SW1952's Posts

Thanks but absolutely no help. As I said the iOS devices have no problems connecting to either the 2.4 or 5GHZ signals. The issue is the printer - like most Wifi printers - can't see/connect to the 5GHZ signal that I would prefer to use for all my devices. So why can I print to the computer from my computer that is constantly connected to the 5GHZ connection, but I can't from any of our iOS devices.

I also installed iOS Beta 10.2 (which also installed Verizon 26.0) and after also turning back on Voice over LTE today I got no "no service" notices after driving from home (New Jersey 08831) to Staten Island (10306) to Brooklyn (11230) and back running Apple Maps. Never saw it drop out of LTE - though I did get only 2 or 3 dots many times. Now whether the "fix" was part of the iOS update, the Verizon carrier update or a combination of both - who the heck knows! So at least it seems there is a light at the end of this screwed up tunnel. (Of course, everything on my iPhone 7 could change for the worse tomorrow.......)

Might as well add my info to this thread. iPhone 7 iOS 10.0.2 Verizon 25.1 Home Zip Code 08831 Issued happened 5 times driving through NJ and PA in a 36 hour period. Read the suggestion about turning off Voice over LTE and the problem of no service has not occurred, but my iPhone is constantly showing weaker signals than my wife's iPhone 6+ (running the same software versions). This is something that Verizon and Apple NEED to straighten out quickly.

We currently live in New Jersey (zip code 08831) but this issue has occurred in many areas around New York and New Jersey - it is NOT a weak signal in particular areas because my wife's iPhone 6Plus (also running iOS 10) does not have this issue. Thanks for replying

OH well. Same thing happened earlier this evening. Did a reset of all settings and even that did not help this time. Then I turned iCloud Photo Library on and off and after waiting for all the uploads/downloads it seems normal once again. Very annoying. Guess I will have to do that full factory reset when I get home after all.      

Had sometime in the hotel and did a settings reset and afree I got everything up and run ing again - and remembered all my settings - it seems to have cleared up the icloud problem for now. Now just have to wait and see if it comes back again in a few days like it did before. Because the. I will have to try the factory reset and restore and that will have to wait till we get back home. Wish me luck.

Yes. They suggested a full factory reset but we are on vacation and I don't have access to my iTunes backup and the wifi in the hotel where we are staying is very slow. Verizon LTE is about 50x faster. LOL

Three were taking by the iPhone so they were originally on the phone. Two were uploaded and it got stuck on the third one. The other photos were transferred to my iPad mini by Canon's app from my camera and the iPad did upload them to the iCloud photo library. I then transferred those photos from the iPad to iPhone using Airdrop and now - even though the iPad already uploaded them to the cloud, the iPhone is stuck trying to do the same thing

Ann, you are missing my question. I realize that by waiting until next year I could get the "contract price" of around $200. My question was trying to verify the "ineligible upgrade discount" that the person who wrote the column mentioned. That $100 discount - assuming that it exists - would bring his reported price from $550 to $450. In addition - Verizon is buying back iPhone 5 (which I have) for approximately $300.00. That would bring my total cost to about $150.00. My post was asking if anyone could confirm that there is this purported "ineligible upgrade discount".

The physical changes - aside from the new home button/scanner - are not much. The changes to the processor and its capabilities are. There are reportedly quite a few new functions in iOS 7 that will either not work or not work fully with any of the previous phones. Obviously the difference from 5 to 5s is not that dramatic. My figuring was that if the cost is not that dramatic (figure less than $150 to $200 cost) I would consider it. Much more than that, not so much.

I had the 4 and to me it is much better. Definitely lighter (yeah and thinner). Apps certainly seem to open faster and apps that used processing (like iPhoto and Hipstamatic) seem to run better. I have not tried everything that I have installed yet - just wanted to make sure that all the buttons, USB and BluTooth for my car and earphone jack were working properly. What I really like is that the front facing camera is FINALLY decent enough to actually take a non-video picture. Again I am coming from a 4 and the resolution of that camera (the front facing one) was abysmal. Did try the panorama and the camera indoors and what I have read about an improvement in low light seems true also. As far as maps - I have been playing with it on my iPad since the other day (when iOS 6 was released) and I do see the issues that a lot of people have seen. But I live in NYC and most of the "issues" (aside from the weird looking buildings) were related to small town type areas. Agree that Google maps were better at showing traffic. Did not use Google for turn-by-turn directions (don't even know if it had that) as I use GPS Drive for that) so I have not really played with that yet. I did try out having it display directions to some places and it was fine - just like Google with the three routes and estimated times and distance. Do agree that at times it seems the map is pointed in the wrong direction - not sure if that is an iPhone or GPS issue - but I had the same issue with the iPhone 4 with both Google maps and GPS Drive.

I got mine at around 10:30 EST and had no issues - glad it came early in the day. I would imagine as the day went on all these activation issues would get worse and then get better. Just look how slow iTunes was earlier on. Seems better now.

My order was clocked in at Verizon at 9:27 EST (that would be 10:20 CST) and mine is being delivered tomorrow. I was continuously told by the CSRs that it would not SHIP until 9/21 but it was charged late Wednesday and got the email with the tracking around 10AM today.