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iPhone 4s not receiving texts, dropping signal

BJB Productions

BJB Productions

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Nov 10, 2008
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Alright I thought I'd just try here before calling up ATT or Apple support. Apple will just say reset the phone and ATT will probably have no answers.

Short and sweet: My phone does not receive most text messages unless I ask a certain friend to text me at which point his text gets delivered along with a flood of other texts that are hours old. It seems to happen after I've been out of cell range (i.e underground at my office) and then when I reconnect to the network, (while it eventually reconnects), it does not send me my pending texts until it's forced to.

Also, randomly even with full bars my phone will lose signal and signal is very weak.

Thoughts? I'm thinking it's a phone issue and not ATT.
 
BJB Productions said:
Alright I thought I'd just try here before calling up ATT or Apple support. Apple will just say reset the phone and ATT will probably have no answers.

Short and sweet: My phone does not receive most text messages unless I ask a certain friend to text me at which point his text gets delivered along with a flood of other texts that are hours old. It seems to happen after I've been out of cell range (i.e underground at my office) and then when I reconnect to the network, (while it eventually reconnects), it does not send me my pending texts until it's forced to.

Also, randomly even with full bars my phone will lose signal and signal is very weak.

Thoughts? I'm thinking it's a phone issue and not ATT.
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is your phone jailbroken?
 
You didn't mention if this is a new phone or just a new problem. Is your cellular data turned on in settings? If so then try to reset your network settings yet?
(Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings)

Also, do you still have this problem when connected to wifi?
 
iceterminal said:
You didn't mention if this is a new phone or just a new problem. Is your cellular data turned on in settings? If so then try to reset your network settings yet?
(Settings->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings)

Also, do you still have this problem when connected to wifi?
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This is an old phone, new problem. I just did a network reset. We'll see if it works.

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Okay, i did the reset and it seems to be working now actually. However, wifi is not connect and it was before. I wonder if it's possibly related to wifi.
 
BJB Productions said:
This is an old phone, new problem. I just did a network reset. We'll see if it works.

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Okay, i did the reset and it seems to be working now actually. However, wifi is not connect and it was before. I wonder if it's possibly related to wifi.
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Do you have it set for your wifi to attempt to connect automatically? If so, it should ask you to log into it. If not, you have to add it manually.
 
iceterminal said:
Do you have it set for your wifi to attempt to connect automatically? If so, it should ask you to log into it. If not, you have to add it manually.
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Right now I have it to ask me to join networks first. I've kept wifi off for most of the day and it's being doing alright, though the signal has been spotty. Just now though it also shut itself down, then revived itself for no reason at all.
 
BJB Productions said:
Right now I have it to ask me to join networks first. I've kept wifi off for most of the day and it's being doing alright, though the signal has been spotty. Just now though it also shut itself down, then revived itself for no reason at all.
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I've had mine do that in the past too. Kinda weird. But it doesn't do it much, so I don't pay it attention. Heck, MS Windows does that on a regular basis and they say its one of the features. :D
 
i had issues with my txts not sending for a few days and called up at&t got past the first customer service rep and to a tech who basically had me turn off the phone while they reset the towers i was communicating with or something along those lines and everything is peachy now.
 
i had the same problem with the iPhone i bought on the launch day. the Signals were dropping randomly. if someone called me it said cell is switched off where as i had full signal bars. i was unable to send the text messages. but the data plan used to work fine. i tried resetting network settings. restoring bla bla everything. in the end i sent it back to apple and they gave me a new one. and then no problem what so ever.
 
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