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Phone bullshit

36 durable postsStarted 2005-12-22Latest 2005-12-27
#21972Post 1 of 36

So I got a phone call today at about 4:00 from the Red Cross asking me to donate blood again. It was an automated call, so I hung up on it... as I hung up, the phone reset itself. Once it turned back on it said "Invalid Battery" on it. It's said that ever since. I've removed the battery and cleaned the contacts on the battery and phone itself, but it still says it. The phone was almost dead to begin with, and it won't charge because it has an "Invalid Battery." I'm stuck without my phone! damnit! :MadNow:

LUCKILY when I saw the problem I went through my phone and put all my phone numbers in my Outlook. I have my company phone (which pulls it's number from my Contacts in Outlook) that I'm going to turn on and start using until I can get a replacement phone... so I won't lose any phone numbers.

#533395Post 2 of 36

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just ordered a free upgrade by signing up for a 2-year contract... getting a Samsung e335. was the only free phone (or reasonable phone... all others were over $100) that had all options that my current phone has. seems pretty cool. anyone have one of these? I have no problem with a 2-year contract, either. I fucking love T-Mobile

[img]http://www.t-mobile.com/images/products/248287/large_front.jpg[/img] [img]http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/screen_shot_images/934/160001934_002.jpg[/img]

#533396Post 3 of 36

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My friend has one and I don't think its that great. But that is because I'm a phone whore who loves the latest gadgets such as a 1.3 megapixel camera. Couldn't you have gotten a Motorola RAZR free? or do you dislike them?

#533397Post 4 of 36

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I was looking at it, but it would've cost me like 70 bucks or something. fuck that. i'll take a free upgrade from the one I have now, and I would've paid for the $20 phones that were there (if they'd have been worth it).

#533398Post 5 of 36

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Where did you get your new contract at? Was at best buy or some big store or a little mom and pop type shop? I thought RAZR's are free. Maybe in only in California only?

#533404Post 6 of 36

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t-mobile.com

#533406Post 7 of 36

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flash firmware if applicable, or try taking it in and having the phone hard set back to factory standards (basically a reformat losing everything)

or when in doubt:

[url]http://www.howardforums.com[/url]

#533408Post 8 of 36

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I think cause you went with tmobile.com. In california there are a lot of small mom and pop type of cell phone stores that have RAZRs for free with only one year contract. My friend got one like that. Well hope you like your phone thats all that matters.

#533409Post 9 of 36

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I already have my contract with t-mobile that I can't break... I just went with t-mobile.com because I knew it'd be the quickest, easiest way to get a free phone. now my contract is sitting at something like 3yrs, but fuckit.

#533442Post 10 of 36

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How's T-Mo service in your area ? around these parts (which are nothing but hills and sticks), you'd better be at an elevation to get something even remotely close to reception. Verizon on the other hand.... you could be buried 6 feet under the ground and you'd still get service

#533486Post 11 of 36

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T-Mobile is awesome here! I never have problems with it.

The funny thing is Kansas City is the Sprint World Headquarters... they have a uge campus that can employe like 50k people or some crazy shit. Even with the world headquarters here, Sprint has proven to be the worst service in the area. I've had so many friends wiht Sprint here that could never get a signal anywhere they were... constantly bitching.

#533505Post 12 of 36

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i hate t-mobile... and cingular, which i have right now. worst 2 imo. moving to sprint asap, apparantly it has easily the best coverage around here (or so my friends that have worked as cell phone sales reps for the last 4 years say so :p)

#533542Post 13 of 36

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Dont ever go with Sprint Pelo - I had the WORST time with them... no service what-so-ever, their Tech Support NEVER document customer complaints so when you address the issue at a later stage, they say, oh this is the first time you're doing it... I complained to them for 6 months about bad service until one fine day I decided to quit and went with Verizon cause they won some award for best service in the Boston area for 10 running years.... NEVER considered moving away from them.... they're awesome

#533544Post 14 of 36

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i have heard similar things about just about every cell company though... my conclusion is that they ALL SUCK, but sprint has the best area coverage here.

#533547Post 15 of 36

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I've read some nightmares about Verizon too - profit oriented company that doesnt really care for their customers as a few posters on other forums have summarized, but I've never had the need to call tech support because of problems and so I'm pretty happy with my service...

I had friends visiting from NY / NJ area and both t-mo and cingular had NO SERVICE throughout PA..... verizon was on all the way....

#533548Post 16 of 36

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They do all suck, but I've found t-mobile to be the most tech-savvy and cingular to have the absolute worst customer service I'd ever heard of in my life...as they said we can only help you if you have a probelm getting or making calls. So they sell these high tech phones and the plans that go along with them, but they provide ZERO support! Bastards!

In terms of coverage, t-mobile really only have good coverage in cities, anywhere, even a few feet outside, and they suck.

#533550Post 17 of 36

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thats why im leaving cingular, awful support.

[B]AWFUL[/B] :evil:

#533556Post 18 of 36

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all phone service sucks, un-regulated and all for the money. period.

#533557Post 19 of 36

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[QUOTE] awful support.[/QUOTE]

wtf do you need support with? phones are the easiest things to use. user error imo. all the people I talk to have no fucking clue what they are doing, and they blame the company when 90% of the time it something they did incorretly or could not follow step by step instructions.

come on. it's a cell phone company not fucking IBM.

