Apple's iOS 6.1.3 Update Can end up costing you 200$+! Submitted by beansmack on June 06th, 2013 - Flag this news as inappropriate Category: Tech
I modified my iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1.3 long enough ago that I do not keep in mind doing it. The update became available in delayed April and I used the update soon thereafter, so it's been a few several weeks. Be sufficient it to say, this problem did not reveal itself right away. However, on my way at home from the seaside over Funeral service Day few days, my automobile's Wireless program instantly ceased linking to the iPhone. It was linking to an Android operating system cellphone of my own just excellent, so I easily decided out any problem with the car. Upon nearer evaluation, I found that both the Wireless and Wi-Fi relationships in the configurations selection were grayed out, significance that I could not get connected to Wireless gadgets or Wi-Fi systems. After a fast search, I found that others were having the same problem. There happens to be 16-page (and growing) community publish on Apple's website and an The apple company help web page for solving the problem, along with a few of identical problems taking up on other websites. I tried all the actions The apple company set out on its help web page, such as absolutely support up the cellphone and repairing it to its manufacturer fails, but the Wi-Fi and Wireless choices stayed grayed out. I realized they were both on the same chipset and that something was incorrect with the chipset, but the point that other customers were stressing of this problem after improving to iOS 6.1.3 created me a little dubious. Whatever the case, I required the Wi-Fi to perform so I did not have overage expenses from Verizon (and Wi-Fi is also far quicker than 3G, of course) and I very much desired the Wireless to perform so the cellphone could be used with my automobile's hands-free program. Ongoing to use the cellphone in its present state was not really an choice, so I created an consultation at the Professional Bar and advancing out to the The apple company Shop. The lady who examined me in for my Professional Bar consultation was absolutely enjoyable. When I revealed her the cellphone, without missing a defeat, she said, "Oh. Then you get a new cellphone." I got the impact that this was not an separated occurrence, which actually came as a comfort. I realized I'd get a alternative and be on my way before you know it. "Actually, hold out," she ongoing. "Is the cellphone still under warranty? I do not want to give you the incorrect information." It was not. I informed to her that the cellphone had been changed less than a year ago - the past one had a wonky mime change - and I realized that alternative mobile phones only bring a three-month assurance. It had been far longer than three a few several weeks since the last cellphone was changed. "I'm just trying to get an idea of what my choices are now," I described. My plan was to use this cellphone until the next iPhone comes out (I'm supposing it'll be out in the fall) and update then. If force came to leave, I would have regarded improving to the iPhone 5 and increasing my agreement beginning, seeing that a alternative cellphone would price $200 anyway. As it changes out, I was two several weeks away from being qualified for an beginning update to an iPhone 5, so that choice was easily nixed (buying a full-price iPhone 5 would have price me $650). So the choices provided to me were to either keep using the cellphone as is - without Wi-Fi or Wireless - or pay $200 for a alternative cellphone because my own was out of assurance. I've proved helpful in the technological innovation market in some potential or another for almost 20 decades, and several of those decades were invested as a specialist solving computer systems. When a device functions up, there is usually one of two main culprits: application or components. For computer systems, application issues are more typical, mostly due to the point that application is controlled by error-prone humans, whereas components issues are more unusual but are fairly easy to identify. Phones are a little more complex, as the application is more difficult to dirt up, whereas the components is vulnerable to lumps and falls and moisture and dirt and lint and a lot of other ecological aspects. At any rate, it's unusual to experience both a application and a components problem in a device simultaneously - but this almost seemed like a application problem that triggered a components problem. I launched this concept to the lady verifying me in at the Professional Bar, and her position was that it was both a application and components problem before eventually conceding that the application had triggered the components to leave the workplace properly. I requested her if this had been a typical problem, and she said that it had. She also said that it would be difficult to move the cell phone's application returning to the past edition, and that doing so would not even fix the Wireless and Wi-Fi problem anyway. "The application update was expected to fix the Wi-Fi, but it finished up splitting it in several iPhone 4 and 4s mobile phones," she said. I requested her if she could see why I would be disappointed by having to pay $200 to substitute a cellphone that was operating excellent until I set up a application update, and she said yes, she could see why I would be disappointed. But the adhering point remained: the cellphone was out of assurance and this was obviously now a components problem that could only be set by changing the components. So I finished up spending $200 for a alternative, understanding that I'll probably be able to offer it for at least $200 when the new iPhone comes out. The display on the old cellphone was fairly damaged, too, so that got set in the procedure. The lady assisting me informed me that The apple company would "take the old cellphone and determine what went incorrect." Throughout this whole procedure, I constantly got the sensation that this is a problem The apple company knows about and a problem that is not exactly unusual. And the alternative cellphone I was given had not yet been modified to iOS 6.1.3 - I'm not going to update it, either. I'd recommend against improving to it if you have an iPhone 4 or 4S and have not modified it yet. I get that this is a complex situation: again, it's unusual for application to cause a components problem. And I have to suppose this was only really a problem because I'm in the strange six-month limbo between my cell phone's unique assurance expiring and my early-upgrade display with Verizon throwing in. Paying $200 because of something that occurred to The apple company components due to an The apple company application update just does not seem right, though. On the other side of that money, I can see where Apple's coming from, in some aspects. At the end of the day, it's difficult to tell whether this application update split the Wi-Fi and Wireless relationships or if they split for another reason. For all The apple company knows, I could be some con specialist trying to business a dud for a like-new cellphone. It'll also be exciting to see whether the next update to iOS - presumably iOS 7 - repairs this problem, or if the components actually gets fried after operating 6.1.3 for a while. In hindsight, I should have taken the old cellphone returning and jailbroken it to see what would have occurred. Some customers are confirming that the Wi-Fi and Wireless springtime returning again occasionally. I relayed this tale to Apple's PR division on Wednesday early morning to see if they desired to opinion on it, and was informed Wednesday mid-day that the problem would first be researched as it is applicable to me as a client - to see if everything was managed properly - and then perhaps there would be an formal declaration given to me as a writer zoher kheriwala taheri menswear mumbai. skype id zoher.kheriwala -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://accessindia.org.in/pipermail/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in/attachments/20130614/8e4295a6/attachment.html> Search for previous postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in _______________________________________________ Mobile.accessindia mailing list Mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in to post send mail to: mobile.accessindia@accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. 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