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iOS 4.0.1 Being Released Today?

I notice is only for Iphone 4, I have a 3GS and was specting some new stuff for it but i think I will have to wait a little longer. 😎
 
I got fed up this AM and took my phone into the Apple store. I barely described what was happening and the "Genius" had a new phone out already and replaced mine on the spot no arguments. So far back at home unable to reproduce the dropped calls. Very happy at this point. Also applying the 4.0.1 update as I type this.
 
applied the update. lower bars are bigger. bouncing bars still happening here 🙁 My 4 has 1 bar when my 3gs has 3-4 bars (steady). I don't get it. Was hoping this update solved that problem but it didn't.
 
jamespa66 said:
I got fed up this AM and took my phone into the Apple store. I barely described what was happening and the "Genius" had a new phone out already and replaced mine on the spot no arguments. So far back at home unable to reproduce the dropped calls. Very happy at this point. Also applying the 4.0.1 update as I type this.
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Have you noticed receiving more bars and better reception in places that you would have one or none bars before?

The reason I ask is because my 3GS had 3-4 bars at my house all the time regardless of what I was doing. I never had a dropped call and my reception and 3G connection was great.

Now my iPhone 4 is all over the board from 4 bars before I make a call down to 1 bar when the call connects to the other person. This leads to occasionally dropping the call or I don't even receive a call when someone is calling me. This happens even if I'm holding the phone or it's sitting on my desk while using the speaker phone. My 3GS never had this issue. I'm not furious, just upset that I thought I paid for a quality piece of hardware.
 
Deuterium said:
Have you noticed receiving more bars and better reception in places that you would have one or none bars before?

The reason I ask is because my 3GS had 3-4 bars at my house all the time regardless of what I was doing. I never had a dropped call and my reception and 3G connection was great.

Now my iPhone 4 is all over the board from 4 bars before I make a call down to 1 bar when the call connects to the other person. This leads to occasionally dropping the call or I don't even receive a call when someone is calling me. This happens even if I'm holding the phone or it's sitting on my desk while using the speaker phone. My 3GS never had this issue. I'm not furious, just upset that I thought I paid for a quality piece of hardware.
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Well right back to where i started after patching to 4.0.1 and restoring my data. Never had a dropped/missed call in my house with my 3G S, always had full signal, closest tower is only quarter a mile away in line of sight. Now I'm lucky if I get 2 bars, most calls I receive go straight to VM, longest call I've been able to keep is 30 secs before call fails. 3G data is unusable. My iPad has full 3G signal and fast in the same location. This was on both my original 4 phone and the replacement today. Never had problems like this with previous iPhones from iPhone 1 on up through 3G S. A couple Blackberry's on AT&T always worked flawless same location. Wife's iPhone 4 is exhibiting the same problems as mine in her hands. Not sure how Steve can sight this as a perception problem, while in the Apple store replacing mine, 5 other people before and after me where all there for the same problem and all walked out with a replaced phone. Followed up with one of the others that was in line with me and hers is still doing the same thing as well.
 
Apple Fail!

Updated to 4.01. Instead of text and calls failing with no bars, they now fail with a slightly different 1 bar. If I continue to hold my phone the EXACT SAME WAY that I held my original iPhone for 3 years, the bars will now disappear and change to "searching..." I never got the "searching" showing in place of bars before the update.

Holy Epic Fail, Jobs! My "perception" just got worse. Steve better have something earth-shaking to say tomorrow.

I'm getting closer and closer to making the drive to the Apple store for a refund. I'm not getting stuck with a lemon for two years. 😡
 
jamespa66 said:
Well right back to where i started after patching to 4.0.1 and restoring my data. Never had a dropped/missed call in my house with my 3G S, always had full signal, closest tower is only quarter a mile away in line of sight. Now I'm lucky if I get 2 bars, most calls I receive go straight to VM, longest call I've been able to keep is 30 secs before call fails. 3G data is unusable. My iPad has full 3G signal and fast in the same location. This was on both my original 4 phone and the replacement today. Never had problems like this with previous iPhones from iPhone 1 on up through 3G S. A couple Blackberry's on AT&T always worked flawless same location. Wife's iPhone 4 is exhibiting the same problems as mine in her hands. Not sure how Steve can sight this as a perception problem, while in the Apple store replacing mine, 5 other people before and after me where all there for the same problem and all walked out with a replaced phone. Followed up with one of the others that was in line with me and hers is still doing the same thing as well.
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It's extremely frustrating and I can see we both agree with that.

I was under the impression that the iPhone 4 was out in the wild being field tested long before it's actual release to the public. This 'issue' was never discovered or common amongst the tested iPhone 4s? I find that very hard to believe.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow around 10 am PST.
 
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