No Service? MTN or Vodacom

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Those who got the "No Service" on your iPhone 4 do you have Vodacom or MTN?

I got Vodacom and i am sitting with "No Service" currently, well got my new sim from vodacom today, so will wait and see how it goes.
 
Shirou said:
Those who got the "No Service" on your iPhone 4 do you have Vodacom or MTN?

I got Vodacom and i am sitting with "No Service" currently, well got my new sim from vodacom today, so will wait and see how it goes.
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I am on Vodacom, although since I swithced Auto3G off and my 3G off totally, I dont have any probs.
 
Shirou said:
Those who got the "No Service" on your iPhone 4 do you have Vodacom or MTN?

I got Vodacom and i am sitting with "No Service" currently, well got my new sim from vodacom today, so will wait and see how it goes.
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BUY a COVER/POUCH for your phone to IMPROVE SIGNAL:D
 
Happened to me the first time yesterday after having the iPhone 4 for a few weeks. I went to a place in our building where I don't have reception, so no signal. When I went back to my place, where I usually have great reception, it didn't reconnect. No matter what I did I only regained connection once I rebooted.
 
By turning off 3G, are you basically using only Edge for data transfer?
Because if so..that would seem to be a deal breaker. Browsing the net or dl'ing emails using only Edge would drive me nuts.

G26
 
Anony-mousse said:
Happened to me the first time yesterday after having the iPhone 4 for a few weeks. I went to a place in our building where I don't have reception, so no signal. When I went back to my place, where I usually have great reception, it didn't reconnect. No matter what I did I only regained connection once I rebooted.
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Yes dude, i have the same problem you do.
 
I think it would also be important to mention what iOS you are running. I am currently on 4.1. These problems only started when I upgraded from 4.0.2 (on which I had no problems whatsoever).
 
Yarik11 said:
I think it would also be important to mention what iOS you are running. I am currently on 4.1. These problems only started when I upgraded from 4.0.2 (on which I had no problems whatsoever).
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I am running 4.1 aswell, did not have a test at 4.0.2, because i upgraded to the latest software when i received my iPhone.
 
I am on my second iphone 4,the first one was working fine for about 3 hours and then "No service" came up.I reinstalled iOS,created a micro sim and tried that and nothing so took it back to MTN and they gave me a new one.

Yesterday for the first time I got No service but that was my fault as I was using a jailbroken app from Cydia that did not support my iOS.
 
splinter_watsup said:
I am on my second iphone 4,the first one was working fine for about 3 hours and then "No service" came up.I reinstalled iOS,created a micro sim and tried that and nothing so took it back to MTN and they gave me a new one.

Yesterday for the first time I got No service but that was my fault as I was using a jailbroken app from Cydia that did not support my iOS.
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So you are telling me i need to take my phone in? But i am already after the "7 days" so they will need to send it now for repairs and could take 7 - 14days ;/
 
Shirou said:
So you are telling me i need to take my phone in? But i am already after the "7 days" so they will need to send it now for repairs and could take 7 - 14days ;/
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No this was a hardware problem,yours might just be a software problem and I have got my fingers crossed that it is. Have you jailbroken the devise? If you have remove any apps you installed using cydia and reboot phone.

If you have not do the following:Go to settings-General-Network,in the network tab Turn off "enable 3G" then turn off "cellular Data" then restart the phone.If the problem persists go to Settings->general->reset,in the reset tab click "Reset Network Settings" and confirm and restart the devise,your phone will then grab the info again. This should fix the problem if it doesn't(I know this sounds weird) Put your phone into flight mode and then turn it off,turn it back on and put flight mode off which aparently has helped fix this problem for a few people.

And the last thing you can try is resetting the whole devise,Just Backup your phone with itunes and then reinstall iOS 4.1(I know you on 4.0 but it wont let you do 4.0 again)

If none of this works you will need to take the devise back to the shops :(
 
splinter_watsup said:
No this was a hardware problem,yours might just be a software problem and I have got my fingers crossed that it is. Have you jailbroken the devise? If you have remove any apps you installed using cydia and reboot phone.

If you have not do the following:Go to settings-General-Network,in the network tab Turn off "enable 3G" then turn off "cellular Data" then restart the phone.If the problem persists go to Settings->general->reset,in the reset tab click "Reset Network Settings" and confirm and restart the devise,your phone will then grab the info again. This should fix the problem if it doesn't(I know this sounds weird) Put your phone into flight mode and then turn it off,turn it back on and put flight mode off which aparently has helped fix this problem for a few people.

And the last thing you can try is resetting the whole devise,Just Backup your phone with itunes and then reinstall iOS 4.1(I know you on 4.0 but it wont let you do 4.0 again)

If none of this works you will need to take the devise back to the shops :(
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I have tried everything in the books already :( keeps telling me "no service" and now i will probally take it in tommorrow and wait 7 - 14days for the repairs ;/ this is so BS brand new phone and wait to be repaired.
 
Shirou said:
I have tried everything in the books already :( keeps telling me "no service" and now i will probally take it in tommorrow and wait 7 - 14days for the repairs ;/ this is so BS brand new phone and wait to be repaired.
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Sorry dude,I know how you feel I dropped my 3GS and it was not repairable :(
 
I went to the shop on monday on the last day the 7th when they could still swop the phone, so the guy had a look and told me my sim was incorrectly inserted, and i had a look and there is only one way WTF? So he waisted my day when i could replace my phone with a new one, now i need to take it in for them to send for repairs this morning.
 
Man that sucks :( These reps dont know anything about the apple devises,when I was in the shop getting my iphone replaced I was the one explaining to the clients about iphone and its features.
 
splinter_watsup said:
Man that sucks :( These reps dont know anything about the apple devises,when I was in the shop getting my iphone replaced I was the one explaining to the clients about iphone and its features.
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ya dude same here, i knew more about it than them when i was there.
 
This seems to be a recurring problem.. Coz im on Vodacom Prepaid,i just ported to Vodacom,did a sim swap on a Micro Sim which they gave me and i too have the ' No Service' problem that comes and goes,thankfully its not as frequent and usually lasts for about 20s then i get celluar reception after. I wonder what could be causing this though..
 
Shirou said:
Those who got the "No Service" on your iPhone 4 do you have Vodacom or MTN?

I got Vodacom and i am sitting with "No Service" currently, well got my new sim from vodacom today, so will wait and see how it goes.
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Dude have you tried the sim in another phone. Reason I ask is I had the same issue about 2 weeks ago, did a sim swop which was activated within 2 hrs. Played around with my phone for about 3 hrs without jailbreaking and then no service. Checked all my network settings was fine.

Removed my sim and stuck it into another handset (wtf) no network. Called customer services and they tell me the sim isn't active. I tell them it was active and I used my phone for about 3hrs. After much explaining she tells me something went wrong on the system that's why my sim was deactivated. So they activated it which had me up and running within the next 2hrs. Hope yours is the same issue and you don't have to send your iPhone in.
 
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