iPhone 4G - Apple finally admits poor signal problems
Curiously the BBC also state:
However, there have been few - if any - complaints about older iPhones losing signal strength when held in a certain way.
They clearly haven't been reading my blog about the iPhone 3Gs and poor signal. Judging by the number of hits it gets for people looking for the phrase "iphone 3g no service" I am far from alone.
Hopefully they will now fix it although the explanation of the signal being displayed incorrectly is hardly reassuring. Having even less signal on the iPhone 3Gs is not likely to improve it!!
Rory's blog has a more accurate assessment
It may have trouble making phone calls, but the iPhone's fans are so bewitched by its other capabilities, they seem prepared to ignore that.
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Friday, 2 July 2010
Saturday, 9 January 2010
iPhone 3GS Missed Calls/Phone not ringing/Calls go to Voicemail despite full signal
Further to my post yesterday about the iPhone 3GS calls going to directly to voicemail without the phone ringing despite the phone showing a good signal I have now done some more testing myself to check how this works and why it might be happening. My findings are as follows:
1) If your iPhone is using an app that connects to the internet AND your phone is connected to 2g (o or E symbols) then all calls will go direct to voicemail for the duration of your connection to the web. Once you close the application then the phone will ring again.
2) You may have no knowledge of these calls happening unless the person leaves a message. The iPhone 3Gs does not show any record of the calls being received.
3) If your iPhone is using 3G then you can receive calls as well as using the internet at the same time.
Despite this scenario being denied by O2 iPhone support who should know better (they claimed that a phone call will always interrupt a data call - my testing proves this is not the case) and lots of reports across the web show that EDGE/GPRS connections do not support voice and data at the same time.
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone/no-ring-straight-to-voicemail-8537.html
Other people have also reported this with the iPhone and experienced similar problems with the signal being much worse on the iPhone than other handsets.
http://www.orangeproblems.co.uk/mobiles/viewtopic.php?p=1014#1014
1) If your iPhone is using an app that connects to the internet AND your phone is connected to 2g (o or E symbols) then all calls will go direct to voicemail for the duration of your connection to the web. Once you close the application then the phone will ring again.
2) You may have no knowledge of these calls happening unless the person leaves a message. The iPhone 3Gs does not show any record of the calls being received.
3) If your iPhone is using 3G then you can receive calls as well as using the internet at the same time.
Despite this scenario being denied by O2 iPhone support who should know better (they claimed that a phone call will always interrupt a data call - my testing proves this is not the case) and lots of reports across the web show that EDGE/GPRS connections do not support voice and data at the same time.
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone/no-ring-straight-to-voicemail-8537.html
Other people have also reported this with the iPhone and experienced similar problems with the signal being much worse on the iPhone than other handsets.
http://www.orangeproblems.co.uk/mobiles/viewtopic.php?p=1014#1014
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