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Apple Addresses iPhone Signal Strength Display in iOS 4.0.1, iPad Wi-Fi in iOS 3.2.1

Proximity Sensor???

Enough about the bars... It's doing what it was suppose to do. PLEASE, someone tell us about the proximity sensor! Before this upgrade, the screen would sometimes come on during a call because the phone thought it was taken away from your ear... When the screen came on it could touch your cheek or mouth and the "end call" button accidentally ENDS the call....

SO, someone tell us about this proximity sensor. Does the screen stay off when you make a call and how far away until it comes on again? My calls were all ended due to this issue, rather than a lost signal and I'm in MA, USA.
 
Here are some screenshots. i have a 16GB White iPhone 3GS just so you all know. Heres what i do. I delete my back up from my Mac. then I end all the apps that are open in the app tray. Then I hold down the home and sleep button to do a hard reset. Then I sync it to iTunes once more. This is so the backup isn't corrupted, and its as fresh as can be. Then I eject the iPhone from iTunes, and put it into DFU mode, and perform a restore. This way nothing is on it. Then I restore it from backup. Much longer process, but its better that clicking the update button and doing that. When a major4.x update comes out, I will do a DFU restore and set it up as a new iPhone.
 

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Down to 3 bars

I have always had 5 bars on all my iPhones...now it's showing 3 and no more. I dont like the way bars look though....
 
WeegieMac said:
Read the release notes on here and on iTunes when you click "Check For Update".

They never said they were fixing the 3G being buggy. This is the problem on here, people having expectations of things that were never going to occur.

The 3G is old, it's dated, old hardware cannot keep up with the latest software ... it's the nature of technology.

But assuming, or expecting, somehow that an update for the signal bars (which was made abundantly clear on here over the past 24 hours when the beta was released), would fix your buggy 3G is just way over zealous.
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Read on another forum is has improved the 3g so up yours!
 
iOS 4.0.1 still dropping to 1 bar

I took the bumper off my iPhone with 4.0.1 and it still dropped to 1 bar. Put the bumper back on... back up to 4 bars. Looks like nothing changed but the bar heights.
 
???
The update completely ****ed up my iphone 4.

I went from 5 mbit/s to 0,1 mbit/s in download speed "speedtest app"...

This is at the same place, before and efter 4.0.1.. WTF????
 
jav6454 said:
Warning to potential unlockers/jailbreakers!

DO NOT update! That is always the recomendation the iPhone Dev team makes when a new OS is out. If you want functionailty and the unlock stay at the lowest OS version possible. In this case for iPhone 4 user's 4.0.0
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even on official unlocked iphone 4 ???
 
I give up... You win Steve Jobs....

Tell us what you will tomorrow, if there is a chance in hell I can return this and get away from the 24 months contract, you bet your buns I'm so going to throw this brick at someones neck and forget I ever owned an iPhone... this has been a nightmare... an expensive nightmare!!!!
 
whitehill76 said:
Trying to be a bit scientific ish about this i have tried out speed test app on this.

Before the update, i could easily get the grip of death to completely kill my 3g signal such that the speed test app would not work at all.

after update speed test is still working - when holding it in the grip of death (!). In fact, i just got my fastest ever download speed on O2 of 2.6meg!!

Can folks give this approach a try. The reason i was using speed test app was that i never trusted Apples excuse of a software error and the app give an independent view. Based on the speed test app results i was close to returning phone and going back to my iphone 3g until a hardware fix came along.

Final observation - the ping/latency remains pants when holding in grip of death
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Performed test. Same results as you.
 
so is this going to make the signa bar show more bars in more places (even when there shouldn't be as many bars) or show less bars in more places ?
being a details freek I wish I could just see a number. 100 = holy freak your gunna get cancer from sitting right on top of our cell tower, 0 = no signal 50 = you gots signal but expect a dropped call at some point.
 
03sho said:
Read on another forum is has improved the 3g so up yours!
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Well those people are talking utter mince, so get it right round you and your old phone.

The update mentions NOTHING about fixing the 3G because there's nothing to fix. The device is old, it handles iOS4 as it does, which is poorly.

When ANY new firmware update is released, the device it's installed on feels faster because it's new firmware, but after a period of use, it settles down again.

So please, don't whinge at me because you've got older hardware.
 
SMS speech bubble overlap when clicking send still isn't fixed :(

Oh well, such cosmetic changes can wait now I know the ugly truth about my phone reception.

Oh but at least my wifi logs in again!
 
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