WiFi Settings Disabled - "No Wi-Fi"

manfredfunco · 07-01-2007, 12:46 AM

Hi, my Wi-Fi was working perfectly this morning. Now, i can't even enable Wi-Fi under settings. The option is greyed out with "No Wi-Fi". I tried shutting down, reset, restoring the whole iPhone, etc. to no avail.

Here's a screenshot
http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?i...fierrorvl4.jpg

Has anyone seen this? I know i have many wi-fi networks active. I just connected to mine from the iMac that my iPhone is connected to.

Not that this has anything to do with this, but everything was fine until I went for a motorcycle ride on a hot day with my iPhone in my pocket which took some heat from the pipes on my bike (nothing extreme though). When i got back home, my Wi-Fi was hosed.

I hope "No Wi-Fi" doesn't mean it can't find the Wi-Fi hardware..

Any ideas?

Thanks
Max

SPCartmanLand · 07-01-2007, 12:48 AM

damn dude if you tried a reset and all that then the wifi is prob. shot... hope this isnt a problem with alot of units

SHuntVA · 07-01-2007, 07:44 AM

I have not seen that problem yet ... but will post another wi-fi question.

Apple posted several service notices ... One tells how to a hard reset of the iPhone (hold down the sleep AND the home buttons at the same time for 8-10 seconds) ...

That might get you back to a clean baseline.

manfredfunco · 07-01-2007, 07:55 AM

Yep, i did the hard reset. I even "restored" the iPhone which basically formats the phone and reloads the os.

SPCartmanLand · 07-01-2007, 08:11 AM

dam dude did you figure out anything yet?

SPCartmanLand · 07-01-2007, 03:55 PM

whats the status on it now?

manfredfunco · 07-02-2007, 12:12 AM

Here's the deal. I called apple support. They didn't have any more information other than the stuff i already did (reset, turn wi-fi on/off). They started talking about changing the wireless settings but i kept saying I COULD NOT EVEN TURN ON WI-FI AT ALL. It was as if they never encountered this before. I can't say i have a problem with the tech support though. The darn thing just came out last Friday.

In the end they said they could log a ticket and get back to me if they found out anymore information. I said no thanks, i'll just go back to the apple store and exchange it. They were really cool about it and gave me a new one which works just fine.

So back to when the problem started in the first place. The problem started after about a 2 hour ride in my jeans pocket on a hot day. Yea, it was toasty, but it should be able to handle that (my iPod has been through much worse). I don't know if the heat is what caused the problem, or i just had a lemon. In all my googling, I did find just one other person that had the problem so it could (hopefully) be a rare thing.

SPCartmanLand · 07-03-2007, 12:03 AM

man **** this just now happend to me first damn day ive had the phone now i got no wifi i cant even enable it wtf

manfredfunco · 07-03-2007, 10:02 AM

sorry dude, did you just see my post before you bought one hoping it wouldn't happen, then it happened? I'm surprised i haven't seen more posts on this. Are you going to take it back? If you do, make sure you take your sim card before you return it. I didn't and had to be on the phone with att/apple for about an hour trying to get them to deactivate my old card so i could activate the new one.

SPCartmanLand · 07-03-2007, 12:45 PM

I fixed it just rebooted phone read my post in iPhone that I posted thats what I think is happening