Comments on: Apple Says 2.0.2 Addresses 3G Problems + Gmail Still Kludgy?

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:26:03 +0000

My Gmail account + Exchange account worked fine on my 1st & 2nd 3g iphones, but after trading in with different issues, my 3rd iphone 3g does not connect to Gmail account only Exchange account…this is ridiculous Apple! Why do I keep hoping this thing is going to work properly. I’m losing hope quickly.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:10:03 +0000

I have the 3G 8GB version in toronto and have been unable to retrieve mail (gmail) or access the internet since yesterday.

This is getting ridiculous. I'm hoping this gets fixed, the bb bold is looking quite nice right now.

By: cherryhead25

cherryhead25 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:51:34 +0000

Ok, someone help me out!!!! I thought I was one of the lucky ones but today @ 1:50ish PM 3g died on me. Now I get full bars when I turn off 3g. When I turn 3g back on I get “no service”. I called ATT and they said there weren’t any towers down in my area. I upgraded to 2.02 the day it came out. Everything worked fine afterwards until today. Why would it just stop working?

By: mark

mark — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:17:57 +0000

When I was using my ATT Tilt or Motorola Q9 on 3G I had full signal and could easily stream my slingbox.Now with my 3g iphone I can barely get one bar in areas where I used to get excellent reception with my other 3g phones.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:31:43 +0000

I can no longer connect to either gmail or yahoo mail. I tried 3G and Wi-Fi. Safari works fine though.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:34:11 +0000

Mike,

Yes, that's exactly what happened to me. Mine worked fine before the upgrade, but after I couldn't get safari to work. Took it to the at&t store and they fixed it by switching out the SIM. I have no idea why that would work, but it did.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:58:20 +0000

Ash, I do not believe it is my SIM card. It was working fine BEFORE the 2.02 upgrade. When I say I have 5 bars but no 3G, when I switch to Edge, I get internet connectivity. I don't believe it is the SIM. I believe it was the upgrade. SIM worked fine before.

I can make calls under 3G with 5 bars. Just can't use internet.

Thanks again.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:15 +0000

3G iPhone, updated 2.0 – 2.0.1, 2.0.2 no problems with 3G. occasional 3rd party app crashes, laggy Contacts app, that’s about it. – Great 3G service in Bham, Alabama.

By: Paul D

Paul D — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:40:35 +0000

Been using Gmail IMAP on my 16gb 3G since day one. Not a single problem.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:58:09 +0000

ya, it does suck lately. This phone is getting annoying. Real 3g would be nice…

even push gmail…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:57:11 +0000

this fuckin fucking sucks. I want my money back

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:05:20 +0000

That too many connections limit thing might be your gmail problem. According to their FAQ:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=97150&topic=12816

You only get 10 connections. Its possible that the iphone imap app isn’t telling you why its failing to connect, but thats probably the reason. Also, if you’re having flaky connection issues, it might be that Google hasn’t detected that your connection is gone, those connections might take 10 minutes to time out.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:08 +0000

Mike, that’s exactly what happened to me. Full bars but no data. Try having your sim card swapped out at an at&t store. Mine’s been working great (better than before 2.0.2) since.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:38:25 +0000

I believe that Apple REALLY screwed up on 2.02 Before the update I was getting pretty consistent 3G connections. Now after the update, I can't connect to any 3G anywhere. And I know it isn't the at&t network because every time I go to the gym, I use 3G to connect to AOL Radio (with no problem), Today (after the upgrade), nothing, nada from the gym. I have 5 bars but nothing. Tried INetwork test and it just sits there. When I switch to Edge, it works fine (slow but fine).

Also have problems from other reliable (and tested) areas in NYC and there was no problem until today.

So the only change for me was to upgrade to 2.02.

THANKS APPLE, 1 step forward, 2 steps back!!

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:53 +0000

It’s a possibility? I haven’t had any 3g issues in Detroit MI but I had an old iPhone and am using my old SIM card…

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:13:54 +0000

After 2.0.2, my 3G slowed to a crawl. It would take 5 minutes to load a webpage, if they came up at all. I stopped in the at&t store today and they swapped out my SIM and now everything seems fine. Any ideas on how a sim card could be causing a problem? Maybe something to do with the SIM cards from phones bought at apple stores?

By: firesign

firesign — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:49:03 +0000

no problems with gmail imap here on an 8 gig iphone 3g. i’m in cincinnati. in fact i haven’t had any of the problems i keep reading about.

By: Senny

Senny — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:17:15 +0000

i live in Richmond, VA and haven’t one problem with my gmail. It works very well.

By: Bad Ash

Bad Ash — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:15:08 +0000

Looks like while they tried fixing some issues they have created newer… bigger issues… My data connection still seems to be working after a reset. Crosses my fingers.