Iphone 5 overheating issues

fxit_man said:
It has been active on VC since 6.1, however it has been unstable if you ask me, with frequent No Service issues when the phone attempts to switch from LTE to 3G or vice versa. So I usually recommend to those with No Service issues to disable LTE for the time being.

Vodacom has recently started rolling it out to prepaid users too, in fact it should be active already, however I haven't had the chance to test it out personally yet.
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Oh nice.
LTE is active on all handsets that support it or only iPhone and Samsung?
Sorry, I digress - to the OP, let us know how you get on?
 
Tander said:
Can't comment on that as I am on MTN, which is no better, really.

By the way - is LTE now active on the iPhone 5 after the 6.1.3 update?
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I spoke to MTN this last weekend and it is active on the iphone after the carrier update but you need to get a new sim card, which apparently are only coming out end of this month.
 
Really?

What's the reason for the new sim card?

My friend has an iphone 5 and says LTE working.. he is on MTN?
 
apparently its a 128kb sim. LTE option is there and you can turn it off and on in the settings but it doesn't ever get LTE. If your mate is getting LTE then i am not sure.
 
MaximusZA said:
apparently its a 128kb sim. LTE option is there and you can turn it off and on in the settings but it doesn't ever get LTE. If your mate is getting LTE then i am not sure.
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I used a customer's iPhone 5 the other day - while using it - LTE came up on the screen and I did a quick test - seemed very fast.
 
Here's what I have discovered, using my iphone 5 on cell c at home, the battery will die fast and the phone will get warm. Forcing it to use a vodacom tower with much better signal at home I can go 3 days, never gets warm, tons of usage. My friends phone does the same thing on cell c, forcing it to use vodacom towers all better, the other guy I work with also says his phone gets hot on MTN.

I don't know why there are so many configuration settings and other stuff just so a phone can connect to a network but whatever setup our networks have, they don't work well with iPhones, on vodacom i get the no service bug all the time on all my 5,4 and gf's 4. You just can't win but it seems at least the getting hot bug doesn't happen on the vodacom towers.
 
Thanks for that tip, I will give it a try.

Some people I've spoken to have said that its a software issue with the latest ios release (6.1.3).
 
Ever since the iOs 6.1.3 release, I have not had the "No Service" problem, which I had quite frequently before.

And I am also now seeing LTE in a lot more areas, presumably Vodacom are ratcheting up the rollout.

(Vodacom iPhone 5 64GB)
 
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