Hi.
So, I've had my phone (HTC HD7 Mango) for just over a year now, and I've absolutely loved it. Mostly. It was all going so well until about December, when IE9 got stuck on the tabs page, then closed. It now won't open. The tile flips over, but after that... Nothing! This means that no links in emails or on Bing Search will open, which you can imagine is pretty irritating when you consider the level of integration the browser has into the OS. But I thought I'd try and make do with a 3rd party browser until IE10 comes out with the Apollo update.
Now, you may be thinking "Why not just restore the phone"? Well, I tried. LOTS. And every time, it just said that the restore had failed. The subsequent updates pushed out to my phone- which I hoped would fix any problems- haven't helped, and now the restore point is to a version containing the errors. Again, Irritating.
So I thought I'd just wait until the next major update to the OS. However, several other things have now gone wrong. When I wake up each morning and check my phone, the battery meter tells me that it has only half charged (until I soft restart it) and loading time in apps and within the OS is pretty appauling. It then freezes so that I have to remove the battery and restart it 5 or 6 times before I can use the phone as anything other than a pretty lame torch. And when it does finally start working 'normally', I find that I can no longer connect to the Marketplace due to connection issues ("Please check the phone is not in flight mode"... IT'S NOT.)
I know that most of you are now thinking that I should just cut my loses and reset my phone. And I'd love to, I really would. But my phone has all of my messages on, some of which are from a friend who died recently, and I really don't want to lose them! [Note: WHY WOULD YOU NOT INCLUDE SMS BACKUP IN AN OS?? Every phone I've owned in the last 5 years has had that capability, and this- the most 'advanced' one yet- hasn't??] I've paid ?25/Month for 15 months + ?100 for the handset, and I'm currently the not-so-proud owner of a shiny, flashing brick. As you can probably tell, I'm a little bit annoyed by it at the moment.
Okay, now that's out of the way, here's my question: Has anyone else experienced such HUGE problems with their phone? I've searched around to try and find any similar problems, but nothing so far. I'd just like to know if mine is the first Windows Phone to completely fall over (because it would be SUCH an honour...)
Cheers
So, I've had my phone (HTC HD7 Mango) for just over a year now, and I've absolutely loved it. Mostly. It was all going so well until about December, when IE9 got stuck on the tabs page, then closed. It now won't open. The tile flips over, but after that... Nothing! This means that no links in emails or on Bing Search will open, which you can imagine is pretty irritating when you consider the level of integration the browser has into the OS. But I thought I'd try and make do with a 3rd party browser until IE10 comes out with the Apollo update.
Now, you may be thinking "Why not just restore the phone"? Well, I tried. LOTS. And every time, it just said that the restore had failed. The subsequent updates pushed out to my phone- which I hoped would fix any problems- haven't helped, and now the restore point is to a version containing the errors. Again, Irritating.
So I thought I'd just wait until the next major update to the OS. However, several other things have now gone wrong. When I wake up each morning and check my phone, the battery meter tells me that it has only half charged (until I soft restart it) and loading time in apps and within the OS is pretty appauling. It then freezes so that I have to remove the battery and restart it 5 or 6 times before I can use the phone as anything other than a pretty lame torch. And when it does finally start working 'normally', I find that I can no longer connect to the Marketplace due to connection issues ("Please check the phone is not in flight mode"... IT'S NOT.)
I know that most of you are now thinking that I should just cut my loses and reset my phone. And I'd love to, I really would. But my phone has all of my messages on, some of which are from a friend who died recently, and I really don't want to lose them! [Note: WHY WOULD YOU NOT INCLUDE SMS BACKUP IN AN OS?? Every phone I've owned in the last 5 years has had that capability, and this- the most 'advanced' one yet- hasn't??] I've paid ?25/Month for 15 months + ?100 for the handset, and I'm currently the not-so-proud owner of a shiny, flashing brick. As you can probably tell, I'm a little bit annoyed by it at the moment.
Okay, now that's out of the way, here's my question: Has anyone else experienced such HUGE problems with their phone? I've searched around to try and find any similar problems, but nothing so far. I'd just like to know if mine is the first Windows Phone to completely fall over (because it would be SUCH an honour...)
Cheers
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