Travel Technology - iPhone signal after landing

Once airborne I place my iPhone in Airplane Mode.
After landing I turn off airplane mode it can take up to 10 minutes to get a signal.
I'm wondering if this is common or if I have a glitch.

It's a real PITA

Once airborne I place my iPhone in Airplane Mode.
After landing I turn off airplane mode it can take up to 10 minutes to get a signal.
I'm wondering if this is common or if I have a glitch.

It's a real PITA

That's not happened to me. If I stay in the US, it searches briefly and connects right up. It searched for maybe 3-5 min when I landed in DUB on Friday then showed an Irish phone service O2 but no 3G or E connections.

I usually turn my iPhone completely off. It may be that it finds a signal more quickly in that case than it does coming of airplane mode, but I agree that it's slower to find a signal after landing than other cell phones I've used.

I also put my (1st generation) iPhone in airplane mode, but upon landing it fires up pretty quickly no matter what country I go to. Less than 30 seconds to full registration I would say.

That may have been due to your location wwhen you turned it on. May be there was no signal there. Usually, the phone should register almost instantly as soon as it finds one.

That may have been due to your location wwhen you turned it on. May be there was no signal there. Usually, the phone should register almost instantly as soon as it finds one.

No, unfortunately it happens every time I am on a plane and land, Yesterday I even had a guy next to me with an ATT Blackberry that got his signal right away while I was "Searching" for the ATT signal for about 5 minutes.

Seems like I've got a problem.

Once airborne I place my iPhone in Airplane Mode.
After landing I turn off airplane mode it can take up to 10 minutes to get a signal.
I'm wondering if this is common or if I have a glitch.

It's a real PITA

You have a glitch. Mine always finds a signal within a minute or so.

Mexperience varies with network carrier, location and phone used. At home, TMO takes forever at JFK but in say Jacksonville Florida, as soon as turning it on....this is true whether I use BB, iPhone, SEw810i.

Internationally, primarily in Asia, signal is much quicker, again regardless of phone (i've yet to try iPhone but will next trip out). The only problem I encountered was with older Treo 600 - often had to do a soft re-set.

I have had a mixed bag of success with my phone coming back from Airplane mode. Sometimes it locks in before I even get back to the telephone screen, other times it takes a few minutes. I think it is hard to really compare to other devices sitting next to you because of how the innards work on each.

What happens if you switch it to airplane mode while just sitting at your desk and then switching it back, does it work better then? It could be an interference thing too I suppose with the airport and all the equipment.

My iPhones have found signal within a couple seconds of turning Airplane mode off. I think you should take it in to an Apple Store, they have diagnostics they can run on the radio. One of mine dropped calls pretty often and they said the logs showed errors with the radio.

My iPhone 3G does sometimes have difficulty picking up the cell when I land. Particularly at my home airport of LAX. I know there's a cell because my AT&T Blackberry powered on at the same time picks up the cell immediately.

Oh well...

doesn't happen with ours, same protocol. You might try RESTORING the iphone, after doing a BACKUP. Seems to clear up a lot of radio issues for me usually.

I have the iPhone 3G, and it finds a signal almost immediately after I take it out of airplane mode. The signal initially is usually just Edge, and it could take another min or so to find a 3G signal, if there is one.

My 1st Gen iPhone gets a signal within 30 seconds after landing and I disable Airplane Mode. MUCH faster than my Nextel cell phone, which I activate at the same time. The iPhone always beats the Nextel.

Or maybe, GSM always beats iDEN? (perhaps it's a network thing)

Speaking of networks, i noticed recently that my 2 friends who have 1st gen iPhone had a different time on their phone than my 3G iphone.

We had all 3 arrived in SLC from different locations. upon arrival, we looked at our phones and noticed that mine was a few seconds ahead.

Odd...anyone else notice this?