My 7+ AT&T began showing "no service" about an hour after I got it friday 🙁 4G (but no LTE and couldnt access data) was on and off sporadically for the rest of friday. Woke up saturday to "no service," took it to AT&T got a new sim, worked for about 15 minutes. Spoke with apple numerous times over the weekend, they had me try all sorts of things...we conference called AT&T a couple times, restored network settings, restored from itunes, nobody knows whats wrong with it. AT&T thinks its a hardware issue, Apple advisors say they escalated it so now "their engineers are working on it" Yesterday I put in for an express replacement, and nobody seems to be able to tell me when I will actually be receiving the new one, just that they assure me it will be as soon as possible. And every single one of them made sure I was aware that were back-ordered...which isnt a good sign. So now ive got a $956 hold for god knows how long....
Im pretty pissed about this whole situation. This is only my second iphone, but I had greater expectations for apple I guess. I honestly told everybody on friday that I was sure it would get taken care of "this is apple we're talking about" Man, was I wrong. You would think when you send out thousands of phones in one day you would expect some to be defective, and would have adequate replacements for such a problem.
And to top it all off, Im reading all weekend about people getting free gift cards and cases, because their phones were delayed....some by a day.... I asked an advisor about possibly getting reimbursed for the tempered glass I put on my phone as soon as I took it out of the box, and his first response was that they dont replace third-party products...I told him I only need a replacement because the phone they sent me didnt work, and I dont want to take this one and slap it on my new one....am I wrong?