#533560Post 20 of 36

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[QUOTE=asdf_admin]wtf do you need support with? phones are the easiest things to use. user error imo. all the people I talk to have no fucking clue what they are doing, and they blame the company when 90% of the time it something they did incorretly or could not follow step by step instructions.

come on. it's a cell phone company not fucking IBM.[/QUOTE]

i know my way around a cellphone dude, the problem i had was they sold me a phone that stopped working a couple of months down the line and were a major pain in the ass to deal with, at the time the cheapest replacement they offered me was over $80... they kept me on hold for over 2 hours and said they couldnt do anything for me. i walked into a good guys store half an hour afterwards, and walked out with a new phone for $50. complete and utter cunts, at least while i was on the phone with them i made sure they told me when my contract was up and told them i was jumping ship the first chance i got. its not the only bad experience i have had with them (i also get very shitty reception just about everywhere) it was just the final straw. fuck cingular

#533563Post 21 of 36

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:lol:

I took care of all my problems online. perfect!

#533565Post 22 of 36

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[QUOTE]fuck cingular[/QUOTE]

perhaps because i am in the industry, i have a different outlook. i am sure there are network fuck ups and defective gear. i am sorry to hear you had such fucking downer time. that does sucks, and yes there idiots every where. seems like people also have this weird idea a cell phone is like a land line and should work all the time. it is the in the air ... do not trust anything in the air. i am surprised they work at all.

#533566Post 23 of 36

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probably because you dont have shitty fucking cingular.

now im all worked up :x :lol:

#533569Post 24 of 36

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[QUOTE=asdf_admin]perhaps because i am in the industry, i have a different outlook. i am sure there are network fuck ups and defective gear. i am sorry to hear you had such fucking downer time. that does sucks, and yes there idiots every where. seems like people also have this weird idea a cell phone is like a land line and should work all the time. it is the in the air ... do not trust anything in the air. i am surprised they work at all.[/QUOTE]

i dont expect it to work "all the time" but i do expect to have a couple of bars of coverage at least 70-80% of the time. cingular coverage for me is like i can walk across the fucking street and lose all my bars. everyone i know that has cingular is the same way. maybe its vancouver... who knows, but they suck. and its a shame, because it seemed much better when it was At&t before the merge. after the merge, nothing but trouble. cant wait to ditch these bastards. and i am not naive about how cellphones work, i dont know everything about them but i sold them for about 2 years and spent another year working in a warehouse for a company that sold them, so i know a fair bit. i have also had over the years 3 different companies (t-mobile, but it was called something different at the time, at&t pre-merge, and now cingular.) t-mobile - whatever it was before here - was the best, but i lost my job and was unemployed for a while, this was about 4 years ago, so i had to cancel the service. i was with at&t for a couple of years before the merge and had a few problems, but not as many as with cingular. to each their own, but i fucking hate them!!!

#533570Post 25 of 36

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haha. i am sorry to work you up pal. i simply just hate cell phones and would never tell anyone to get one. never ever ever never.

#533575Post 26 of 36

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they are (supposed to be) so convenient though, and sometimes they are. i couldnt go without one now... i dont even have a home land line!

oh well, come new year i'll have a different provider and will be happ(y/ier) than i am with cingular. even if they suck, they couldnt possibly suck this bad, and at least i would have a decent reception (which i already know because 3 good friends have them and they get reception - clear perfect reception in places where i got ZERO bars)

#533576Post 27 of 36

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[QUOTE=peloquin]they are (supposed to be) so convenient though, and sometimes they are. i couldnt go without one now... i dont even have a home land line![/QUOTE] ditto. i'll never buy a land line

#533580Post 28 of 36

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i have a landline, water pump, and cattle. call me old fashioned. ;)

ps. technology is a bitch.

#533582Post 29 of 36

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I got a landline...after the last blackout we had here in NYC it was a godsend...just make sure to have a phone that's not a wireless ;)

#533587Post 30 of 36

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haha. ;)

#533613Post 31 of 36

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[quote=asdf_admin]wtf do you need support with? phones are the easiest things to use. user error imo. all the people I talk to have no fucking clue what they are doing, and they blame the company when 90% of the time it something they did incorretly or could not follow step by step instructions.

come on. it's a cell phone company not fucking IBM.[/quote]

the truth has been spoken :RockOn:

I can't tell you how many times I've been in a Verizon store (not to buy anything mind you since everything's usually so overpriced :lol: ) and just listen to the customers talking to the sales reps in there...pretty much all of them don't have a freaking clue what they want, they just "want" to have one...

I could never work CS or Tech Support because I'd probably be wringing necks for sheer stupidity :twisted:

#534388Post 32 of 36

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cingular rules!! :RockOn: :RightOn: :lol:

#534409Post 33 of 36

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Customer service with cell phones is like opening Pandora's box. You will never make everyone happy. I boils down to who has the best service where you live, and who you want fucking you each month. I've worked in this industry for some time and my experiences are: Verizon has great coverage, expensive, will fuck you every oppurtunity they have; Cingular may not have the best coverage but they are by far the biggest company and easiest to deal with when it comes to customer service; T-Mobile has the most tech savy phones and the SHITTIEST coverage possible, it does work well in some areas but not many; Sprint has the best data network around but if you don't live in a metropolitan area and don't travel by plane everywhere you go it's usless.

#534534Post 34 of 36

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In my frequenting various GSM boards, I was actually under the impression that T-Mobile has a wider coverage than Cingular. In fact my boss has several international mobiles here in the US and almost all of them are bouncing off T-Mo here in the states.....

#534536Post 35 of 36

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Cingular has the largest GSM network period after they bought att, it launched into the number 1 as far as network and people.

#534540Post 36 of 36

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then why do i get shitty fucking reception all over town :x

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