iPhone 4 ‘s “Death Grip”, There is a Fix for That: iOS 4.01 is Coming!

The issue of holding the iPhone 4 in certain way might cause the reduction in cell signal reception has raised a big wave of discontentment among users and bloggers. My brother living in Europe told me many users waiting for the new device have turned around to get the older 3GS instead.

The circumvention that Apple advised is to avoid bridging the 2 parts of the metal bar surrounded the iPhone body when making call..

Late last evening,  Apple Insider 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. iOS 4 introduced some enhancements to how the baseband selects which frequencies to use, so it makes sense that the error may have crept into those changes. Additionally, this explains why iOS 4 has also caused similar problems for iPhone 3GS users”

This will be all behind us this Monday, let’s pray for it!

[via Apple Insider]

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