More iOS 4 Bugs Revealed [iOS 4 Users Can't Send MMS, Contacts Deleted, Push Notifications Not Pushing - Is iOS 4 Running Good For You?]

Posted on TFTS by Kevin Schram on Saturday, 26. June 2010 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

Although iPhone 4 came out this past Friday, even the regular folk with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS devices were able to update their phones to iOS 4 on Monday. Unfortunately, as we’ve covered here previously – the update hasn’t been the smoothest as many users are reporting serious bugs in the new mobile operating system.

Here’s a rundown of all iOS4 bugs we’ve seen reported on the internet.

Blurry images is probably the biggest one. Users who have their photos synced to iTunes have noticed that the images are now blurry when they first updated to iOS4. TFTS reader Ryan found this workaround in our comments and posted this. It seems to work for most:

“mine were really low res and blurry. So i
1. went back in to iTunes
2. clicked on iPhone
3. Clicked Photos Tab
4. un-ticked the Sync Photos box
5. clicked “don’t remove photos” when prompted
6. Re ticked Sync Photos.
7. It synced quickly (about 20 seconds for 537 photos)
Now they’re all back to high res – you’ll still get a momentary optimising [sic] images warning, but only quickly.
Worked for me is all I can say.”

Camera app crashes are another serious problem. Some users are reporting that when you attempt to use the camera, the virtual shutter won’t open again, and the whole phone locks up. This applies to any app that users the camera, like Facebook.
Many users have reported, both to our site and to other sites that with iOS4 they’re unable to send MMS (media text messages) to their friends.
The iOS 4 update is deleting the contracts of some users, and attempting to use iTunes to back it up doesn’t work.
In iOS 4, some users are reporting that push notifications no longer work on their iPhone.
Users are reporting that the option to change the period of time before the screen auto-locks is ‘locked’ at 1 minute.
And finally, some are reporting that the iOS 4 update fails and the iPhone just reboots endlessly. This sounds more to me like the phone was accidentally unplugged or something and the firmware in the phone is incomplete. Regardless, I hope you’re under warranty and can get a new one from Apple.

Any of our users had these bugs? Have you had success with Apple tech support helping you or either exchanging it for a new one? Chime in on the comments.

