For the very first time, Apple’s major product of the year iPhone 4 is being reported as buggy and not meeting the earlier quality standards. Specifically, the issue of signal drop while holding iPhone 4 has created a lot of fuss for Apple. The defect has been named as “Death Grip” by bloggers. Earlier it was being identified as a hardware issue but it turns out to be a bug in iOS 4.
It means we should blame the current generation of iOS i.e iOS 4. iPhone 4 is not causing the drop because iPhone 3G[S] running iOS 4 face the same issue. According to AppleInsider, some customers have reported that Apple support team discussed the issue in forum and hinted that a software update that may be named as iOS 4.0.1 will be made available for iPhone 4 3GS and 3G.
Readers report that Apple’s tech support forums originally confirmed that a iOS 4.0.1 software fix addressing the issue would ship early next week (as early as Monday), before the comments were subsequently taken down along with all the other related discussion about the matter.
The fix is expected to address a issue in iOS 4 related to radio frequency calibration of the baseband. Readers who saw the original forum discussions say that the issue is believed to occur when switching frequencies; because the lag is allegedly not calibrated correctly, it results in the device reporting “no service” rather than switching to the frequency with the best signal to noise ratio.
Later on, the threads have been removed from Apple support forum. It is being predicted that iOS 4.0.1 will be available for download on Monday or any day within next week.
[Via Apple Insider]
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It’s already Monday here in the Philippines. I hope this update would fix the fast battery draining issue of iOS 4 beacause my iPod Touch is not jailbroken yet I can’t restore back to previous iOS software. I also hope that this update will be implemented this week. Thanks.