For the past month or so I’ve been using an iPhone with no wifi This all started when I was at the Toronto airport waiting for my flight to Amsterdam (then to Switzerland). Anyways my brother and I had about 4 hours to kill before boarding our flight and I decided to check my email. I wanted to bring my laptop but at the last minute I decided not to (which I then regretted), so I pulled out my iPhone turned wifi on and waited for it to find a signal. It found a signal and it connected to it! Sweet I thought, until I hit the home button and my phone restarts! In a confused state of mind, I’m thinking ‘What the F! This has never happened before!’. I tried it a couple of more times and it did the same thing, so I turned wifi off and decided not to worry about it because I was on my way to Switzerland to watch Italy play Romania!

So we get to our hotel in Switzerland and fell right asleep (I didn’t sleep on the flight). The next morning during breakfast I decided to give my phone another shot at this wifi issue since where we were staying had free public wifi. Turn my phone on, wait for it to connect to the cell network, go into settings and turn wifi on and……….restart! Tried it a couple more times, not believing that my phone and be F’ed, and the same result. I finally decided to let it be, enjoy my trip and worry about it when I get back home.

A few days after I got back into the swing of things I did some research and found out that a lot of people had wifi problems if they unlocked their phones using ZiPhone’s method. At that point I’m confused because i didn’t use that method to unlock. One solution that i was hoping would work was to upgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4. Hoping that it would work i turn wifi on and kaboom my iphone blows up in my hands! Actually that was a lie, it just restarted. Getting frustrated at this damn thing because i have no wifi, i also have none of the 20 APPS i had before!

I let it be for almost a week before i tried turning wifi on again and this time not only did it reboot once, it kept rebooting. It was like an endless loop of rebooting.

Thanks to my brother, he found a site (irepair.ca) which fixes all Mac products. I was glad to hear about this and checked out their site and found their locations. Sweet not too far on College Street, then i saw the store hours. They open at 11am and close at 7pm on weekdays, not enough time for me to go before/after work. So my only option would be Saturday, i decided that it will have to be then when i bring it it.

Which then brings use to today. A few days ago a bunch of brilliant guys released software that will jailbreak/unlock/activate 1st gen iphones for the 2.0 firmware (which is what all the new 3G iphones have). Last night i braved the possibility of messing my phone up even more and upgraded to 2.0 without any problems (hoping that it would fix my issue).  After iTunes did it’s job and the whole process was complete, i turned wifi on and poof it connects and it didn’t restart! Sweet i thought until i noticed that it drops the signal right away

So this leaves me with two options: 1) Bring it in for repairs and find out how much it’ll cost to fix -or- 2) Wait for Fido to release a statment that addresses the people (like me) who are not eleigble for an upgrade to a 3G iPhone.

What do i do?