iPhone 4 (iOS 5) stays searching network, i need help!

hello lovelhelmet

i almost have the same problem as you discribed, but my iphone 4 after i have upgraded in IOS 5.0, my iphone keep searching for network carrier all the sudden, after trying this solution from Angus Cooney as follow

1. Go to "Settings" Next "General" Next "Reset" and last "Reset Network Settings"

2. It will tell you" This will delete all network settings " tap the red "Reset Network Settings"

your phone will reboot..

3 . Now this is the trick..

Go back to settings and turn "Airplane mode" on then back off! and it should connect after that.

Good luck and let me know.

Same case for me 😟

Hi musica_ms

Thanx for tip, but I've done this multiple times and it only worx for a couple of minutes.

Step 3 in your tip forces sim to get network connection agaiin and this is good. But then it crashes again, and again, and again..

I think this is caused by baseband crash that happens continously..

So again, flood apple support on this matter, only solution to this bug.

Hello from India where a lot of us are facing exactly the same problem. Our thread is here: http://bit.ly/t3CA62 and we are using the Twitter hash tag #4Snwglitch

Same problem here...

I keep restaring my telephone 2-3 times a day.

😟

Same problem here with my iphone 4s when I have the cellular data on and try to call or access the internet the phone goes searching. The only solution that I found is to turn off the cellular data and the phone works well.

i live in Puerto Rico and I'm having the same issue. Came to AT&T the first time (7 days after I bought it) and they said it was the sim card so they changed it. On the 20th day, the problem came back and at the AT&T store gave me a new device. Today is the 32th day and the problem is BACK!!!! Don/t know what else to do!!!!! Please fix this ASAP cause I pay to have a phone, and mine is not working!!!!

I've done everything you said, disable and reable and the problem persist.!!!!!

try turning off cellular data and keep it that way only using wifi. this works for me but the problem with that is that can't us 3g

hope they fix these soon.

tell me if this works for you thanx

I'm also very unhappy with this I can't check my emails and the most important can't use siri. But i was just checking if this was a "solution" to stop the searching problem in my phone or on all the phones.

same goes for me, and this barely happened today! its so annoying

I've gone to great length and put lots of hours into this matter trying to figure out what's causing this problem. And as you can see in my earlier posts I've tried everything and have had extensive contact with my operator (Tele2) in this matter.

I finally caved in and returned my iPhone 4S to Tele2 and they sent it to Apple which in return sent me a new phone a week later with iOS 5.0 installed. And TADAAHH!, Everything worx like a charm.

Note, I have the same exakt microSIM, a new phone with supposedly same hardware but iOS 5.0 instead of 5.01 and making and receiving calls and messages now works like a charm.

This is my tip, return phone and get a new one with iOS 5.0 on. This saves you a lot of time and headache.

Conclusion It's not the choice of operator and not the microSIM that's causing this problems. It's either the hardware in the first iPhone 4S that was sent out to customers (like mine), the software, or a combination there of.