At this stage I assume this is a bug with the software, but I wondered if anyone else is experiencing anything like this? If no one is, I will take it up with Apple, but I don't really want to do that as I love the new phone so much!!


Cheers, Stuart

iMac (late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.3), 27" i7 Quad-Core, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 2:53 AM

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Dec 22, 2011 7:01 AM in response to antonfromnorth brunswick

OK, at least i see that it's senseless to install betas on Megafon... thank you.


I'm on 5.0.1 (9A406) and still have the failure.


I've contacted Megafon and they tried to locate the issue. Up to now they do not have to many report about this problem as not much customers updated their 4s to 5.0.1 so far.





I have amicro-simMegafon.

4S iOS 5.0.1. (9A405).Special problems withsignal lossornetwork is notwatching.

Dec 22, 2011 7:53 AM in response to konrad_s

konrad_s

lucky you!

my iphone 4s is form Germany, simlock free

iOS: 5.0; 5.0.1 (9A405) then 5.0.1 (9A406)

got new microSIM from Megafon (SPb)

Still freezing...


It works OK for some time - for me its about 24 hours, then lost the network.

At the moment it's OK for about 24 hours, but i completely switched the data transmission OFF (just WiFi is working).

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