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iOS 8.0.1 has just killed my cellular connectivity

planelydesigned said:
I can confirm that this works:

IF YOU UPGRADED TO 8.0.1 AND CELL SERVICE IS BROKEN:

Go to ipswdownloader.com and download the iOS IPSW for 8.0 for your respective model.

Go to iTunes and Option-Click "Check for Update" – Select the downloaded 8.0 IPSW and update the phone. It will revert back to 8.0 and cell + touchID will work. You will not need to backup & redownload all your stuff - it works like a normal upgrade.
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I can also confirm this works. I'm back up and running on 8.0, no data loss. It's as if I never updated to 8.0.1.

For Windows users that is 'shift-click "Check for Update"', btw.
 
Trebuin said:
That's what I thought should happen. If I were working with apple, I'd simply post 8.0 as 8.0.1.1 and post (revert to 8.0) in the change log. That would make this the easiest.
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Would be a little odd to have an 8.0.1.1...

8.0.2 would probably be best.
 
Trebuin said:
That's what I thought should happen. If I were working with apple, I'd simply post 8.0 as 8.0.1.1 and post (revert to 8.0) in the change log. That would make this the easiest.
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You would thinks so until this is all fixed. Many of us do not have access to computers. Grrrrr!
 
No joke, if android wan't the alternative and this happened to me. I might consider jumping ship. And that says a lot, being how deep I am in apple ecosystem.

I understand small bugs, but this is nothing short of "your fired" kinda stuff. Especially when it affects millions of people. Apple, you better blow my mind with future products! This doesn't make me feel good about the future of Apple just saying. I feel bad for the people affected. Where is the quality control?
 
TheGdog said:
No joke, if android wan't the alternative and this happened to me. I might consider jumping ship. And that says a lot, being how deep I am in apple ecosystem.

I understand small bugs, but this is nothing short of "your fired" kinda stuff. Especially when it affects millions of people. Apple, you better blow my mind with future products! This doesn't make me feel good about the future of Apple just saying. I feel bad for the people affected. Where is the quality control?
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In their defense, for me anyways, nothing catastrophic happened. I didn't lose any data. I was just without cell service and touch-ID for awhile.

But I see your point as well.

Ah well, **** happens.
 
TheGdog said:
No joke, if android wan't the alternative and this happened to me. I might consider jumping ship. And that says a lot, being how deep I am in apple ecosystem.

I understand small bugs, but this is nothing short of "your fired" kinda stuff. Especially when it affects millions of people. Apple, you better blow my mind with future products! This doesn't make me feel good about the future of Apple just saying. I feel bad for the people affected. Where is the quality control?
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I like someone's quote from earlier:
Apple broke their flagship product.

Apple really needs a larger pool of beta testers who know what they're doing.
 
I'm just foreseeing the future...

but if anything goes wrong with :apple: Pay... I'm sure people will be calling it BillGate
 
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powerstrokin said:
I can also confirm this works. I'm back up and running on 8.0, no data loss. It's as if I never updated to 8.0.1.

For Windows users that is 'shift-click "Check for Update"', btw.
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Yup. did this on Windows and worked perfectly. 'Upgraded' me from 8.0.1 to 8.0, no restore required and fixed both issues.

I DO want the fixes from 8.0.1 (especially the 3rd party keyboard bugs), but upon re-release, I'll wait to see how things go before diving in.
 
batting1000 said:
Apple doesn't go that far though. When there was a major WiFi Bug in the iOS 4.2 GM, they pulled it and fixed it a new GM build labeled as 4.2.1 and that went on to be the public version.
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Whew, I thought you were going to say I need seconds and milliseconds on my version numbering.
 
Heads are going to roll at Apple HQ for this...and Tim Cook just gave them thanksgiving off too. Lol
 
Jman13 said:
Yup. did this on Windows and worked perfectly. 'Upgraded' me from 8.0.1 to 8.0, no restore required and fixed both issues.

I DO want the fixes from 8.0.1 (especially the 3rd party keyboard bugs), but upon re-release, I'll wait to see how things go before diving in.
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Yep and I didn't do any backups or anything while on 8.0.1, I'm seeing some places say to do one... but you won't be able to restore from that anyways once you go back to 8.0 right? Either way, I didn't do one and it never asked me to restore from one. Just booted back up into 8.0 no problems.

I did update the iPad (cellular model) to 8.0.1 first, and it's working fine.
 
Ok I did the restore via iTunes it worked but now where I used to have 5 bars for reception I now have 1-2... :mad:
 
cmjars said:
Ok I did the restore via iTunes it worked but now where I used to have 5 bars for reception I now have 1-2... :mad:
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Better than 'No Service' though right?

You might just wait a minute, your carrier settings may need to be refreshed.

Or you can attempt to manually update them by using your carriers dialer code.

For Sprint it's ##873283#

Don't know about others.
 
TheGdog said:
No joke, if android wan't the alternative and this happened to me. I might consider jumping ship. And that says a lot, being how deep I am in apple ecosystem.

I understand small bugs, but this is nothing short of "your fired" kinda stuff. Especially when it affects millions of people. Apple, you better blow my mind with future products! This doesn't make me feel good about the future of Apple just saying. I feel bad for the people affected. Where is the quality control?
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Someone definitely needs to be fired! No data loss, but my phone is mostly unusable for most of the workday at this point.
 
I can't restore. No matter how many times I click restore the button is unresponsive. Now my phone has lost wifi. This is crazy.
 
I typically jump on these updates as soon as they are available. I slept in today and the first news I read about it was that 8.0.1 was giving people problems. So I didn't even have time to install it on my iPhone 6 Plus thankfully. Now unfortunately I will wait on future updates until others have tried it first and have reported back.

I think we heard that 8.0.1 was released to carriers about a month ago for testing, but I guess that didn't include the iPhone 6 since it was just released this past Friday?

This kind of screw-up is going to make people paranoid of updating software which could be especially bad if there is a big security update that needs to be applied.
 
darkfiber said:
I typically jump on these updates as soon as they are available. I slept in today and the first news I read about it was that 8.0.1 was giving people problems. So I didn't even have time to install it on my iPhone 6 Plus thankfully. Now unfortunately I will wait on future updates until others have tried it first and have reported back.

I think we heard that 8.0.1 was released to carriers about a month ago for testing, but I guess that didn't include the iPhone 6 since it was just released this past Friday?

This kind of screw-up is going to make people paranoid of updating software which could be especially bad if there is a big security update that needs to be applied.
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Typical beta pool mistake (and programmer mistake). Don't assume all hardware behaves the same.
 
Too bad the fix can't be done from the phone itself and over WiFi, or a simple patch or something released asap. Going to have no cell service now for another 4 hours.
 
Thanks to all those with the downgrade tips. I was back on 8.0 just in time to make my train!
 
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