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Apple Investigating Verizon iPad 3G Connectivity Issue
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That sounds like a totally different problem.
I doubt it has anything to do with this. The iPads act as if no signal is present. He gets signal, just not an Internet connection.
JAT said:
That sounds like a totally different problem.
I doubt it has anything to do with this. The iPads act as if no signal is present. He gets signal, just not an Internet connection.
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I finally got an iPhone 4. I've had an iPhone from June 29, 2007. I haven't seen an iPhone show an edge signal since the 1st iPhone. I bought the iPhone 4. In the store I got edge. I left the store and had NO signal. I took my hand and held the phone with the tips of my fingers on the sides--- full bars. Grip it normal--- no signal. It is by far the worst antenna system of any cell phone I've ever known. If I didn't know OF the problem I would have certainly returned it as defective. Dumbest idea fir an antenna ever and they knew it when they made it. It's such a problem they can't fix it. Fixing it would be tantamount to admitting there is a real problem. That would open them to losing a class action suit in a big way.
Anyway- love my phone. (with a case). My wife just got a Motorola Atrix. Probably the fastest phone today. Sure is a clunky droid piece of junk that can't even play an embedded QuickTime. I would rather carry around my original iPhone. It's just a better experience.
ten-oak-druid said:
I finally got an iPhone 4. I've had an iPhone from June 29, 2007. I haven't seen an iPhone show an edge signal since the 1st iPhone. I bought the iPhone 4. In the store I got edge. I left the store and had NO signal. I took my hand and held the phone with the tips of my fingers on the sides--- full bars. Grip it normal--- no signal. It is by far the worst antenna system of any cell phone I've ever known. If I didn't know OF the problem I would have certainly returned it as defective. Dumbest idea fir an antenna ever and they knew it when they made it. It's such a problem they can't fix it. Fixing it would be tantamount to admitting there is a real problem. That would open them to losing a class action suit in a big way.
Anyway- love my phone. (with a case). My wife just got a Motorola Atrix. Probably the fastest phone today. Sure is a clunky droid piece of junk that can't even play an embedded QuickTime. I would rather carry around my original iPhone. It's just a better experience.
Well, I started a thread yesterday explaining this problem. I hope it's not a hardware issue!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1133173/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1133173/
Count me in with the "small" group that's having the problem. It's a pain in the ass and Verizon's no help.
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That was more or less my thought; if a reboot seems to fix the issue then it would seem to be a software issue. Hopefully they issue an update soon!
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That was more or less my thought; if a reboot seems to fix the issue then it would seem to be a software issue. Hopefully they issue an update soon!
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So Apple is investigating (and commenting) on an issue that affects a "small amount", but still no word on the backlight bleeding that almost EVERYONE are affected of?
Come on, Apple!
So Apple is investigating (and commenting) on an issue that affects a "small amount", but still no word on the backlight bleeding that almost EVERYONE are affected of?
Come on, Apple!
Same here, but keeping my fingers crossed.
question for all. do you keep 3g on and wifi? or when u use wi-fi do you turn it off.
Oh wow, a iPad 2 crippled by an ancient crappy mobile technology (CDMA2000) - and people are surprised? Mark my words Verizon is going to run the CDMA2000 into the ground and all the fanboys who thought the iPad and iPhone for Verizon will be their salvation will have a quick wake up call. Personally I have no sympathy - cheerlead for a company too lazy to upgrade their network in a timely manner and expect crappy performance as a result.
Absolutely, the "you're holding it wrong" jokes stopped being funny a very long time ago.
Regardless of anything Steve ever says, be it about the iPhone 4 antenna or anything else, you can bet there are some engineers at Apple somewhere looking into a lot of these things - that's what they're paid to do.
Big Time Fail
Verizon iPhone: No data/voice multitasking.
Verizon iPad: No data.
Can't understand why people want a smartphone or smartdevice on such a primitive and slow provider. Smartphones crave speed and multitasking.
Verizon iPhone: No data/voice multitasking.
Verizon iPad: No data.
Can't understand why people want a smartphone or smartdevice on such a primitive and slow provider. Smartphones crave speed and multitasking.
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Ran into this issue with a few of the new iPads at work. It seems to happen around activation, and we haven't had any issues after a single reboot. It happened on mine as well, but it's working fine even as I turn the radio on and off throughout the day
Ran into this issue with a few of the new iPads at work. It seems to happen around activation, and we haven't had any issues after a single reboot. It happened on mine as well, but it's working fine even as I turn the radio on and off throughout the day
There never was a hardware issue with the iPhone. Just because some Jackass found a way to block the antenna on the iPhone does not mean that apple produced an iPhone incapable of connecting to a network properly.
You can do it with nearly any smartphone.
...Now at&t's network reliability? Thats another story.
There never was a hardware issue with the iPhone. Just because some Jackass found a way to block the antenna on the iPhone does not mean that apple produced an iPhone incapable of connecting to a network properly.
You can do it with nearly any smartphone.
...Now at&t's network reliability? Thats another story.
I thought the whole "being able to bridge the antenna with a single point of contact" was the problem and the fact that it was really easy to do.
Ok well its also really easy to throw your phone in the lake but that doesn't mean that apple failed to lake-proof their device. Do you own an iPhone or are you just talking?
Yeh, who holds their phone on the right hand when making a call anyway? That type of action would never happen in the real-world.
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