Fed up... iPhone woes...

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austincolby

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I've posted previously about my increasing frustration with Apple quality. That was tame- I'm about to throw my iPhone at the wall.

Landed in Chicago's O'hare airport this morning. Turned on phone. After 5 minutes, still no att. In the middle of a huge airport. Sat down. Turned off phone. Turned back on. Waited 5 minutes. No att. Turned off phone. Turned back on. Instantly found full bars of 3G. Where did that come from? Where was it before?

Headed into downtown Chicago. On the street. Full bars of 3g. Tried to open a web page. Took 5 minutes to load a simple page. Turned phone off. Turned phone on. Full bars of 3G. Tried to go to yahoo. Took 5 minutes to load the home page.

Ran speedtest. Latency, 5000ms. Download speed, 12kbps. Yes, 12.

Turned off. Turned back on. Same result. Huge latency, 7kbps this time.

This is, unfortunately, nothing new. In fact, I see this kind of thing pretty consistently on the data side. And don't get me started with the voice side- I lose every other call I'm on- I can have full bars, no bars, doesn't make a difference- if I'm talking on the phone more than a few minutes, I WILL lose the call randomly.

I'm frankly sick of this. I've got very new macs with faulty fans, faulty HDD, faulty power systems, faulty wireless cards. My iPhone gets 12kbps with full bars of 3g, and loses every other call for no reason.

Count me out.
 
Weird, I don't think I have ever dropped a call. Not even a single call, and I live just an hour away from Chicago and have spent plenty of time there.
 
austincolby said:
I'm frankly sick of this. I've got very new macs with faulty fans, faulty HDD, faulty power systems, faulty wireless cards. My iPhone gets 12kbps with full bars of 3g, and loses every other call for no reason.

Count me out.
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Frustration is understandable. Have you gone to Apple about this? You could have faulty hardware. If you don't bring it to their attention, and it is a hardware issue, it's not going to get fixed until you visit an Apple store and have them take a look. It could also be a bad SIM card. Getting a new one from AT&T might make a difference.

Bad luck sucks, don't let it control you.
 
Airplane mode works for a reason, and you have some sort of hardware problem, those speeds consistently are just not possible.
 
AlecMyrddyn said:
Frustration is understandable. Have you gone to Apple about this? You could have faulty hardware. If you don't bring it to their attention, and it is a hardware issue, it's not going to get fixed until you visit an Apple store and have them take a look. It could also be a bad SIM card. Getting a new one from AT&T might make a difference.

Bad luck sucks, don't let it control you.
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Why would you do that, it's much more productive to bitch to a bunch of strangers that can't fix your problem
 
My 3G works perfectly - got it 1 month after launch day and have never dropped a call, and have never had less than 2 bars of Service.. I guess i'm a lucky one...but you take care now..
 
I'm in Chicago on business and have had lots of problems here too. I think it's just Chicago.

Do you have problems elsewhere?
 
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