LazyWeb: fix my iPhone

[prog]

Wondering if any of you iPhonesters might have an idea what's going on with my toy...

For several days, my iPhone's connectivity via 3G has been so slow as to be functionally useless. Safari often times out before even starting to load a page (and the model page I'm using is www.google.com). Sometimes it gets partway it and craps out, so it doesn't seem a DNS issue or anything. Other internet-using applications work so slowly that the phone usually locks the screen before anything interesting happens.

I was wondering if I maybe knocked its internal antenna loose or something, but phone calls still work fine, so it's probably not that, right?

WiFi works fine. Cycling the phone does not fix this.

This is a hard topic to google, becuase most of the results are about the slow rollout of 3g iphones in july. Frowny.

Edit: I just learned that you can shut off 3G to opt for Edge-only connections, so I tried that. Edge is failing too. :(

Comments

Here, have a dead chicken to wave

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

There was a link recently about some Genius telling a guy to turn Airport Mode on, then off, to fix 3G issues. No idea if it'd be applicable for you.

I usually haunt MacInTouch for answers to this sort of question...their forums are at least organized by topic. :-/

Re: Here, have a dead chicken to wave

[prog.livejournal.com]

That didn't seem to do anything, but thanks. I'll go try Macintouch too.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Get thee to the Apple Store. They'll replace it on the spot if it's a hardware issue. Otherwise you may have to wait for the update this month if it's the same weird slowdown bug affecting other people.

I assume you've reset the thing?

[prog.livejournal.com]

I have yet to mambo down the list of R-words on Apple's troubleshooting page. Will try that later and report back.

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Is your iPhone software up to date? IIRC, they recently released an iPhone software update that "fixes 3G connection issues".

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

there's some buzz that this was a boston-wide thing. I don't know, as I don't have one, but maybe it works now?

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

I was having trouble over the weekend, but I assumed that was because I was in NJ where I get just enough 3G signal for it not to work. But I'm still having trouble today in MA, which makes me nervous.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Are you having as much trouble as me? The vibe I was getting from others was more "gee this seems kind of slow lately" and not "I can't even use this", which is where I am.

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

That last comment was from my iPhone. I was surprised it got out. Now I'm posting from home. I've been getting a ton of timeouts and broken image links over the past several days. It seems to vary over time, sometimes working reasonably well and sometimes completely unuseable. Turning off 3G in NJ helped two weeks ago, but not over Labor Day.

Given the absence of anything resembling a controlled testing environment, it's impossible to determine if anything I can try helps. MacRumors had an article about the iPhone 2.0.2 update, and now I'm wondering if this issue has cropped up after I updated and it was working better before. But that's a step or less above baseless speculation.