With what is being dubbed “Coma Mode” on Apple’s Using iPhone user forums the number of complaints about the newest release of the iPhone OS is growing.
Problems being reported include
- iPhones becoming totally unresponsive
- dropped calls
- poor battery life
- Wi-Fi connection problems
- failed Exchange syncing
- dead GPS service
- signal loss after syncing
When it comes to the “Coma Phone” problem it appears that the iPhone simply disregards all input and needs to be fully rebooted in order to work. Users report that it is a seemingly random problem that happens sometimes when the phone has been put to sleep, sometimes when it’s locked, and other times just because it feels like it.
A blogger at the Detroit News provided a detailed description of his attempted – and unsuccessful – workarounds, and a poster in an Apple thread entitled “Mysterious random total shut downs following 3.1 update” described how he reset his iPhone to factory settings, restored it, set Autolock to Off, deleted his email account, and removed all third party apps – all to no avail.
That poster also tried to downgrade his iPhone OS to version 3.0 – but, unfortunately, Apple’s iTunes doesn’t provide that option. One tech-savvy user, however, has posted a YouTube video of how he used the Mac OS X Terminal to restore iPhone OS 3.0 from an iPhone running the iPhone 3.1 beta
Source: The Register – Apple sends iPhones into ‘Coma Mode’