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Jacob
I have 3gs users who are having problems opening excel attachments and it crashing the mail app. when i try to open the same attachment on a 3g phone it says that it can’t process the file.
Andy
I can’t send emails from within apps anymore. Emailing a link from within safari fails. Emailing a Memo or Photo fails.
My email uses gmail exchange sync technique – switching to normal gmail IMAP based account seemed to fix the problem.
blaze
i get random freezes while typing a text and i have to restart my phone to even continue typing, i expect IOS 4.0.1 to be out like ASAP because IOS 4 is sooo buggy, i wish i could down grade to 3.1.2, ran so much nicer, plus need to be able to turn off multitasking, after like 5 -8 apps my 3gs actually slows down like crazy (bad lags) and the battery drains mad fast, kinda tired of having to go to delete all the apps i just was in.
Linzi
My push doesn’t work on my iPhone 4. It sucks :-/
Brian
I have a 16gb 3gs and I upgraded to 4.0 and i totally regret it…not only are my pictures blurry my internet (3g) will not connect only thing that works is wifi… i also cant send mms…very upset
Will
My phone doesnt read 3g for my apps anymore. It’s stupid and now I cant even use 3.1.3 thanks Apple I appreciate this one.
Daniel a
I updated and I haven’t had any issues, my phone connects better to 3G, I haven’t had any camera issues, I also realized that after my iPhone made my images blurry when I reuploaded them they had a higher yes adjustment and I could zoom in more… You people really just like to complain.
Gary Muir
I updated on my 2G iPhone 3GS, got error 29 (leaves you in recovery loop), spent hours trying to get out of that. Restored, lost everything off phone. Now with iOS 4 and a phone that continuously rebooting every three minutes +/- 7 seconds and unable to restore form backups. I wrote my issues and ways I tried to solve it on Apple Discussions to help others what to do and not to do but had it all removed due to “inappropriate activities”. Nothing heard from Apple to say it is an issue and they are working on it. The benefit I have from the update is I can at least use my phone to soft boil an egg +/- 7 seconds.
joe cachia
when I take pictures from my iphone4g in the vertical position and email them, they open in the email in a horizontial position. You have to hold the iphone horizontially with the home button to the right to get the pictures in emails like your eyes see the picture.
brandon
I upgraded by 3G and the first try left me in the reboot loop. I was able to hold down the home key and plug it into my computer to get into recovery mode to fix that. Then when I finally got iOS4 installed my contacts were there for about 30 seconds and then they disappeared. I can’t restore from a backup to get them back, nor will it pull them from my mobileme account. The phone is also slower doing nominal tasks like opening the ipod music player and tends to freeze at times. Good thing this isn’t a Microsoft product, people would be outside their gates with pitchforks. I doubt people will compare this to Vista…
adelia
i have the iphone 3g and everything went smoothly until later i notice i could not send picture messages and i was like seriously?! on the bright side i still have my contacts… phew! but there better be a bug fix soon i feel like im back to first generation iphone days hahaha
saydur
Did a full DFU restore on iphone 3G and IOS 4 worked like a charm. It seems it needs a fresh install of the new firmware instead of the upgrade
Liquorsea
while on a phone call, a call waiting call came in, i hit ignore, and a constant tone stayed on the call i was, and every time i made a call afterwards have that tone. had to restart to phone to get rid of it. On top of multiple freeze ups.
Jontext
I’ve had a pretty serious problem… I had to disguise my 4 as a 3G or 3GS so people would stop asking to play with it… So frustrating!
Spiros
I upgraded my 16gb 3gs and have lost all my contacts, my loaded music, and quite a few video files. I even backed up the phone prior to upgrading.
Even iTunes said it was backing up the phone while it was upgrading. The restore didn’t work, and I can’t even locate where iTunes backed up my phone files.
I cannot send standard text messages when I have the “MMS Messaging” option set to “ON” in my message settings, and vice-versa, (cannot send or receive MMS), when it is off. (Serious Bug this!)
I have also seen the blurry low res images and tried the trick higher up and it seemed to fix that.
I think the muli-tasking is rather a joke as many apps seem to start over again when you switch over to them, (eg,Skype,)and do not seem to receive new notifications except for the standard Apple apps.
Not Happy Apple! This OS should not have been released without extensive testing! I totally regret upgrading.
DHolmesNC
32gb 3GS – No keyboard pop-up when searching (artists, songs, albums, etc.) in iPod app.
Brad Hodgkins
I have an iPod touch 3rd gen 32gb and my photos blur, apps don’t install properly, when I open some apps they just close and when it’s meant to rotate it doesn’t even when rotate is unlocked!!
William
Hi,
I may be able to offer some light onto this matter of no MMS, there is speculation that the MMS bug was caused by Jailbreaking your device and then updating. Personally i got this even without jailbreaking and the fix is relatively simple, ubt many people will be disgruntled by it.
You will have to restore the phone by getting iTunes to download a clean copy of iOS4 and then installing it, and then set up as NEW phone.
Most of the problems that people are expreriencing are from using backups of the old OS 3 software.
So restoring it to the latest clean iOS4 should fix most of the problems that people have reported. Just remember DON’T restore from a backup, this will screw it all up.
I’m currently experiencing the phone restart about 4 minutes into every call, something to do with the sensors. I’ve been told to bring the phone into the Apple Genuis Store for a fix.
