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full bars and 3g signal but not loading?

So this is what I was wondering: With all these issues with the network, do you guys think that Apple actually tweaked or fixed the issue in their upcoming batches of iPhone 4s ? I am asking you guys because I am thinking about returning my iPhone 4 and wait for couple of weeks and then get one.
Thanks
 
zizo79 said:
So this is what I was wondering: With all these issues with the network, do you guys think that Apple actually tweaked or fixed the issue in their upcoming batches of iPhone 4s ? I am asking you guys because I am thinking about returning my iPhone 4 and wait for couple of weeks and then get one.
Thanks
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The only reason I would rush to AT&T or Apple would be to return it and buy something else. I don't see any purpose to exchanging it now, there will most likely be no difference between what you have now and what they'll give you. I plan on waiting another 3 weeks before I even check and when I do, it will be with AT&T, not Apple. All things considered, the people at AT&T have been a magnitude friendlier, more helpful and forthcoming about ANYTHING than anyone at Apple has been.
 
I've had this issue the last day or two. Honestly I am kind of getting tired of all of these problems popping up. I know tech launches are often plagued with bugs but it seems like something new screws up every other day and I don't recall the 3GS launch having this many problems last year.

I am really considering returning my i4 and giving AT&T the boot. The only thing stopping me is the fact that the iPhone is better than all of the other smartphones on the market (in my opinion), but what's the point if the damn thing isn't even usable half the time?
 
x-evil-x said:
ive been having this problem a lot since i got the phone. if im out especially in building where it shows good signal it take it forever to load data. text goes through fine but data takes forever. much slower than my 3gs why is this? is it my phone or are others getting this?
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Having the exact same problem....full bars...no 3G connectivity. My buddy standing right next to me on an iPhone 3GS with iOS4 having the SAME issue...another person next to us that is has NOT upgraded their 3GS to iOS4 is just fine. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but it definitely points to a software issue with iOS4. Again...3 different phones with only 1 not upgraded to iOS4 and the one NOT upgraded works just fine in the same location. WTF! FIX IT NOW APPLE! This crap I've been reading about the software selecting the "less busy" tower vs the closest one in proximity is a load of bull kaka! What freaking "genius" decided that would be a good idea...obviously not! FIX IT!!!!:mad::mad::mad:
 
I was having the same issue, even with my wife's 3GS sitting right next to me working perfectly.

One thing I noticed was that it only occured when my iPhone 4 was showing full signal. I'm no stranger to RF, radio, antenna and electronics design, and have run into situations where I've needed attenuators inline to reduce the incoming signal and avoid overdriving a receiver.

At first I thought that might be the culprit, with the new antenna system providing better signal, because honeslty for me the 3G issues had only come up at full signal.

As it happens I wound up calling AT&T about the issue while thinking about this and they wanted to try re-provision my SIM before escalating my call.

Short version: A short wait and a reboot later I've had no issues with 3G since, at full signal or at one bar. I am seeing 1.3-2.0Mbs/down with about 1Mbs/upstream.

This was an issue from the 2nd day I had the iPhone 4 (didn't get to use it on 3G on the first), until I made the call. And it's been fine for a couple of days now (I've been fairly OCD about testing it).

Hope this is useful ... it worked for me.
 
Torq said:
I was having the same issue, even with my wife's 3GS sitting right next to me working perfectly.

One thing I noticed was that it only occured when my iPhone 4 was showing full signal. I'm no stranger to RF, radio, antenna and electronics design, and have run into situations where I've needed attenuators inline to reduce the incoming signal and avoid overdriving a receiver.

At first I thought that might be the culprit, with the new antenna system providing better signal, because honeslty for me the 3G issues had only come up at full signal.

As it happens I wound up calling AT&T about the issue while thinking about this and they wanted to try re-provision my SIM before escalating my call.

