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iOS 8.0.2 on iPhone 4S crashes WiFi network

Question:

Has anyone seen problems with their WiFi network associated with iOS 8.0.2?

Background:

I installed 8.0.2 on my iPhone4S and it appears to crash my entire home WiFi. I have 4 iOS devices in the house: iPhone 5, IPad, Apple TV and iPhone 4S. Only the 4S has IOS8.0.2. Since I installed it this morning my WiFi has been continuously crashing, making it impossible for the 4 Windows laptops in our house to stay connected. I left the house for 2 hours and things went back to normal. When I returned, the network immediately crashed again. I turned off WiFi on the 4S and power-cycled the router. The network came back up. When I restarted WiFi on the 4S, it crashed. Turned off the 4s's WiFi again and reset the router. Everything has been fine now for 30 minutes. I have Frontier Communications FIOS with a MI424WR-GEN3I router. Throughout all of the outages, the wired/Ethernet functionality of the router has worked fine and I have been able to access the Internet via Ethernet.

iPhone 4S, iOS 8, iOS 8.0.2

Posted on Sep 28, 2014 3:26 PM

33 replies

Oct 21, 2014 4:27 AM in response to Briansyddall

For me 8.1 worked. Of course I had to solve the problem of how to access wifi when my phone wouldn't talk to my network. I need a new laptop, was thinking apple; not so sure now after the corporate ostrich response to our collective problem.

Oct 21, 2014 8:54 AM in response to Splinterville

Now I have egg on my face. Worked for a while, now Doesn't. Doesn't crash the wifi network anymore but phone won't connect to the network. Now I understand the term CRAPPLE!

Oct 21, 2014 7:54 PM in response to Splinterville

...Geez ... I bought a "very good" used unlocked 4s on eBay back on Oct 2 ... it arrived with iOS 8 installed ... AT&T folks told me not to load that SW when I went in to move my SIM from an Android phone to the iPhone ... when the saw it was already loaded they were amazed that it would even start up ... but it seemed fine until I got home and tried to set-up my WiFi ... all kinds of problems ... which led to upgrade to 8.01 and then to 8.02 ... all the while hoping to see some fixes ... but things went from not so good to terribly bad ... Bluetooth was off .. and the option to start it was greyed out ( but the little rotating gear continues to run constantly - can't stop that ) ... similarly the WiFi option was off and and was likewise greyed out and inaccessible ... then messaging was no longer accessible ... and to top it all off the phone now discharges in 2-3 hours ... even when powered off ... kind of scary ... but on Mon the 20th I was able to download iOS 8.1 to my Windows XP iTunes (took almost 6 GB to do that - downloads a huge file and then has to extract it, before installing it -- and instead of getting rid of the mess it makes, it puts the no longer needed files in the recycle bin taking up more space -- took me 6 hours to get thru all of that .... and all for naught ... still nothing works ... tried resetting networking ... resetting everything ... useless ... even drove 10 miles to a Starbucks to get a different WiFi ... but nothing works ... I have an iPad Air with 8.0 installed ... mostly OK ... some APPS struggle, but that is probably the APP developer not quite up to speed .... It seems crazy that Apple lets these kind of PR nightmares occur ... a simple solution might be to allow users to download and install older iOS versions until fiixes can be made ... WHY ... WHY ???

I am a rather large Apple stockholder ... and would hate to see class-action lawsuits ... but it may come to that !!!

iOS 8.0.2 on iPhone 4S crashes WiFi network