Comments on: Crazy EDGE Outage

By: jwdoom

jwdoom — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:32:15 +0000

I’m having big problems with EDGE in Portland, OR. Last week it was totally down for a few days, it’s pretty spotty now. I don’t restart it very often, but I do turn Airplane Mode on and back off. Sometimes my iPhone reconnects, sometimes it doesn’t.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:35:24 +0000

Had some spotty cell service last week, but its working fine now. But, no ‘internet’ ability whatsoever. This is in the Portland, OR. metro area.

By: ray

ray — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:05:10 +0000

I get good cell service. i can make and recv calls. but my edge is completely down. Im in lone tree colorado. its been down since yesterday and ATT keeps telling me its my hard ware. but when i get to my appartment or a different zip code edge works fine. They want me to get a new phone through apple but screw that! i just bought this phone in april and all apple will do is give me a remanufactured one. Seems silly for them to give me a phone they fixed even though i paid full price for a brand new one. if apple wanted to retain a customer they would eat the cost of giving me a brand new one. screw apple.

By: Gunther Dinsberg

Gunther Dinsberg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:56:07 +0000

no probs in Lenox Mass

By: MoBurkhardt

MoBurkhardt — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:37:10 +0000

@ david m
I am experiencing the same issue, although in europe, sweden. After like half an hour of calling the call will just drop sometimes.

This is especially annoying when in line at a hotline:
“your number one in the cue, your number…duuud, duuud.”
Such call dropping might be standard in the USA but in europe this is unheard of, and I suspect it has something to do with the anysim crack…

By: David M

David M — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:26:27 +0000

Has anyone experienced calls loosing reception over time? I will be talking to someone (sitting at my house) and over a period of time (varies) the call will loose signal until it finally drops! Which could be a part of this issue in the article.

By: mikeg

mikeg — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:51:14 +0000

NYC has been a little spotty the past few days especially on Saturday.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:56:33 +0000

Good eyes Bill – it is an Agent 18 Eco Shield. It is a bit pricey, but well worth it. It has protected mine wonderfully from several drops. I highly recommend it.

I’d also recommend the anti-glare film – great for keeping the everyday dust and grime off the surface.

Good catch Peter – the post has been updated.

By: nok

nok — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:46:07 +0000

i live in the Midwest and i’m glad i haven’t purchased this object du jour yet. i do get good reception with my cheap at+t phone so until i can trust the new tech i’ll wait on paying a premium for it.

By: Stephanie Guertin

Stephanie Guertin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:58:04 +0000

I blame AT&T. Their service is pants and has been for a while. (My average call length, for instance? 37 seconds before the phone either hangs up or reboots itself outright.) I’m not buying an iPhone until I can have one on a better network, thanks.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:04:43 +0000

I live in NYC and service has been bad here too. in the middle of my office i just lose reception. Turning the phone off and then on again brings it back so that was a good tip. But for a $400 phone and the “World’s Largest Network” I shouldn’t have to restart my phone to make a phone call

By: devin

devin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:35:31 +0000

ahh yes, the agent 18 case. i actually bought a clear one (apparently not eco-friendly enough to get the “ecoshield” name, but same exact case) and was actually not very happy about the fit and quality so i returned it and bought a griffin “iclear”. much better case for the money, IMO, but i have since gone back to no case at all. they all allow too much dust and dirt to get in and ends up scratching and looking like crap. i just hope i don’t drop it and break the screen again, cause next time they promised not to replace it for free. =X

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:20:41 +0000

AT&T’s service was going NUTS here in west Tennesee. I visited an AT&T store and the guy basically told me the system was all screwed up and they knew about. That was yesterday. iPhone has been fine since then.

By: devin

devin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:34:34 +0000

no problems here in utah. i would also like to know what kind of case you guys are using…

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:37:16 +0000

No problems out here in rural Oregon. It is actually pretty speedy. The case is a AGENT 18 EcoShield

Simple and slides in and out of your pocket nicely. A little pricey though.

bill

By: Ray Marotta

Ray Marotta — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:18:16 +0000

Josh,

I live on the east coast on Long Island and cell service has been spotty for the last two weeks, A call to AT&T Customer service told me that they were having “Network Issues” and were working on the issue,
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They also recommended when this does happen (Loss of service – to power the iPhone off and on),

Hope this helps….

;; Ray