4s signal searching

I ended up bringing the phone back. There are no Apple stores in Ireland so my provider had to send it to Apple. Am waiting to see what happens. I hope it's sorted soon.

I tried all of the above bar switching off cellular data.

In my opinion there is no point having an iphone if you can't go on line or check your mails... Might as well dig out my old Nokia 3210!

Also i can't use my old iphone 4 as i had changed provider and the old network wouldn't unlock it for me...

For me the problem was solved by erasing and reseting th ephone entirely an NOT using the backup of my old 3GS...

I installed iOS 5.0.1 yesterday.. I reenabled the features I had disabled. It seems to be working fine right now, though it's still early in the game.

well, this forum is full os searchig for signal problems on Iphone 4S...what else can we do to make Apple peole understand that this is a problem.... ????? omg! Steve Jobs died and th company is already going dowwwwwwnnnn!! to bad, 28 days with my iphone, and at AT&T have changed ir 3 times already!! The worst part is that I bought a NEW iphone andwhen they change (the 3 times) they gave me a reburbishe one, çause tha't Apple policy.... thumbs down to you!!

Anyone find a solution to this problem yet?? I am on 8 phones and besides what the idiots at apple say it is not the phone! I created all new IDs and accounts, the only thing linking my phones now is the phone number.

No solutions up to now...I Have the same problem

This problem is all over the place.

Yet many people are still saying it's a non-issue.

It's anything but a non-issue, and if you're lucky enough to get a replacement it still won't do anything really.

As the problem, I think stems from the Dual Antenna system and the software that auto switches between signals.

thanks for your comment, I agree with you. Hope that apple will address this

Ok I just found the root to my searching issues!!! I thought it was a little odd that after restoring or replacing my phone it always goes searching when my girlfriend sends me a picture message. The pictures never come through and finally today I decided to try something. I fully wiped clean and restored my phone through itunes, phone is working great, I send a picture message from her phone to mine, two other iphones and one tmobile phone because her carrier is tmobile. All three iphones never received the picture and went searching right away, the tmobile phone received the pic fine. Besides feeling bad I took out two of my friends phones there is apparently a cellular data glitch that causes the base band to fail. If you turn cellular data off when it searches the phone works fine, you just can't get email, pic messages, or any of that unless you are in a wifi spot. At least you can call and text until you get home and redownload it with itunes. Hope this saves some people from losing their minds and helps apple locate this glitch.

how did u clean and restored??

I am also facing similar problem. I have 4S and Airtel connection from India. I never got my connection working fine continuosuly for more than 10 minutes.

I get one of the following : "Searching", "No Service", "Invalid SIM", Connection shown but when i try to call, it goes to searching mode.I have the latest iOS and have a new SIM i took from Airtel.

I have tried all the above options but still no luck.

Any other work around? Is there going to be any software fix at all?

Thanks,

-Rajesh

turning off som location services and cell network search seems to have stabilized my 4S for now, thanks pappasbike and mahasen for the tips

Hmm... i even turned off the location service completely with cellular data turned off as well... not helping me 😟

i guess atleast we should know what the actual problem is...

seems i spoke to fast, after i turned off some location services it worked well for almost 12hours, about an hour ago i turned it turned off my 4S and on switching it on it began behaving even worse than before this is a bug that Apple needs to fix

what location services did u turn off? can u tell me plz ty