iPhone's Wi-Fi problems cause heated speculation iPhone users who found their Wi-Fi failing after the last firmware upgrade are starting to identify what went wrong, while some have managed to get Apple to replace iPhones with handsets that have never seen 2.2.1. The damage caused by the upgrade is irreversible, rolling back to a previous version does not fix the problem, …
If idiots who didn't manage to configure their wireless correctly would stop posting in that discussion thread. Probably a good third or more of the posts are due to user error, and then they come back triumphantly claiming the "fix" for everyone is to "turn on WPA on your router" or something asinine like that.
No its sheer desperation, and it works for some items.
Chilling components has been around for years. Got a faulty hard drive? Its worth a try I've had luck getting a clients Accounting database off a dead drive. No they were not a client before the incident (otherwise they would have had backups). The chilling caused the drive elements to contract ( back into tolerance ranges) for ~15 min. ;-)
so my girlfriend has been complaining about her iPhone that it drops a lot of calls, that sometimes when she comes out the train she would have to wait a number of minutes for it to find signal. I suggested her phone needed the update that is available. so last night we set out to update her phone, however 3 times in a row the over 200mb download finished but was corrupted so she gave up, probably because I was pointing and laughing at her about how her iPhone and iTunes sucked (so yeah, I didn't get any last night). however, reading this now is a good thing she didn't get to install it last night.
chort, it's a problem with all the routers and not just the one I set up home. So far the only idiot in this topic is you commenting on something you have no clue what is all about.
Someone must know which files are affecting this to delete/edit them. Apple doesn't care. WE have to find the answer..
It's funny. I didn't upgrade because I couldn't be bothered to jailbreak my device over again for no end user benefit.
Now, engaging tinfoil hat mode for a moment:
Isn't it convenient that a firmware update that breaks iPhones would come out when everyone is speculating about a new hardware revision?
> " I have found that 169.xxx addresses connect but don't offer internet. "
> " 169.xxx addresses work because they send less information before the connection times out "
BWAahhahahaha you friggen' moron, you haven't done yourself any favours by coming over here to draw attention to your stupidity. How desparately stupid and insane do you have to be to claim that your iphone is actually working fine and it's just every single router in the world that suddenly simultaneously broke? Thanks for the laugh!
It is the same thing again something happens to an apple product and what do apple say.....'nothing'. We buy your product apple we want to know what your doing to fix this defect. And if that Wifi chip was throttle back. What was the reason for it. Was it because it started to fail because it got hot...hhhmmm. Maybe someone at Apple have the decency to step up to the line and answer those question... if you've got the b*lls
Kind Regards
Mg-bob
<so last night we set out to update her phone, however 3 times in a row the over 200mb download finished but was corrupted so she gave up, probably because I was pointing and laughing at her about how her iPhone and iTunes sucked (so yeah, I didn't get any last night). however, reading this now is a good thing she didn't get to install it last night.>
and it seems you didn't get a chance to instal it last night either :o)
Isn't that what they used to say about car stereo's when you forgot the security code for it?
I'm guessing that the person who first tried sticking their iPhone in the freezer was panicking after bricking the phone trying to install v3.0, and then trying to revert back to 2.2.1
"chort, it's a problem with all the routers and not just the one I set up home. So far the only idiot in this topic is you commenting on something you have no clue what is all about.
Someone must know which files are affecting this to delete/edit them. Apple doesn't care. WE have to find the answer.."
Iphone works with wireless router before upgrade,
Iphone doesn't work with wireless router after upgrade, hmmm. I wonder what could have caused the problem.
you've found that fiddling with settings and changing all kids of things helps, though at the end of the day this probably just puts you in the "it works when the battery is low" camp.
you say that you think that apple just needs to tell you what files to delete?
Christ, by all means you just take that massive firmware upgrade and delete a few files, change a few lines.
in fact I dare you.
no prizes for guessing how much that could mess up your device.
Just as was the case with the much talked about 3G connection issues (which I was never affected by) this one appears to affect a tiny minority of users. So El Reg now trawls the Apple forums looking for stories based on the random speculation about the problems of a tiny handful of users as evidence that the iPhone is flawed. Definitely a new take on journalism.
FWIW my iPhone3G with 2.2.1 installed has never had any issues with WiFi (or anything else for that matter).
Just had my 16gig 3g iphone replaced for same reason. first the bluetooth started acting up intermittently, not synching to the carkit its been setup for months with. Then wifi started getting worse, where first i could see all wifi networks, then just mine, then i couldnt even connect to mine, finally i couldnt see my, or any other wifi networks. Yes it was on, did all the normal troubleshooting etc. Sent it back to apple after speaking to support, back in 4 days with brand new phone. Wonder how common is this fault?
I don't think it's jsut iphones. I have a iPod Touch and it had done the excat same thing. I know that it's heat related, because first time it happened I couldn't get any wifi signal. 2 hours later I turned it on and it worked for 10 secs. Next day I turned it on and it worked for 5 mins then dropped signal again.
Seems like the chips are overheating. I really hope apple does something for the ones that are out of warrently...it's not our fault!
@Michael Brown -- This problem is real; I updated to iPhone 2.2.1 last week and my WiFi stopped working reliably two days ago.
Your logic is flawed, in that you say it's a small group of people, and yours is fine. Ok, but if a group of iPhones, no matter how small the number in comparison to all iPhones sold, all ended up with fried WiFI boards after the update, how can you say it's _not_ a hardware flaw? There are a lot of variables here -- maybe the people whose iPhones still work on 2.2.1 do not use the WiFi radio as much. Maybe they all are a ticking time bomb.... or, maybe it's just a few that are defective. But they are _still_ defective. If there were reports that possibly 1% of the drivers of the car that you own were finding that the steering wheels suddenly detached while driving at speeds greater than 40mph, would you laugh and say, "well, my car is fine!" That's tempting fate........
Regardless, I can't prove anything, but I know my iPhone "seemed" like it was getting hotter than it used to, just under the Apple logo on the back, after the update. I thought it was just because I was using it more. Then two days ago, Wifi suddenly dropped out. I've now had the exact same symptoms described -- works OK on low battery, works ok for a few minutes out of the freezer. Two different wireless networks. Restored 2.1, but the problem remains. iPhone 1st gen.
Anonymous Coward, sorry for not having english my native language. And what I wrote there is correct. Some routers connect, perhaps because there is no full information or at least show connected. Of course the effect is the same: no internet connection.
I have tried more than 100 different wifi spots and they all give the same error.
What part make you laugh?
I could SWEAR that my Macbook 2,1 Atheros wifi issues were heat related as well... I lose packets like mad on 10.5 if my ambient room temp is anywhere above air-conditioned 75F/24C or lower...
WTF is with wifi and heat issues...can't anyone make a reasonable wifi chipset nowadays?
Under Linux (any driver, madwifi or ath5k) the card just...stops... I feel that OSX10.5 constantly 'resets' the card, which is often the only way I'm able to get it working again under Linux..suspending the laptop and resuming..
Great way to "fix" a problem chipset A****le er Apple
@Jack Sully: I don't doubt that the problem is real for those who are affected by it. However, my point is that all the evidence points to this being something affecting a tiny minority of users. If it were even moderately widespread the Apple forums (and others) would be overflowing with posts about it, and they just aren't. The El Reg story picked up on a handful of people having WiFi issues with their iPhone and reported that as "iPhone WiFi is broken", which is simply not the case. If El Reg scoured the support forums of all IT/tech companies and blew every problem thread that had more than a 100 posts into "product X is broken" there wouldn't be a single 'working' product left.
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