iOS 7.0.3 Constant Problems

Heat_Wave

Has anyone else had a problem with this update?

Really regret doing this update. iMessage works infrequently and I can't get coverage majority of the time (even when 3G is present or if I'm connected to wifi). It's a nightmare.

I contacted Three and they ran me through a few steps over the phone which worked for only an hour or two. Then they told me to contact Apple as it was a problem which a lot of people were having as a result of this update. Apple told me to reset all settings on my phone, iMessage then worked. Now a day later it's gone again, can't use iMessage at all and coverage is in and out constantly.

mad m

Do you have an iPhone 4s? Are you able to turn on your wifi?

Heat_Wave

mad m wrote: »

Do you have an iPhone 4s? Are you able to turn on your wifi?

I have the iPhone 4.

I can connect to wifi and it shows full strength bars yet it won't open a page.

Have you had this problem?

Migworks

Heat_Wave wrote: »

I have the iPhone 4.

I can connect to wifi and it shows full strength bars yet it won't open a page.

Have you had this problem?

Wife's 4S doing the same. Already sent off to apple only for them to find no fault, only for it to be acting up again less than a week later. Thing is, your trying to make a 4 yr old device run new software, go figure! Wish we could wipe phone clean and down load last if the IOS 6 that was great! I'm sending this back to apple once again!

guil

The iPhone 4 is only a little over 3 years old.

Cee-Jay-Cee

guil wrote: »

The iPhone 4 is only a little over 3 years old.

The technology is over 4 years old.

mel123

Ive got an iphone 4, and since I did the upgrade, its so slow. Infact its that slow I'm thinking of getting rid and moving over to the dark side (Samsung). The internet is the worst, like just opening the home page before I put in anything to search. Defo has thought me a lesson for going forward - if its not broken dont fix it!!!!

Heat_Wave

I have now realised that when connected to wifi I can use iMessage. But when I lose that wifi connection it sends as SMS, even with 3G present.

I don't even know what more I can do. As a previous poster said, apple Support already reset the phone and it worked, for a day. Don't know what else they can do now. Fed up.

Hobbes

Go to General Settings -> Reset -> Reset all Settings (this should not erase your device). It appears to fix a lot of crashes and other issues. You should only have to do it once though.

Heat_Wave

Hobbes wrote: »

Go to General Settings -> Reset -> Reset all Settings (this should not erase your device). It appears to fix a lot of crashes and other issues. You should only have to do it once though.

I've done this about 3/4 times. Works for a few hours then nada.

Both Apple Support and Three have now suggested I back-up my iPhone to iTunes and do a complete 'iOS software restore' setting my iPhone back to the beginning.

Has anyone any experience of having done this?

Migworks

Heat_Wave wrote: »

I've done this about 3/4 times. Works for a few hours then nada.

Both Apple Support and Three have now suggested I back-up my iPhone to iTunes and do a complete 'iOS software restore' setting my iPhone back to the beginning.

Has anyone any experience of having done this?

In the middle of doing that now!!! Have to wait till the morning now to get the wife's SIM card to get the phone up and running as new phone to see if the glitches are still there.
Read great article that states the 4S doesn't have the onboard ram to allow ios7 to run properly, the phone overheats from working too hard and the heat shuts down wifi and causes other things to go wrong!!! And apple said they did extensive testing !!! I said it before, you can't upload fresh software onto a 4 yr old device. It's like trying to upload windows 8 onto a 4 yr old laptop-ain't goons work is it!

TheBoffin

Ever since they introduce multipath network in iOS7 (3G and Wifi failover) my 3G signal is gone awful. At first i suspected it was the mobile network but since tried a HTC which worked without any issue, once back on the iphone, same ole crud signal.

Heat_Wave

Migworks wrote: »

In the middle of doing that now!!! Have to wait till the morning now to get the wife's SIM card to get the phone up and running as new phone to see if the glitches are still there.
Read great article that states the 4S doesn't have the onboard ram to allow ios7 to run properly, the phone overheats from working too hard and the heat shuts down wifi and causes other things to go wrong!!! And apple said they did extensive testing !!! I said it before, you can't upload fresh software onto a 4 yr old device. It's like trying to upload windows 8 onto a 4 yr old laptop-ain't goons work is it!

Well how did it go?

I wonder if it would be worth my while upgrading to the iphone 5?

It costs about €120 plus I'll be back on a contract which I don't particularly like.

Green Hornet

I'm raging about it too. My 4 was perfect and now its junk.,...half convinced its on purpose to make me upgrade. Must try that reset.

Edit: dramatic improvement! Keypad much faster and the home button now works.....browsing back to normal speed too. Cheers!

Cee-Jay-Cee

My 4 was such a good phone until ios7 which ruined it, crap childish graphics, slow internet, dropping 3G signal and having to toggle airplane mode to get it back again and shorter battery life so I went and done the only thing open to me and bought a 5S...which is probably what Apple wanted anyway.

irishturkey

iPad 3rd gen, iOS 7 has ruined my opinion of apple. Diabolical battery performance, apps lagging, just ruined!! They want me to do a full restore to fix it. I want to beat an apple employee with the iPad.

Heat_Wave

irishturkey wrote: »

iPad 3rd gen, iOS 7 has ruined my opinion of apple. Diabolical battery performance, apps lagging, just ruined!! They want me to do a full restore to fix it. I want to beat an apple employee with the iPad.

This actually worked for me, finally.

I tried everything before that and nada. However 'Apple Online Support' talked me through the whole restore and now everything is back to normal.

Still a bit p*ssed that I even had to do it given the price I spent on the phone, I also lost all my notes which contained a lot of important info.

I would advise the restore though, just make sure when you go to Settings > iCloud, everything is switched on as this is where I lost my notes.

Best of luck

peteeeed

i have an iphone 5 and updated, everything was fine except it put 'do not disturb' on and i started missing IMPORTANT calls . had to google the problem and saw that this had happened to quite a few people .

guil

peteeeed wrote: »

i have an iphone 5 and updated, everything was fine except it put 'do not disturb' on and i started missing IMPORTANT calls . had to google the problem and saw that this had happened to quite a few people .

Did you not notice the moon icon on the status bar and check to see what it was?

peteeeed

guil wrote: »

Did you not notice the moon icon on the status bar and check to see what it was?

no because before that i had a scheduled do not disturb between 00:00 and 08:00 set before the update

Migworks

Heat_Wave wrote: »

Well how did it go?

I wonder if it would be worth my while upgrading to the iphone 5?

It costs about €120 plus I'll be back on a contract which I don't particularly like.

Just about to post the wife's 4s back to apple and the bloody wifi started working again! So mad, it's intermittent and you only have a few days to post back bet it will work fine for another few days then will break again. What's the point in sending it back while its fine (like last time) they will only send it back saying no fault found. Can't believe apple have screwed this up so badly.