Short version: A short wait and a reboot later I've had no issues with 3G since, at full signal or at one bar. I am seeing 1.3-2.0Mbs/down with about 1Mbs/upstream.

This was an issue from the 2nd day I had the iPhone 4 (didn't get to use it on 3G on the first), until I made the call. And it's been fine for a couple of days now (I've been fairly OCD about testing it).

Hope this is useful ... it worked for me.
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Thanks for the tip....I'll give anything a try at this point. Good idea about calling AT&T. I still think it's the freaking software but we'll see. Thanks again.
 
technopimp said:
Wait, so what am I supposed to ask AT&T to do? Re-provision the SIM?
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Friendly little bump for the thread since I am curious about this as well

edit - well, just gave AT&T a call and they were absolutely no help.

The first person I spoke to said re-provisioning wouldn't do anything since the SIM is already activated and noted that there were no 3G problems in my area. She passed me on to someone else, who said that there was a nationwide 3G problem since last Tuesday and that they've been working on it and there is no estimate of when it would be done. Then three seconds later she said if I keep having the problem to call Apple because it might be a hardware issue. Right after saying that there was a nationwide 3G problem. Idiots.
 
Stankonia said:
Friendly little bump for the thread since I am curious about this as well

edit - well, just gave AT&T a call and they were absolutely no help.

The first person I spoke to said re-provisioning wouldn't do anything since the SIM is already activated and noted that there were no 3G problems in my area. She passed me on to someone else, who said that there was a nationwide 3G problem since last Tuesday and that they've been working on it and there is no estimate of when it would be done. Then three seconds later she said if I keep having the problem to call Apple because it might be a hardware issue. Right after saying that there was a nationwide 3G problem. Idiots.
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I really hate the cross ups when talking to CSRs .... its like you keep dialing to you hear what you hope to hear so you can rest a bit better.
 
I just wanted to throw a little update here. I hate this issue from about Monday - Friday. Friday afternoon and still the phone has been working amazingly well on 3G. In all signal areas 0-5 bars I can access 3G and in every case it's been fast.

The only things I did was on Thursday morning call Att and have them reprovision my sim that did nothing at first. Then Thursday night I got a new sim. Again Friday morning same 3G issues, bars but no data getting through.

Then around noon I made a genius bar apt. About 1pm It felt like they flipped a switch, 3G was super fast and like I said it has been since. I have been in the usual area that gave me problems and it's fine.

Oh ya tuesday night I did a full restore and it did nothing.

So honestly I have no idea if this will stick or tomorrow come back. Having working 3G this phone is perfect and I love it lol.
 
Nicely enough, no issue for a couple of days now.

It could be that the holiday weekend has lowered the load on the network substantially - we'll see how things are on Tuesday, but for now, all of the potential of the iPhone 4 is shining through!

:D
 
My speeds have been all over the place. But the weekend has def been better than the weekdays. There is a report in the apple forums that a different style of sim fixed someones issue. Could be chance, who knows. We are waiting for pics of the sim.
 
Updates?

I have not seen this issue since last week sometime.

Any other updates from people that were having this particular issue? Is it still happening for some?
 
I didnt read everything, but I am having a similar problem on my 3GS on iOS 4. I am able to place and receive both calls and texts, but data (both 3G and Edge) are both dead. They worked Saturday all day... Sunday I upgraded, and today was the first day that I had been out of the house. No cellular data.

AND... I cant go back to 3.1.3. Joy. I now have a really expensive dumb phone.

PS: Wife has 3G on 3.1.3... all is well, so it isnt an area of service issue.
 
jcmeyer5 said:
I didnt read everything, but I am having a similar problem on my 3GS on iOS 4. I am able to place and receive both calls and texts, but data (both 3G and Edge) are both dead. They worked Saturday all day... Sunday I upgraded, and today was the first day that I had been out of the house. No cellular data.

AND... I cant go back to 3.1.3. Joy. I now have a really expensive dumb phone.

