IOS5 sms alert/ tone issue

Here's another take on this problem.

Firstly, thanks to all who suggested to turn off the "view in lock screen". This definitely works to remove that overlapping SMS tone. But you'd end upsacrificing the lock screen notifications. Bummer...

There is another anomaly I noticed when I'm in a SMS chat thread itself in which if I am plagued by the overlapping/stammering alert, receiving an SMS would sound like a convoluted sound of the incoming ballon sound mixed with the general SMS alert sound. I got around this problem temporarily by the following method (with the view in lockscreen already turned on):

1 - putting my iphone into standby mode (blank screen).

2 - ask a friend (or use my "other" phone) to send an SMS to my iphone

3 - when the notification appears on the lock screen. slide the "Slide to reply" (or swiping the small SMS icon as it appears also works) to directly go to the SMS app itself.

4 - thereafter, there won't be anymore overlapping/stammering SMS alerts, nor would the SMS alert tone convolute with the polite bubble sound (within the SMS-thread) while inside the SMS app anymore.

Logic-wise, its like... if you have the "View in lock screen" activated for the SMS notification, then it must fulfill its mission in life from the lockscreen to bring you directly to the SMS app. Otherwise, the stammer problem would be lingering around somewhere in the background like a nagging ghost until you actually activate step 3 above and clear its notification buffer/queue.

... but alas, if you'd enter the SMS app via the main screen to check on unread SMSes, then the stammering problem would return (until its accessed via the Lockscreen's "Slide to reply" method).

So a more permanent fix (until the next iOS upgrade, hopefully) would still be to disable the "view in lock screen" toggle. And whether the SMS app is tagged inside the notification Center or not, or alert style, or badge or preview.... doesn't seem to make any difference.

The culprit here is exclusively the "view in lock screen" toggle.

And this seems to be a iPhone4/5.0.1 problem (have verified this with 2 separate iPhone4/5.0.1 on different carriers. The problem is consistent and repeatable). I tried to replicate the above on a 3GS/5.0.1 and there were no such problems.

Maybe someone can try this with a 4S/5.0.1 and share their findings as well.

Hope this helps, and hope someone from Apple is taking notice here so that it helps them replicate the problem and hopefully fix it in the next iOS release.

Cheers.

iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

I think it's only with the iPhone 4 updated to ios5. I have tested it on an iPhone 4 with company installed ios5 and 3GS with company installed iOS5 and they don't seem to have this issue.

Okay the bad news is that I just updated 4/5.1 and the problem still exists.

Can someone pleae tell that anyone at apple is reading this or we are just talking to each other?

Apple doesnt give a **** about our issues..

I am sure they dont read our posts.. You could even abuse TIM COOK, they won't respond.😉

There are many issues that need to be resolved. My iPhone has got this sms tone issue and a Yellow tinted display as well. Many users have this issue. And folks at apple store say that many customers have complained about this but its not a defect and on comparing the screens of two different iPhones u can clearly see that its a huge defect.

Please Apple , if you accidently see this post then do something.

I have Iphone 3gs with iOS 5 already. I just noticed now that when I am in the sms thread and the same person replies back, the message alert is just like an incoming balloon sound(as described by MugenFoo in one of his reply above) not the default sms alert sound that I set in the Sounds option.

Is this normal?

Finally this has stopped for me. What I did was for a few days I got all the notifications removed and then restarted after a few days and now the irritating continous alerts have stopped.

Updating iOS to 5.1.1 fixed this problem. I have been having this problem since iOS 5 till iOS 5.1.

Since I done a update to the latest iOS a week ago, I am not having this issue.

Please note I did a full restore and not an OTA

The problem with tone issues (repeats 3 times as if it's broken ) is still not solved for iPhone 5 (6.0.2) - it's quite irritating! Any suggestions how to fix this on this version? Thank you!