iPhone 4 bricked after 7.0.6 update, anyone else have this issue?

After updating to 7.0.6 I can no longer send receive text / imessages. It keeps telling me to log into to my apple acct but then doesn't recognize it. Tells me to check my carrier connection/ sign in to itunes. I play Words and no longer can receive notification when its my turn. Have to open the app to find out. So wish I had not updated. It worked perfectly until I did.!

After updating to 7.0.6 my iPhone 4s does not recognise Wifi anymore. When I try to change that, the phone dies. I've updated the phone again but that doesn't work. When the iPhone dies/blocks, I have to wait half an hour to start all over again. Reset or loading does not work!

So 7.0.6 is no good!

Restart your device by holding the power and home button until the Apple logo appears. No data will be lost due to the restart.

Yeah, i know that trick, but that really did not help.

The latest crash report (I had 5 today!) said it was a bad kernel access caused by BTServer.

You may have to restore as a new device. You will lose everything so backup your device first.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4137

Desperate times call for desperate measures. People many times were touting Apple as having no issues and not needing to resintall the OS because of problems with Microsoft OS. I think these people had rose colored glasses. I work on Windows, Apple and Linux boxes. All have their quirks but what they all have in common is that sometimes the only fix is to start from scratch.

Well, I already did! Twice! And I think I have to wait untill Apple lauches 7.0.6. or 7.1.

I even powered up my old Nokia E71, a disaster to work with nowadays, but very reliable to make phonecalls....

In that case you may want to consider making an appointment at a local Apple store if possible. The personnel in the store may be able to resolve the issue. If not, and your device is truly broken, Apple will not replace under warranty because of a software update as it is impossible to convince Apple the update broke the phone. You may be able to get a replacement, for some money of course. But less than the cost of a new device.

Well sorry, but I don't drive about 250 km to the nearest Apple Store only for a softwareproblem which might be solved with the next update. My iPhone worked well the last 1,5 year. Only after updating this time it went wrong. (or I buy that nice new Swiss blackphone.....)

Thanks for the suggestion anyhow!

buy that nice new swiss phone.

This update killed my phone too. It is in a restore loop as well, when I went to the apple store, there were quite a few others with the same problem. If yours is under warranty they will replace it, otherwise you pay for it.

Sometimes a hardware issue becomes apparent after a software update, and sometimes its pure coincidence. Most peoples updates will have gone well, forums show the small minority that dont unfortumnately. My 5s and my wifes 5c both worked fine for instance, even though thats no good for you, i'm just saying its not all phones and there is always a flurry of these incidents after software updates. Contact Apple and via the help line, if you have an extended warrranty as you say your phone is 1.5 years old. If there is an issue they will ask you to send your phone in, and an exchange can be made if you live to far from your nearest Apple shop possibly. If you are out of warranty then you can do an out of warranty replacement. As to it being a software issue, have you done a DFU mode restore? Hope it works out.

same here with 4s. phone worked perfectly until latest ios update. it is now stuck in DFU mode.

Yes, not suprising though, and I would consider myself to be an innocent bystander who was forced into an update due to a spill on my phone yesterday. When I finally got the phone to turn back on (iPhone 4) I was told by iTunes that I needed to check for an update. Once it found the update (I don't recall it mentioning what version it was updating from), the point is I couldn't do anyting else unless I accepted the offer to update. Horse crap. My phone was fine now it's not.

I updated via a WiFi connection to the 7.0.6 version, and now the phone is in recovery mode. There's a power supply icon with an arrow pointing to the iTunes logo. I plugged into my Mac, loaded iTunes, and my only option appears to be to restore the iPhone, which hasn't worked for some people, I see here. What other options do we have?

How can we back up our data if we can't even get past the restore mode?

I can't get past restore either, and I've never seen the power supply icon with an arrow pointing to the iTunes logo before yesterday. Researching on the net uncovers basically a lot of the same thing like 4 or 5 years ago. Here's a link... I take that back... read this from Gizmodo... http://gizmodo.com/303171/apple-says-unlocked-iphones-will-brick-after-software- update-+-what-does-it-mean Whatever to that, I haven't even read the whole article but the lady with the look on her face and the brick costume can't be good.