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Gone back to my iphone 4 from the 4s
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For clarification I don't know if he's with AT&T, I know I mentioned them, but I was just using them as an example.
hes not complaining about the signal, hes complaining about the option to turn off 3g. read it again.
Don't just tell us. Tell Apple:
www.apple.com/feedback/
Tim Cook has also continued the tradition of occasionally replying to e-mails. Let him know, as well. I'm sure he's getting bombarded with battery-related messages, but if they get enough complaints about the toggle, they'll put it back.
Emailed cook yesterday,no reply.Im living in ireland no microcells,no at&t ......no ******* all.Meteor is the name of the carrier here.We do have 5 bars of 2g service in >80% of the country though so thats why its annoying when you see your phone saying no service.
Have you called Meteor and told them how your coverage is? I doubt emailing Cook is going to solve anything....
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Yeah as i said meteor have 5 bars of 2gand full 3g in the cities ,i dont think an email from me is going to get the to put up new 3g masts outside my door.
I thought that's the same everywhere...thought 3G can't be switched off on the 4s?
That was not what i ment. I think it is worth a try to call Meteor and talk to them. The more complaints about coverage in your area, the more a chance of some solution...
But hey, good lucky..
You're right. It's not. You'd have better luck contacting your provider, not the phone manufacturer if you wanted to have better coverage in your area.
Yeah I was wrong on that. I've a 4 and my girlfriend has a 4s. I thought she still had the option on hers but she doesn't.
I hate this feature too. I used Edge a lot in certain parts on NY (Williamsburg/Brooklyn), because the Edge network works a lot better than 3G for some reason.
Now, with my 4S, I am stuck on 3G with very low signal strength, that I get failed calls all the time, and the battery gets drained even faster. I liked being able to put on Edge, because I would go from 1-2 bars on 3G, to 5 bars on Edge, and my battery would not suffer.
Even when service strength isn't an issue, I would put my phone on Edge just to conserve battery when it was running low... again, I can no longer do this.
I think it was a disaster to remove that feature. What I want to know is if everyone who hates this "new" issue, just comes on here to write about it, but doesn't send apple any feedback about it? There are viable reasons to put it back... and I really think Apple should.
Now, with my 4S, I am stuck on 3G with very low signal strength, that I get failed calls all the time, and the battery gets drained even faster. I liked being able to put on Edge, because I would go from 1-2 bars on 3G, to 5 bars on Edge, and my battery would not suffer.
Even when service strength isn't an issue, I would put my phone on Edge just to conserve battery when it was running low... again, I can no longer do this.
I think it was a disaster to remove that feature. What I want to know is if everyone who hates this "new" issue, just comes on here to write about it, but doesn't send apple any feedback about it? There are viable reasons to put it back... and I really think Apple should.
If I remember correctly, the 3G toggle was removed in one of the last beta builds of ios 5 (or possibly the GM). This is not specific to the iPhone 4s, it is an ios 5 "feature". From what I remember, I lost the toggle on my old 3gs as well when that build was pushed out.
It is shame they removed the 3G toggle switch to cater to the CDMA iPhones.
I always had it off along with Edge if I wasn't using them. And yes, it helped my battery life. I guess this is why even the original iPhone had better battery life than the iPhone 3G back in the 3.0 days. The iPhone 2G had no 3G chip which meant it wouldn't be searching for a 3G signal in the background like the iPhone 3G/3Gs did. They added the toggle switch in 4.0, but a shame they took it out for GSM users in 5.0.
Only answer to getting the toggle switch back is to jailbreak and use SBSettings.
I always had it off along with Edge if I wasn't using them. And yes, it helped my battery life. I guess this is why even the original iPhone had better battery life than the iPhone 3G back in the 3.0 days. The iPhone 2G had no 3G chip which meant it wouldn't be searching for a 3G signal in the background like the iPhone 3G/3Gs did. They added the toggle switch in 4.0, but a shame they took it out for GSM users in 5.0.
Only answer to getting the toggle switch back is to jailbreak and use SBSettings.
Not sure about that as I definitely still have the 3G toggle on my Iphone 4 running ios5.
It's not an iOS 5 issue. The iPhone 4 can have the option to turn off 3G but that is a carrier option. What you probably saw was that the early betas ignored the carrier option when it should not have. But the option for carriers to disable turning off 3G existed before iOS 5.
However, on the 4S it is NEVER present. Some have speculated that the radio can not selectively shut off just 3G. Whether there is a workaround that Apple can do via software, I don't know.
This is what Apple is states:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4203
Michael
I'm wondering if the visibility of that toggle may be something the cell companies have control over now then.... I remember seeing a post with a number of people complaining about the 3G toggle vanishing close to the end of the beta versions. I know my 3gs had it vanish. I'm on AT&T here.
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And there it is. I stand corrected. Thank you. Maybe carriers weren't exercising their ability to restrict that as much prior to ios 5 (which made it look alot like an ios 5 related change).
I also wonder why they removed the 3G toggle. I would have preferred that they left it in there. (It's not really doing any harm). Sometimes AT&T's network only works on 2G in some areas, but the phone will try to connect to the nonexistant 3G network.
Point one finger at me,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJZvRgZiO8
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