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iPhone 4S Comm Center crash/signal drop solved!

After much reaseach, 6 iphone 4S, and reviews of other people trying to figure out why our iPhone4S' are suddenly crashing, then going into a terminal boot loop, it's this:


MMS from Android phones. Any carrier. Something happens inside iMessage or TXT trying to fetch the MMS, and it causes Comm Center app to crash, and the phone has to be restored.


This happens on all carriers, all Android platforms.


Props to the community for figuring this out, and boos to Apple


When your phone starts to crash and lose signal, look insider your settings under general then "diagnostic" and you will see "Comm Center" crash over and over again, more and more rapidly. It's still trying to fetch the message.



turn off MMS=no more problems



try it, report.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 3:21 PM

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Jan 23, 2012 3:28 PM in response to therealikt

I'ce seen a few reports about this but only in relation to a few Samsung models which were apparently putting something funky in the message. It's certainly not a universal problem. Like Templeton, I've had no issues. I have both an iPhone and an Android and can send MMSs between the two. My circle of friends and co-workers include people with both all varieties of Android phones and iPhones. No reports of problems.

Jan 23, 2012 5:23 PM in response to sbailey4

well here's an update:


All this took place in the Apple Store in Boise, Idaho


We took the Apple Expert's personal phone, a 4 on GSM, and sent a pic to the store demo phone, no issue


then we had my friend with the HTC HD2 on Verizon send an MMS to the same Apple demo phone, and it bricked it. Comm center crashed and could not recover.


We also bricked my phone, then the 1st replacement phone, then the 2nd replacement phone, with the exact same MMS from CDMA to GSM.

iPhone 4S Comm Center crash/signal drop solved!

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