Carl Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I have owned my I-Phone 3GS for 11 months and the signal strength is probably the worse of any mobile I have ever owned. I have now sent it back for repair as I spend a good 60% of the time without signal. Does anyone else have similarly poor signal from there I-Phone. I am on O2. Interestingly enough the loan phone I have is a cheap £20 Nokia that makes calls & texts and its the clearest, strongest signal I have ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevansio Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I'm on O2 on my 3G and never ever have any signal issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham S Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I'm on O2 on my 3G and never ever have any signal issues Same here.. Always good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 same when i had mine, although a friend of mine has had similar issues to you with his 3gS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyRog Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I have signal issues as well, seems to vary from day to day. I can be in the same place with a good signal one day and the next day no signal, I have spoken to O2 several times and they are next to useless and just get me to reboot the phone, which to be honest works, but it's not really solving the long ternm problem, just the immediate one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Make an appointment at an Apple shop 'genius bar', they will take a look at it and swap it out if needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonnyD Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Orange Iphone 3gs and the signal is bad 80% of the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I have an O2 3GS and the signal is fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny g Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Orange iPhone 4, signal in the office isn't great - but it's not on anyone else's phone either. Perfect 3G pretty much everywhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodge Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I couldn't get a signal unless I walked 200 yards from my house with orange. Switched to vodafone with no probs at all now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 I have a 3GS and have owned it since it came out and have never had signal issues. It's on O2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 My old Nokia 6230i always has a stronger signal on the same network (Orange) than my iPhone 2G or iPhone 4 and in performs better in weaker signal areas. But the Nokia is just a phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 My old Nokia 6230i always has a stronger signal on the same network (Orange) than my iPhone 2G or iPhone 4 and in performs better in weaker signal areas. But the Nokia is just a phone. This is what Im starting to think although should this really be the case. I know the I-phone does everything under the sun but surely the most basic function of signal quality should be as good if not better than a standard mobile or is it a case of too much interfearence from all the data streams and info to & from the phone? To me it seems making a mobile do everything it was never designed to do is making great progress but its fundamental & original purpose has seen little or no improvement since its conception...to make a phone call.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 That's about right. Some people are coming full circle carrying basic phones (like my Nokia) and carying an iPad for the fun stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky49 Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Not had a problem with my 3gs and Im with O2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sams Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 i got the 3gs from tmobile about a week after o2 relesed it, never had a problem with it or signal, until i updated it to ios 4.0.1, after this i cant even get signal in peterborough city centre, updated it to 4.0.2 which was supposed to fix the problem, fixed it for about 3 days then is got worse and worse over the next week after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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