Anyway, hope this advice helps!
William
Also problems with no network internet is you have to click update in the itunes window and it will say update carrier settings, this should work. If not go into your networks shop and they will sort it for you instantly.
carlos
Autofill Not Working! push notifications not working either. random crashes on apps. some apps dont open at all. sigh..
chris
I have a 3gs and i updated to 4.0 and i dont even have the option to send pictures or any mms anymore. anyone know what i can do about this?
shelly
i can not send picture texts. it is frustrating to say the least!!
stoker
I have 3GS updated to 4, When I have a link sent to me on my iphone, only part of the link is Hyperlinked, and the rest not. The result of this is I can’t click on to the link to bring it up in Safari, so I have to copy and paste the whole supposed link, into the address area in Safari. Does anyone else experience this? Perhaps some of you can try this out to see if they experience the same problem?
Fakhar Rajpoot
Hi lads, I have ugraded my 3gs to iso4 and since then I cant open hmtl attacments and I could not mange to solve that tec support dont know either. Kind of stuck not happy with ios4
Josh K
Updated my 3G phone to the new spectacular 4.0 yesterday, and now I am no longer able to send/receive texts of any sort. Awesome! Always wanted to make an extra trip to the AT&T store.
Apple, looks like you rushed this one pal. Hope this is fixable. And to think I just bought my wife an iphone to have for herself a few days ago for her birthday- not cool. Hope she doesn’t have any issues either.
Good luck with the reviews of 4.0, LOL!
Dave
When you MMS multiple pictures to one number it defaults back to the icon screen. You only can MMS one picture at a time WTF!
Arno
My iPhone 3GS yard funambol to sync contacts after upgrade to ios4 u lost THE button add contacts in contacts also i cannot delete any of my contacts or edit them.
Anyone who has found à solution for this?
Vince
Since iso 4 upgrade I have lost Contacts Can not send MMS despite reseting with O2. I have also lost ability to carge up on my Bose system as it is now not supported eventhough it was before
What a waste of time
C Terrell
As many of you I updated to 4.0 and not only did all my contacts get deleted I can’t send picture messages nor do I have the option to select a image I can’t connect to any sort of wifi I called apple they said they were sorry and knew how I felt I said really all of these things are happening to you also?? They said no.. Needless to say I’m still pissed n there’s nothing they could do but say sorry they have no clue when a fix is being released. I’ve tried starting fresh with installing 4.0 and still no luck…. Gotta love updates
simon
I upgraded a 3GS to iOS4 and now it spontaneously reboots the phone when on calls of longer than 5 minutes. This did not happen under 3.1.3 and phone has never been jail-broken. NOT IMPRESSED
3gs
i have the 3gs and on the new software i cant send pics, and my internet(the 3g)no longer connects to anything. I cant get to the app store or safari or a lot of my apps even. also the volume thing is tweaking out and when its on silent or when the volume on it shows the bell turning off and on constantly and vibrating and its fucking retarded. wtf.
david
Everything is fine in my 3GS except one little thing. There are people complaining about the continuously vibrating, but i am complaining because it doesn’t vibrate since I installed the iOS4.
I look the preferences, restarted it synced it…but nothing!!!
My 3G is fine with the iOS4, apart the blurry images in the iPod App and the speed decrease.
Marc
I regret upgrading my 3G to iOS 4 as well… Lost wifi COMPLETELY and my 3G is too slow to be usable. I even downgraded to iOS 3.1.3, hoping to get wifi back… to no avail! Wifi is apparently broken by the baseband upgrade that accompanied the iOS 4 firmware update.
Furthermore, after downgrading to iOS 3.1.3 it appeared the iOS 4 backup couldn’t be read by iOS 3.1.3: “firmware to old”. I could only restore from a previous backup of several weeks ago. But losing several weeks of sms, todo’s and lot’s of other information is just too much for me to handle.
So I upgraded back again to iOS 4 (silently hoping the baseband would be fixed by upgrading) but… alas!
Now I’m stuck, on the eve of my vacation, with my latest information restored but with a terribly slow iPhone 3G and no wifi (and I’m NOT going to roam).
Al I can do is waiting for Apple to update the baseband again or for a hacker that makes it possible to downgrade the baseband…
gucadee
since the upgrade to iOS4 on my iPhone 3Gs the auto-numbering of photos always restarts with 0001 after imports to OSX (via “image capture”). So the default folder for my imported iPhone photos will look like this after three imports: IMG_0001.JPG / IMG_0001 1.JPG / IMG_0001 2.JPG etc.
This is an annoying bug. Before iOS4 my iPhone had always known the last used number (wether i made imports or not), so the numbering always remained chronological.
Carlos
I also updated to the ios4 and to say the least I am fucken pissed. I lost my contact list and I always backed it up. Apple what are you going to do about this???? This is unacceptable since I spend enough dollars on your products.
Bunna
My phone is 16gb 3GS on ios4 have slot of bug with Internet connection. Access AppStore is difficult always ask me to enter my id n pw many times when downloading an app there. Lost of the time it shows Can’t connect to itune. An on safari most of the time it shows Can’t connect to Internet where as at the same time my other 3GS 32gb is working smooth on 3.1.3 without any difficulties. BUT I don’t think apple developers will read this

More iOS 4 Bugs Revealed [iOS 4 Users Can't Send MMS, Contacts Deleted, Push Notifications Not Pushing - Is iOS 4 Running Good For You?]

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