topic Re: GPRS issue in Apple

GPRS issue

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:26:13 GMT

Since doing the ios7 update, GPRS no longer loads data! Anyone else had this issue?

Not many areas where I live that aren't covered by 3G so not a massive problem, can be annoying when using navigation in maps and it stops loading new info

Re: GPRS issue

MI5 — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:29:21 GMT

I find it does load data but it's so slow that many websites and apps time out giving the impression that no data is been transferred.

Re: GPRS issue

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:48:31 GMT

Never been a "fanboy" but I'm on my 3rd iphone now and the pros have always outweighed the cons for me!

Was considering a switch in the next upgrade but went out to look at tablets and came back with the ipad air so that's looking unlikely

Re: GPRS issue

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:36:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Since doing the ios7 update, GPRS no longer loads data! Anyone else had this issue?

Not many areas where I live that aren't covered by 3G so not a massive problem, can be annoying when using navigation in maps and it stops loading new info

I agree with MI5 that GPRS is really, really slow and that you do get the impression nothing is happening. I've experienced the same issue when I have used it too with websites timing out.

To be fair though, you would suffer the same slow GPRS speeds on any other smartphone, it isn't isolated to the iPhone.

When did you do the iOS 7 update?

Have you entered your postcode into the service checker to see of there are issues with the mast in your area?

http://status.o2.co.uk

Re: GPRS issue

adamtemp64 — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:11:19 GMT

Just to add we had a power cut last friday and saturday due to weather (so no home adsl) and gprs was patchy at home but did allow some basic browsing and emails etc but at times timed out just a limitation of gprs and not the iphone 5s

Re: GPRS issue

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:47:25 GMT

I don't have the data problem with GPRS, but I DO occasionally on Edge. Sometimes apps refuse to see even a strong Edge signal as a data carrier which can be a real pain for messaging