Necronic
Staff member
My iphone has always been a pretty shitty phone, but tonight it hit an all time low, and I think its just going to get worse. The question is, do I yell at AT&T or Apple?
Here's whats going on. I have always had the dropped calls and signal zeroing that the iPhone is famous for (and apple blames on AT&T, which is bullshit because I have never seen this with another AT&T phone i have had), and generally pretty lousy/slow edge network speed. Hell I'm lucky if I can get 5 bars most of the time.
Tonight though was different. I call my brother, and notice that I don't hear a ring (that's kind of normal too), then look at the phone and notice that I'm actually connected with him. I hit speaker and I can hear him. Seems my ear speaker is out. Oh well, must be a glitch. I hang up so I can call him back.
I try to call him back and get a call failed (also pretty common). I try and wait out the signal zero glitch and then see my phone is stuck on searching, then just goes to no signal. This is the heart of Houston, there is a signal.
So I restart my phone. Nothing. Restart it again. Nothing. Reset my network connection. Nothing. Fuck it, I need to talk to him, I call him on skype from my computer. As soon as he picks up, I notice that I have bars, halleluja! For some reason I only have 2, but whatever.
I call him, still no sound from the earpiece. I grab my headphones and plug them in so I don't have to talk over the shitty speakerphone. This hangs up on him....
I call him back. As his phone is ringing a song from my ipod starts playing. I can hear him talking and this song playing. I hang up on him. The song keeps playing.
I call him back. No song this time. I get across the quick little thing I needed to tell him, then unplug my headphone to see if earpiece works. Phone hangs up on him.
I have been having severe memory leak issues with the phone for a while now, but I have never had anything as ridiculous as this. Tommorow I plan on going to yell at someone, but I can't figure out who to blame. I'm pretty sure this is something wrong with the phone itself. I have had AT&T for years and have never really had an issue.
But I fucking hate going to the apple store. When you bring a product in with a real problem they spend more time explaining to you how it isn't really their fault than in actually fixing the problem. Fuck it, I want to go tear someone a new asshole.
PS I actually like my phone, for all its faults.
Here's whats going on. I have always had the dropped calls and signal zeroing that the iPhone is famous for (and apple blames on AT&T, which is bullshit because I have never seen this with another AT&T phone i have had), and generally pretty lousy/slow edge network speed. Hell I'm lucky if I can get 5 bars most of the time.
Tonight though was different. I call my brother, and notice that I don't hear a ring (that's kind of normal too), then look at the phone and notice that I'm actually connected with him. I hit speaker and I can hear him. Seems my ear speaker is out. Oh well, must be a glitch. I hang up so I can call him back.
I try to call him back and get a call failed (also pretty common). I try and wait out the signal zero glitch and then see my phone is stuck on searching, then just goes to no signal. This is the heart of Houston, there is a signal.
So I restart my phone. Nothing. Restart it again. Nothing. Reset my network connection. Nothing. Fuck it, I need to talk to him, I call him on skype from my computer. As soon as he picks up, I notice that I have bars, halleluja! For some reason I only have 2, but whatever.
I call him, still no sound from the earpiece. I grab my headphones and plug them in so I don't have to talk over the shitty speakerphone. This hangs up on him....
I call him back. As his phone is ringing a song from my ipod starts playing. I can hear him talking and this song playing. I hang up on him. The song keeps playing.
I call him back. No song this time. I get across the quick little thing I needed to tell him, then unplug my headphone to see if earpiece works. Phone hangs up on him.
I have been having severe memory leak issues with the phone for a while now, but I have never had anything as ridiculous as this. Tommorow I plan on going to yell at someone, but I can't figure out who to blame. I'm pretty sure this is something wrong with the phone itself. I have had AT&T for years and have never really had an issue.
But I fucking hate going to the apple store. When you bring a product in with a real problem they spend more time explaining to you how it isn't really their fault than in actually fixing the problem. Fuck it, I want to go tear someone a new asshole.
PS I actually like my phone, for all its faults.
