Apple Claims iPhone OS 2.0.2 3G Fix, Users Mixed

Posted by likeafox24
21 August 2008 @ 9am

I concur with the last quote. The switching does definitely seem to be better. I always have little to no 3G depending on where I am in my apartment, but after 2.0.2, I haven’t had any dropped calls while roaming around my crib.

I think John G needs to calm down. I found the situation frustrating too for the first month or so, but I think we should be a little patient. If you’re not willing to pay the price for being an early-adopter of new technology, then either wait a year after a new product’s introduction, or shut your pie-hole when you experience the predictably frustrating growing pains of innovation.

Posted by FrankMCA
21 August 2008 @ 9am

likeafox24 - you are wrong.

The “early adopter” excuse is just that - an excuse for rushing out a product without adequate testing and quality. The early-adopters should be the BETA testers, who should have found all these issues before it hit the general public.

This is a phone - it’s not a jet pack, or artificial heart, or space shuttle. Also, it’s on it’s second major revision, so I don’t get the whole “early adopter” excuse.

Did it say in the ads or during product registration that you take the risk of early adoption, and the phone may not live up to your normal expectations of a cell phone?

Now, if Apple and AT&T want to pay me or give me a very cheap price for the phone and service until they work out the kinks, sure.

We have paid $300 + $70/month (in the US) for this phone. We don’t pay that kind of money to be told to “calm down”. You said the reader wasn’t willing to pay the price - well, if paying about $2000 for two years of using a cell phone isn’t enough, what is?

Posted by pepemalinus
21 August 2008 @ 10am

I would tend to be on Likeafox’s side but I wouldn’t call 3G a new technology! iPhone 3G users are early adopters for Apple… not for 3G.

Posted by John G3208
21 August 2008 @ 11am

I would agree with likeafox24 if I had jumped to buy the original I phone. I waited almost two years only to learn an improved version was coming just a few months later. I decided to upgrade with no complaints about paying up for the new features but fully expected them to work out of the gate. I don’t consider this a new product. The pie-hole comment was a nice touch.

Posted by climbbike1
21 August 2008 @ 6pm

I’m unable to use 3G at all now after the upgrade. Almost all my calls were dropped and I received no texts or voice mails. Switching back to Edge and everything is fine. Something doesn’t seem right here . . .

Posted by jalessi
22 August 2008 @ 7am

Not even close for me. It seems as though the problems have been getting worse, but started getting worse (at least for me) just before the 2.0.2 update was available. I am in the Philadelphia/Wilmington area. It is really bad. 50% of the time I get nothing - nada. Calls are dropping too. Both AT&T and Apple are so tight lipped, trying to cover their rear ends - I wonder if they are even communicating effectively with each other. Here come the lawsuits - and for once - deservedly so in my opinion.

I would bet it is a combination of increased, unexpected load on AT&T network and Apples inabilities. Both companies are at fault. It is a well known fact that iPhone users consume more data. AT&T should know that. But I wonder. Also with Apple being so secretive about new products, how could this have been tested properly. I mean there would have had to be thousands (at least) in the wild to properly test. But they did not show up anywhere. Perhaps Steve just drove around Cupertino with the iPhone 3G in his car, counting bars.

This is sad.

Posted by man290663
22 August 2008 @ 8am

I would put most people I know in the IMPROVED Category:-

My experience with the 5 people who have the iphone (in the UK.) the 2.0.2 update went well but in order to get it to fully function the phone needs a reset after install and then the 3G being turned off then back on again (I power off in between). It then has better signal (same as my 3G samsung) and switches seamlessly between 3G and GSM.

Only 1 person I know has had problems but they chose to jailbreak their phone and use Cydia whereas the rest of us use the FileMagnet App.

This Update seems to work after a reset and 3G/GSM toggling and then works well in the UK (eastern side) at least!

Posted by deathlock2012
22 August 2008 @ 8am

i don’t know what people are bitching and sueing apple for i’ve never had any problem with the conectivity of my phone with ANY !!!!! 3g network i live in an edge network cell but i work in a 3g network cell my phone has no problem transfering from 3g to edge or back maybe people should just learn how the device works before going out and making idiotic complains and law suit it’s not apples fault some people are just to plain and stupid for such an advanced mobile platform i have 10 friend who have the iphone and of all none have complianed about there phones ?!?!?!?! i have to different wifi networks in my house for various reasons going back and forth between one and the other i ‘ve never had any problems with the phone itself but rather the routers wich i have to reset every now and then the new update v.2.0.2 seems to me like it only made an already impressive device into something even better wifi signal is stronger than it was befor wich it couldn’t get any better but some how it did

Posted by raja_b1
24 August 2008 @ 2pm

I am getting sort of better 3G reception after the recent update.
But I am getting a bandwidth of around 700 - 800 kbps, probably because I am at 6000+ feet.

The only problem I am seeing is when the 3G goes really weak it does not switch immediately to Edge and if I am using a bandwidth intensive application like “Simplify” or “GPS Tracker” or “PC Mobilizr” then the complete application hangs up and the iPhone Freezes causing me to ReStart.

So as of now i am not using these applications when I am moving, else 3G reception indeed has improved to be a little better.