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Text/iMessage alert tone problem since ios5 update

Since I updated my 3gs to ios5 last week, when I recieve a text message or iMessage, the tone 'stutters' before playing. At first it was quite funny, after I had switched the handset off and on again, it stopped doing it for a few hours, but then started again. It's now quite annoying. Has anyone else had the same issue or can advise me on what to do to fix it? Many thanks in advance 🙂

iPhone 3GS, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 20, 2011 4:07 AM

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Oct 20, 2011 12:36 PM in response to rachel270281

Hi I came here to ask the same question.


I've just bought an iphone for the first time (4S) and my message notification sound stutters as well. It seems to be related to the vibrate feature because if I turn vibrate off it no longer stutters. The strange thing is that the new mail notification never stutters even with vibrate on. Also my GF iphone 4S never stutters on new messages, even with vibrate on.


Do you think this is a hardware fault or software bug?

Oct 31, 2011 6:14 PM in response to rachel270281

Hi there,

Same here, had this problem before, but so far so good.

I did the soft reboot and it was a temp solution. It came back after a while.

Then I tried the hard reboot and as i said, so far so good.

You might want to try the "hard reboot" as i read the same solution mentioned

in another thread.


Have a nice day.🙂

Nov 3, 2011 3:13 PM in response to rachel270281

This is really irritating.


Yes a reboot seems to fix it for a short while but then the problem returns. As this appears to be a software bug at least there's some hope that it could be fixed in a future OS update. However I'm not to hopeful of this getting fixed in the upcoming OS 5 update as it appears to focused on fixing the issues with the battery life.


I wonder how many people this issue is affecting, if its not widespread we may never get a fix!

Text/iMessage alert tone problem since ios5 update

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