iphone 6 cellular reception

Did you receive a new iPhone 6 or was it a replacement unit?

Emounz wrote:

Did you receive a new iPhone 6 or was it a replacement unit?

There would be no way to tell. They are indistinguishable.

That is true but you would know if it was a replacement iPhone as it would come in a white box with no iPhone branding on it 🙂

Emounz wrote:

That is true but you would know if it was a replacement iPhone as it would come in a white box with no iPhone branding on it 🙂

The plain box doesn't tell you if the phone is new or refurbished. Apple reserves a certain number of new phones for warranty replacement when a product is first released. They are, however, not in the retail packaging.

I have the same issue with a Verizon iPhone 6 64GB. I will be getting a replacement soon. I will let everyone know how it goes.

FYI, since 8.0.2 I have not gotten the No Service message in the same locations I was getting it consistently with 8.0.0. I'm not contradicting anyone else's experience, but for me at least, the 8.0.2 update helped (unless AT&T happened to update something on their end at around the same time I updated my phone).

When the guy at the Genius Bar came out with my replacement, it was in a plain brown bag, not a white box. What does that mean?

FYI, it is still working great.

graz160 wrote:

When the guy at the Genius Bar came out with my replacement, it was in a plain brown bag, not a white box. What does that mean?

FYI, it is still working great.

It means they replaced your defective phone with one that works.

so i finally had a chance to get a replacement phone however it still has the same problem! genius told me to update to 8.0.2 and should fix the problem. at least my screen isn't loose anymore, apparently my phone was bent when i received it and that's why my screen was loose! hmm... I've noticed that if you go into settings and enable voice & data LTE (at least on Verizon) the signal drop problem is completely resolved, so some of you may want to try that out, i'm just not sure if using VOLTE uses up your data.

Got a brand new in the box replacement phone for my iPhone 6 today. 64 gb. Had weak signal compared to my 5 - no difference. 2 or 3 bars to my wife's 5 bars. Drops to 1x when hers is fine- yes we are on same Verizon plan. The 6 just does not receive a good signal.

Oh dear - not good that you've deduced that!! I'm in the same situation - waiting for "old" 6 to be collected and get my replacement on Friday - I'll keep you all posted with my progress too. Both the 4s and the 5s in our house had 1 to 2 more bars (blobs) of signal in our house compared with the 6. I really hope this isnt going to be a rubbish Iphone 6 signal issue for all Iphone 6's. If it is, I'm in trouble. Should have stuck with Android. I do have a theory though and I think it is something to do with how quickly the 6 finds the signals and makes the switch between 2g and 3G and vice versa - our house we have 5 bars of 2g and on the 6 just one of 3g. It just gets stuck on the 1 bar 3G and won't make the switch to the 5 bars of 2G, but at the same time calls drop out and I can't send texts when it's on 1 bar. I'm on o2 in UK.

I think there may be something to your theory. I have similar issue with iPhone 6 with Verizon in the U.S. There are some places where I will get 5 bars of LTE all the time with good data connection. Then, there are some areas where I will only get 2 and bad connection when other people with Verizon LTE will get 5. If it's not a hardware problem, then there has to be something about how the iPhone is handling signal in those areas. I just don't know what is different or what it is.

for us Brits - what is LTE and VOLTE - which equates to 3g and 2G (ours is sometimes known and comes up on my phone as gprs) please?

Bang on - I think it's the reconnection speeds that are an issue with the Iphone 6. How can we get Apple to look at this???

LTE is a 4G technology in the U.S., offering broadband speeds for cellular devices. VOLTE just means Voice over LTE, which it uses the LTE band for voice communications instead of 3G.