I bought two iPhone 5's in December, a white and a black one (as presents for my twins turning 16). Being based in Belgium means I paid the ridiculous unlocked price of over 1.000 USD, per phone (ok, for the 64 GB models).
The black one connected to my airport extreme wifi network within 30 seconds, the white one just didn't do anything. I tried ALL the tips and tricks I could find in this thread and many others, but nothing worked. I finally had it replaced. The new one arrived yesterday and has exactly the same problem.
Now to put things in perspective: I am an Apple user since the 1980's, I have two MacPro's, 3 iMac's, and iPhone 4 and two iPads all merrily connected to the WiFi with no problems, year after year.
So a hardware problem on certain batches of iPhones seems likely? I found another forum in which someone claimed the phones with Apple chips have this problem, the ones with Intel chips don't. I have had no possibility yet of checking if this is true.
But surely Apple must know about this - and so does the press. Why has it not been made into a bigger deal? I am a huge Apple fan, but paying over a thousand dollar for a machine that continues not to work properly has really got me annoyed - and is not much of a present for my daughter (who cannot use her phone subscription as her old larger sim card was deactivated!).
Any further thoughts anyone?
The black one connected to my airport extreme wifi network within 30 seconds, the white one just didn't do anything. I tried ALL the tips and tricks I could find in this thread and many others, but nothing worked. I finally had it replaced. The new one arrived yesterday and has exactly the same problem.
Now to put things in perspective: I am an Apple user since the 1980's, I have two MacPro's, 3 iMac's, and iPhone 4 and two iPads all merrily connected to the WiFi with no problems, year after year.
So a hardware problem on certain batches of iPhones seems likely? I found another forum in which someone claimed the phones with Apple chips have this problem, the ones with Intel chips don't. I have had no possibility yet of checking if this is true.
But surely Apple must know about this - and so does the press. Why has it not been made into a bigger deal? I am a huge Apple fan, but paying over a thousand dollar for a machine that continues not to work properly has really got me annoyed - and is not much of a present for my daughter (who cannot use her phone subscription as her old larger sim card was deactivated!).
Any further thoughts anyone?