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My first iPhone lockup today and reception issue
racer8297 07-27-2007 01:08
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My first iPhone lockup today and reception issue
I've had my iPhone for 11 days today. Today was the first day that I went on a business trip with it. It was a 2 1/2 hour drive each way so I downloaded an audio book. I set off on my trip and started listening to the book. After about 2 hours I started to get phone calls. So, the book fades out and I take the phone call. No problem. I finish the call and the book comes back on. Great! About 10 minutes later I get another call. While I am on that call another call came. I switched back and forth, no problem. I hung up from the last call and quit the audio book by holding the home button until it closed. I went to make call, no problem. After that call I went to make another call but guess what! The phone was totally locked up. I pushed the home button for more than 10 seconds, no response. I tried the sleep button, no response. So, I had to push the sleep and home button at the same time to reboot the phone. After it restarted, it worked normally.
The other issue was the reception. I was in NYC. I notice that on some side street, even though the signal meter show 4 or 5 bars, the person that I am talking to becomes totally garbled. They can hear me fine but I cannot understand a work that they are saying.
Just thought I'd share my observations of the day
BIGMERF 07-27-2007 01:18
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guess ya cant multitask to much..lol.. reception in nyc is funny. sometimes im ok and sometimes im not..may be its the buidings, polution, etc..lol
racer8297 07-27-2007 01:53
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I guess my point is that this is a really slick phone but it certainly has some anomalies that need fixing. I can have better conversations on $49.00 phones than this $500-$600 phone. Something is just wrong with that scenario.
I sure hope that they can fix these things with software/firware updates. Or I'm going to be pissed! Right now my inclination is to return this phone (which is my second, BTW) before the 14 days and wait and see if they fix these bugs.
jameskk 07-27-2007 01:53
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Originally Posted by racer8297
I've had my iPhone for 11 days today. Today was the first day that I went on a business trip with it. It was a 2 1/2 hour drive each way so I downloaded an audio book. I set off on my trip and started listening to the book. After about 2 hours I started to get phone calls. So, the book fades out and I take the phone call. No problem. I finish the call and the book comes back on. Great! About 10 minutes later I get another call. While I am on that call another call came. I switched back and forth, no problem. I hung up from the last call and quit the audio book by holding the home button until it closed. I went to make call, no problem. After that call I went to make another call but guess what! The phone was totally locked up. I pushed the home button for more than 10 seconds, no response. I tried the sleep button, no response. So, I had to push the sleep and home button at the same time to reboot the phone. After it restarted, it worked normally.
The other issue was the reception. I was in NYC. I notice that on some side street, even though the signal meter show 4 or 5 bars, the person that I am talking to becomes totally garbled. They can hear me fine but I cannot understand a work that they are saying.
Just thought I'd share my observations of the day
I would not close applications by holding the home button unless the app is locked up. you said you used this method to close an app for no reason. this forces the app to shutdown and can cause memory leaks (at least it does on OS X when you force quit an app).
ragweed 07-27-2007 02:09
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Originally Posted by jameskk
I would not close applications by holding the home button unless the app is locked up. you said you used this method to close an app for no reason. this forces the app to shutdown and can cause memory leaks (at least it does on OS X when you force quit an app).
How else would you close an application other than pushing the home button? Or are you differentiating between pushing vs holding?
ferniesp 07-27-2007 02:30
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Originally Posted by racer8297
I guess my point is that this is a really slick phone but it certainly has some anomalies that need fixing. I can have better conversations on $49.00 phones than this $500-$600 phone. Something is just wrong with that scenario.
I sure hope that they can fix these things with software/firware updates. Or I'm going to be pissed! Right now my inclination is to return this phone (which is my second, BTW) before the 14 days and wait and see if they fix these bugs.
I get the exact same thing and I have had 4 of these phones. I live in Southern Cal where my signal is solid!!!! On the freeway today, total garble with the AT&T tech on the phone. I duplicated this with an Apple tech. They having nothing to say about as they are perplexed. There is no doubt in my mind that the Iphone is subpar as a phone when moving around. If I am in my office or somewhere stationary, the garble is not as bad. I have searched many an online review and the garble talk and volume are very common complaints. In no way will I keep this phone if there is not a fix. I have to have a phone that is consistantly solid while driiving.
If this comes to pass, I will sell my 8 gig to anyone in here for $600.00 shipped. Lets hope it doesn't come to this.
ferniesp 07-27-2007 05:54
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Am I missing something here? There are tons of online reviews that talk about the low volume, garble and ambient noise. Are people in this forum so convinced that this Iphone does not have these problems? Don't get me wrong, I love the darn thing when it's working well. The problem I have is that I don't know if I can depend on it for consistant calls. Even in this forum, people start to talk about these problems only to be shot down with the idea that we are deaf and that the Iphone is pefectly fine when it comes to call quality.