I use mine for work/business and I invest in the phone's proprietary ecosystem (chargers, docks, batteries etc). If a phone is no longer keeping up with my needs then I understand that it is time to get something better.Īs far as a phone being an investment vs an expense, it depends on what one uses it for. I have not issues with upgrading ON MY TERMS not as a replacement for a device that is defective. I can do an upgrade but they want 200 dollars and a 2 yr contract, but at this point I've invested too much in this phone and survived through a myriad of bugs and patches with this phone (I don't mean ics/jelly bean but patches to correct wifi/4g/bluetooth,camera,reboots etc) to give up.ĭoes anyone have similar experiences or is this more of an isolated/struck by lightening/one-in-an-million type of thing? Not had this type of issues till recently, been with them over 10yrs. My it guy just told me to get it sorted out and then contact him so he can put my work files on the phone. My work is suffering kind as I keep having to do a factory data reset (I'm now an expert at this process). One more patch and ics and finally some sort of stability, now I'm back to the bugs, poor battery life and a myriad of refurbished phones that seem to have bad quality issues. After a patch, the wifi and bluetooth went bad.
When I first bought the phone at 250.00 bucks plus contract, the battery drain & 4g issues were so bad, I was told to use the "airplane" mode just to make it work.
#Little inferno airplane mode update
I know they won't give me a new bionic, I was semi-happy till this jelly update came in but I'm really not happy with my overall experience with this phone. Now I've got another phone with the headphone jack making an annoying high pitched sound when playing audio/music. My battery life suddenly went south (I'm guessing the jelly bean update drains battery on due to its extra) got it replaced with a refurb phone which arrived with the phone unglueing from the screen.
I'm stuck in the bionic refurbished inferno.