iPhone 6 no service 8.0.2 Vodafone UK

Thanks Peter, I am seriously considering moving to Three too.

Just had my call from Apple who could run the diagnostic tests over the phone which was handy as I'm working far too many hours!

It LOOKS like the issue is the third party keyboard I'd installed (TouchPal) they could see it clashing with the system so I've deleted that for 24 hours and they're going to call me back tomorrow, if it doesn't happen in that time then it might be the cause so 4G is turned back on and I wait...

Ah you didn't mention, that seems a lot of 3rd party keyboards are causing issues ,seems they didn't get them right before rushing to release with iOS8

Lets hope is sorts the issue

Nah, it wasn't the third party keyboard as it happened again after I've deleted it.

Apple called me again and transferred me to a senior technical person but after 15 minutes with really awful hold music I gave up.

Will do a few more tests and see if I can fit in a trip to the Apple store at the weekend. The problem with the issue being so intermittent is that I could go in they could run tests and find what they *think* is the issue, and then have to come away and test something for another 24 hours, and then go back. Oh well.

Ah, thanks, hadn't thought of taking screenshots, I just get irritated and turn it off and on straight away. Will remember to do that, it's only happening once or twice a day so is very slow to pin down. Let me know if you find the reason. Thanks

Have read this with interest as had this exact problem. Phone would randomly lose service and putting into and out of Airplane mode would not restore it, only switching off and on. Apple, deleted all my data, restored the software and eventually replaced the handset, the carrier (Vodafone) also replaced the sim. The problem occurred about every 2 days, but was as quick as 5 minutes and as long as 7 days. Since I am now convinced it is unlikely to be the hardware I watched the phone one day and where I was had an intermittent 4G signal, i.e. the phone would switch between 4G and 3G every so often, while I was using the phone it dropped the data connection and then a minute or so later went to No Service again. Having now switched off 4G I haven't had the problem for 4 days now and counting... A bit of a pain but at least the phone keeps working. Vodafone have checked my 4G settings and seems ok so can only assume that it is a problem with the iPhone software on the 6 as my daughters do not experience the problem on their iPhone 5S's. So awaiting Apple to fix it and hoping that if they waste their money replacing phones unnecessarily they will have an incentive to do so! Interestingly when I swapped it in an Apple store they told me it was telling them not to swap the handset but they did as AppleCare telephone support had already recorded that they would.

And I forgot to add that the problem did only start to occur after I switched the phone to a 4G service a month or so after purchase. Credit to my wife for working that out!

I've heard from friends on the inside that O2 and Vodafone were about to rebuild their networks and share the UK as one physical network (I don't know if this is still true). If so, there could be positives and negatives to both O2 and Vodafone in the near future. A new physical access network will have teething troubles. If they alter their existing 2G networks then even voice calls could get tricky to make in congested areas if they've decided to "fully realise the synergies of cost savings" possible by amalgamating their networks together. I gather Vodafone will manage one side of the UK and O2 would manage the other.

Could be worth a "wait and see" on these two for now.

edit: sounds like they're actually extending their networks in a joint fashion to help coverage - 17,500 extra Base stations.

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/our-responsibilities/our-network/

vodafone state it doesn't alter their existing spectrum, etc so I guess this would be a 3G / 4G coverage exercise. Could be that Vodafone or O2 are a good bet!

Have had mine running with 4G switched off except when I needed it and phone has not had an issue for 3 weeks. Switched 4G back on yesterday to see if problem re-occurs, will post result.

http://blog.vodafone.co.uk/2014/08/06/voice-over-4g/

relevant, perhaps.

Same issue for me. Only restarting phone fixes it. I'm also on Vodafone 4G with iPhone 6 (Brighton area). iOS 8.1.2. It didn't seem to happen when I as up north for Xmas, maybe once. Feels like a iOS / 4G bug to me.

Phil

Exactly the same here. Vodafone 4g contract on iPhone 6. Apple are totally unaware of any problem - was with a 'Genius' yesterday and they replaced the phone (I hadn't found this thread at that point). Seems like the next battle is to make sure Vodafone are aware so they can do something about it...

After 11 days of having 4G switched back on all the time, have only had one minor glitch where the phone lost data only and this was restored by switching in and out of Airplane mode so different to usual problem. I know there were Vodafone issues around my house, one of the locations I had the problem, so maybe there were at work. I recon this is some sort of problem with the network that the phone can't handle. So both carrier and Apple need to do anything as I believe the carrier shouldn't be able to throw anything at the phone that causes it to lose signal until switched off and on.

Reading\Bracknell area

Vodafone

ios 8.1.2