PS: Wife has 3G on 3.1.3... all is well, so it isnt an area of service issue.
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You can get back to 3.1.3. I upgraded my 3g to ios4 and the battery life was awful so I searched and found a way(howardforums) to go back. Basically you download the 3.1.3 file from the net, and do a restore and select that file. Then you have to download one other basic file to allow you to continue with 3.1.3. Ill try and find the link for you. It was pretty easy.

That all said...I gave my 3g to my wife and the phone is still slow. So I dont know if something was affected by going to 4 but something is still quirky.
 
I'm having the same issue...

But when this happens, I lose the 3G icon - still have full bars - cannot access data and cannot send SMS. I reboot the iPhone and it works fine.

Last night when it happened, I tried switching to airplane mode and then turned it off hoping it would just reconnect - no such luck. It kept saying "searching..."

If it happens again today, I am going to leave it in this state and make a Genius Bar appt.

Damon
 
I gotta say this is not hardware guys..

I posted awhile ago that my problem was fixed. I had the same issue everyone was complaining about.

I replaced my sim, didn't really help. I had ATT reset my phone or whatever, like send it a new signal so it sees the towers - this did nothing.

One afternoon it just worked again, like a switch was flipped. Keep calling ATT its got to be your area.

I had the same thing where people at work had 3GS and they worked fine where mine loaded nothing. Now my 3G works flawless on my Iphone 4.

Its ATT keep bothering them.
 
definitely not hardware.

i have a 3g with ios 4.0 and there are times where my 3g network works fine then it just doesn't work at all. if i switch to edge it'll work though.
when i reboot it seems to work but very hit and miss.

for example it's happening now. :confused:


UPDATE: just popped my sim card out with the phone on then reinserted it and it'd working again.

Also, just did some reading up, try resetting your network settings. general -> reset -> reset network settings.
 
I have this problem as well occasionally. Rebooting the phone always solves it, but WTF! I hate having to reboot it. More the principle of it. 4.1 had better have a lot of solid fixes. I've lost faith in my phone after having to worry about how to hold it, whether the 3G network is working right, etc...
 
dstedman said:
I have this problem as well occasionally. Rebooting the phone always solves it, but WTF! I hate having to reboot it. More the principle of it. 4.1 had better have a lot of solid fixes. I've lost faith in my phone after having to worry about how to hold it, whether the 3G network is working right, etc...
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Exactly. But I dont feel like taking it back...for what? Android is cool but I like how 'polished' the app store is... Hope I dont regret it when it comes out for Verizon.
 
x-evil-x said:
ive been having this problem a lot since i got the phone. if im out especially in building where it shows good signal it take it forever to load data. text goes through fine but data takes forever. much slower than my 3gs why is this? is it my phone or are others getting this?
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Apple has admitted that the bars you're seeing are FALSE. They are artificially inflated to show more bars than in actuality. It is ruse of AT&T and Apple. THAT is why you show such a strong signal, yet have weak/slow DL and UL speeds.
 
IndustrialSpace said:
Apple has admitted that the bars you're seeing are FALSE. They are artificially inflated to show more bars than in actuality. It is ruse of AT&T and Apple. THAT is why you show such a strong signal, yet have weak/slow DL and UL speeds.
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It is not happening only on AT&T. It is happening on various networks in Europe too. I think the reason for this is that iPhone 4 is not interpreting correctly signal changes on some frequency bands and drops the signal completely while it should just adapt to the changes. Hence it affects some users and it is an issue only for a small number.
 
Evgenyy said:
It is not happening only on AT&T. It is happening on various networks in Europe too. I think the reason for this is that iPhone 4 is not interpreting correctly signal changes on some frequency bands and drops the signal completely while it should just adapt to the changes. Hence it affects some users and it is an issue only for a small number.
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even in canada too. and not just the iphone 4. as i said a few posts earlier, my 3g data is having issues also.
 
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