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iPhone OS 4.1 Beta 2 is out (attached ScreenShot)
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As you noted, the issue is from updating and restoring from previous generation backups. If only one person at your company restored from a previous generation backup (as is my interpretation of what you said), then that explains the issue.
You can fix it by doing a factory restore and not restoring a backup, but that's a hard pill to swallow for most people, so a software fix is desired.
Note that I don't have an iP4 and therefore am not completely up-to-date on this issue, and I may be wrong.
UPDATE: As clarified in future posts, I am wrong
Shame there's no proximity fix yet. My fiancé's iPhone's been plagued with it since new. Mine and my friend's were fine until we installed the signal strength meter update, now we keep initiating Facetime calls, muting calls and putting the loudspeaker on.
no i didnt do that and mine was fine till recently. i kept facedailing and ending the call. very annoying
Called my home phone and tested for 5 minutes. Positioned the iPhone on my shoulder and the sensor went off and on repeatedly. I held the sensor next to my inner ear and it started doing the same thing again. It doesn't appear that the update fixed the proximity sensor.
just hold it differently.
Yep you're wrong. I and others have the prox issue with new setup phones. Not restored from previous phones. A reset does seem to help temporarily so there is some hope for a software fix but it also means you can't tell right away if it is fixed or not.
not true.
I setup my phone as a NEW phone- did not restore from a previous backup.
Both the original and replacement iPhone 4 have the proximity sensor problem.
I went to the Genius bar again today. They said they never heard of a proximity sensor problem.
This is getting infuriating. I am over 30 days out from purchase and can't return it even though I complained multiple times and 2 case numbers were opened on this issue.
Idiots. Didn't they see Apple press conference where Jobs himself acknowledged and addressed this issue?
I didn't restore from a backup when I bought my iPhone 4, and I have issues with the proximity sensor. I have also done a factory restore, and that hasn't fixed my phone either.
It gives us developers early access to new and changed APIs, which is the point of a beta.
Please call Apple to report the problem. They use the complaint stats to determine what to fix. Posting here on macrumors isn't going to do much.
I dno what the hells wrong with your phone if its like that for you. My 3GS works so smooth on iOS4. You should get that checked out.
You either are restoring a backup that has some jailbroken remnants in it, or something else is messing up from your backup that you're restoring from.
4.0 on a 3GS is fine (faster actually than 3).
After restore iTunes says my phone is unreadable but iPhoto will see the photos on my phone.
Trying to restore again and see what happens.
Trying to restore again and see what happens.
People with sensor issues...
For the time being, get in the habit of accepting the call and HITTING THE HOME BUTTON... you'll go to your front icon screen and won't have any of the buttons available to accidentally hang up, initiate face time calls, add other calls, place people on mute or hold... none of it. you can always press the sleep/wake button to hang up or go back to the phone screen to use the features if needs be. Sucks to have to use a work around but at least it's an option.
For the time being, get in the habit of accepting the call and HITTING THE HOME BUTTON... you'll go to your front icon screen and won't have any of the buttons available to accidentally hang up, initiate face time calls, add other calls, place people on mute or hold... none of it. you can always press the sleep/wake button to hang up or go back to the phone screen to use the features if needs be. Sucks to have to use a work around but at least it's an option.