Had to send my son's ipad to apple today

[SAWYER]

The internet hasn't been working the last few days even though it showed to be connected. I did a restore twice and no luck, then today it wouldn't even power on. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[preslove]

You ended buying your son the iPad? lol

You going to pay the repair bill?

 

[Spicedaddy]

You were holding it wrong.



just kidding

 

[SAWYER]

You ended buying your son the iPad? lol

He sold his Mac to pay for it

 

[mosco]

Have you tried 3.2.1? There were weird wifi issues in 3.2.

 

[SAWYER]

yes

 

[TheStu]

I am assuming that there is not an apple store nearby?

 

[SAWYER]

Hour and a half away is the closest

 

[Pliablemoose]

Last time I dealt with Apple Care, I got 2 free refurbished iPhones

 

[AMDZen]

Last time I dealt with Apple Care, I got 2 free refurbished iPhones

Say what?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Say what?

I wasn't perhaps entirely ethical...

Ordered 2 refurb gen1 iPhones without contract, they sent the order to the town I lived in with no street address on the mailing label....

They sent 2 more with a street address, and I swung by Fed Ex and picked up the original order as well.

Yeah, I'm going to hell.

 

[SAWYER]

Apple received it and claims they can't find anything wrong

 

[Pliablemoose]

Do you live near a genius bar?

Amdhunter had a similar problem...

 

[randomlinh]

Do you live near a genius bar?

Amdhunter had a similar problem...

Hour and a half away is the closest

though, would the genius bar do better than apple direct?

 

[Pliablemoose]

though, would the genius bar do better than apple direct?

What I hear on the Apple forums is that they are hit or miss, some people end up with a replacement unit, or a nice upgrade, some are told there are none in stock to replace them with (@ the Genius Bar)

IIRC AMDHunter sent his back 4 times till they got it right... Genius Bar said they agreed with him but no units to replace it with, so he used Apple Care.

I'd just keep sending it back to them after a phone call or 2...

 

[SAWYER]

I just got the ipad back and the same issue, I can not get online even though it shows to be connected

 

[AstroManLuca]

How many different networks have you tried?

 

[SAWYER]

Just mine, the n and g bands. I have disabled security, and made the network open with no luck

 

[SAWYER]

Our other ipad works just fine

 

[Pliablemoose]

My iPad was a pita to connect to wifi the first couple of days, does yours show any ap's?

 

[SRoode]

There were several good suggestions in this article:

http://www.rickysays.com/ipad-wifi-network-problems

One of which you already did (the router security settings) but another was to change the wireless router's network speed to B/G mixed instead of the default wireless-n, and the Channel Width setting to 20Mhz instead of the default 40Mhz.

Maybe that helps? Good luck!

 

[SAWYER]

I called Apple and the lady had my check to see if I was getting an ip from my router, I wasnt getting anything in my router's range of 192.168.0.x. So she had me reset the router and that solve dit, the router gave the ipad a valid ip address

 

[Rottie]

now did your son kiss you back?