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piece of junk - lots of problems

kevinicus

Oct 13, 2005, 1:58 PM
my gf has this phone and she got it thru letstalk.com - the first phone she got would not connect to the internet at all, so she had to get a new one from letstalk. they only have a 30-day warranty - after that, you're on you're own with the manufacturer.

now it's been 3 months and the replacement phone is really having problems:

*the phone won't charge using the wall charger anymore

*when you use the car charger, it will only charge to one bar and then die after 5 minutes

*it receives text messages and calls from cingular DAYS later (so it's obviously not communcating with the network properly)

*the alarm clock will stay on even if you turn it off

*drops calls at an amazing rate. my nokia (on the same network, in the same...
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kevinicus

Nov 23, 2005, 5:48 PM
well we sent this phone to moto and got it back a week later, and they seem to have fixed it, so i guess somewhere there knows what they are doing! not sure if it got a firmware update or what but it no longer drops calls, my gf gets all calls and texts, and it will actually charge.
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pnkrgreenday

Feb 12, 2006, 8:31 PM
will you tell me the process that you went through to send the phone to motorola? i got a v551 that was not activated to cingular and now it won't acess the internet. i'd like to know if i could get my phone fixed like you dide. thanks.

pnkrgreenday@sbcglobal.net
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VR6Yetta

Nov 29, 2005, 9:35 AM
i have had already 2 replacements on my V330. i hate this phone witha passion. i am waiting for tmopbile to get some better phones. i am watching for the SK3 which comes out in April 2006. i have had charging problems and dropping calls. i also getting a lot of peolpe on the other line that cant hear me. i get a lot of echoes. i use to have a A630 before this and i truly hate Motorola right now. every phone i get that is a motorola has so many problems.
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