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Oct 2, 2012 6:53 PM in response to Eric Maierby mccosha,well this is interesting.
For obvious reasons, I turned my cellular data off - and it is connected - full speed now !!?!?!?!
can someone try and confirm this please?
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Oct 2, 2012 7:01 PM in response to tobifsby Ocean20,I read something today on the macrumors website that explained the wifi issue. I would read that
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Oct 2, 2012 7:35 PM in response to Ocean20by Shanon.Roberts,Has anyone came across these articles which were kindly sent to me
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1452329
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4339516?tstart=0
They talk about potential MAC Addresses that are potentially not compatible "Hardware Issue"
My MAC Address : 44:D8:84:63:CA:17 , perhaps another combination.
This all ties in with how our devices communicate to our WAP's ?
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Oct 2, 2012 8:22 PM in response to Shanon.Robertsby Eric Maier,RE: AES Encryption issue - Good news
Another poster on this thread, ronaldomenezes
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4339516?start=120&tstart=0
Says he was told by AppleCare the issue has been acknowleged, and a memo was issued just this afternoon to replace the affected phones.
Hoping no one else has to have the unpleasant experience I had.
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Oct 2, 2012 9:00 PM in response to phoenixrisesby phoenixrises,I have now taken it back to store for replacement and this one works great!
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Oct 2, 2012 9:07 PM in response to Eric Maierby Shanon.Roberts,Hi Everyone,
this sounds like great news
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1452329
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4339516?tstart=0
They talk about potential MAC Addresses that are potentially not compatible "Hardware Issue"
My MAC Address : 44:D8:84:63:CA:17 , perhaps another combination.
This all ties in with how our devices communicate to our WAP's ?
If they are identifying Iphone 5 with these issues
Are they Identifying Iphone 4s with IOS6 ugrade as having these issues as well ?
As for evidence to keep on the forum for everone as im from Sydney, Australia and the CBD George St arent budging at the moment.
Can we get Names, Numbers, Apple Store Replacement site, name of Apple Tech, the Apple Techs contact details, anything you can possible get when you received a replacement
this could help everyone
Good Luck for everyone i guess
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Oct 2, 2012 9:32 PM in response to tobifsby JordanB310,hey guys, just wanted to give my two cents.
the issue with my iphone 5 was constant wifi drops and hangs...im using an airport extreme and tried many different things and nothing seemed to work..i finally tried something i saw on another thread a while ago, where someone swithced thier router from Wireless N (a/b/g compatible) to Wireless N only... so far its solved my issue and actually seems to give me better signal. its probably just a temporary fix and i agree with the many people that said we shouldn't have to change anything when all of our previous ios decives were working just fine before (for me, the iphone 4)
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Oct 2, 2012 9:46 PM in response to tobifsby rdlmitedu,I got my third iPhone 5 (two replacements..) from the San Jose Valley Fair Mall store, and this time it worked fine. I took a verizon mifi wpa2 adapter in with me to test, and the iPhone they pulled for me seemed to work fine this time.
I took it home and the Apple store wasn't working, which I thought might have been related, but it turns out it was a 5-15 minute Apple Store purchased-items outage (conveniently I was standing next to the Akamai tech who works on Apple's account, who confirmed...). After that outage ended, the device worked fine.
My MAC address on the intermediate non-working phone was 99:FE:xx..., and on the working third phone is 54:26:...
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Oct 3, 2012 2:20 AM in response to tobifsby DrakeCovens,All I did was turn the HTTP proxy to auto on my phone and issue resolved!!! Try it!
Settings, Wifi, click the blue arrow on your connection, scroll to the bottom and just turn HTTP proxy to auto.
Your connection will refresh and the problem will be resolved.
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Oct 3, 2012 2:24 AM in response to DrakeCovensby Barso,This is my third ip5 after exchanging the first two for scuffs and scrapes out of the box. The second even had 5 dead pixels and severe light-bleed in the top left corner.
This new one now has this awful wi-fi issue but the phone is perfect in every other way.
I called tech support and they said it's a router firmware issue yet my wifes 4S on ios6 works perfectly.
If apple came out and said this was a software issue then I would be happy to wait but they won't so I'm out. Nokia lumia and windows phone 8 it is for me.
You've messed up big-time apple trying to get everything under the apple banner with apple maps, apple hardware parts.
There's a reason you use other companies for parts, because they've been doing it for a lot longer and a lot better than you have.
I'm going for a refund today.
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Oct 3, 2012 2:28 AM in response to Barsoby DrakeCovens,Try turning your http proxy under your wifi connection to auto!
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Oct 3, 2012 2:29 AM in response to DrakeCovensby DrakeCovens,On your phone.
Settings, wifi, your connection, scroll to bottom, turn http proxy to auto
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Oct 3, 2012 5:23 AM in response to tobifsby V_77,Here's my story, from The Netherlands:
Last Monday I received the iPhone 5, and I also have very slow wi-fi connection at my house.
I use speedtest.net and my average is 1.09 Mbps. To compare, my iphone 3Gs (which I have been using the last 3 years) manages around 11Mbps. When I connected to wi-fi at work, I managed around 5 Mbps. At home I use a Netgear router (i can post details about version and firmare tonight)....here are my phone specs:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------
Serial number: C3xxxxxTWH
Name: iPhone 5
ModelCode: iphone_5
Group1: iPhone
Group2:
Generation: 7
Machine Model: iPhone5,1
Model introduced: 2012
Production year: 2012
Production week: 32 (August)
CPU speed: 1.3GHz
Family name: Become a pro user to see this information. (sorry)
Screen size: 4 inch
Screen resolution: 1136x640 pixels
Colour: White
Capacity: 32GB
Factory: C3 (China)
External link: Technical specifications by apple-history.com
External link: Repair guide by iFixit
Uitbreidingen: Uitbreidingsmogelijkheden van dit apparaat
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wi-fi chip manufacture: 68:96:7B by Apple
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I hope this issue get's resolved by apple.I called Apple Care (the netherlands) today, and the guy on the phone didn't know about this issue.
Maybe anyone else can help, ofr if you want me to post info I am glad to do so.
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Oct 3, 2012 3:02 AM in response to tobifsby Zanga,Got my 3rd iPhone 5 just now
Serial number: **********WG
Name: iPhone 5
ModelCode: iphone_5
Model Number: MD299
Group1: iPhone
Group2:
Generation: 7
Machine Model: iPhone5,1
Model introduced: 2012
Production year: 2012
Production week: 37 (September)
CPU speed: 1.3GHz
Screen size: 4 inch
Screen resolution: 1136x640 pixels
Colour: Black
Capacity: 32GB
Factory: C3 (China)
And the chip is:
54:26:96:03:35:2C produced by Apple....
I'll test it when I'll be home from work as I don't have wifi here but I already know the result....:( I'm frustrated.
At this time I wait for the fix or I'll be changing it at the first occasion I'll have to get to an apple store in order to check what chip I'll be getting (the nearest from me is at 200km distance...)
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Oct 3, 2012 3:17 AM in response to tobifsby V_77,Can an Admin please modify my post from Oct 3, 2012 2:40 AM, and partially blind out the serial number? If forgot to do this myself and now i can't modify my post anymore.