[HTC Excalibur] cornell2:
Gad. As an engineer, I am a little reluctant to post this question or observation ... but if trained active astronaughts reported seeing UFOs, then I can report this problem. Here it goes:

My upgrade to 6.1 on my T-Mobile Dash coincided, unfortunately, to the day, with a new job that requires me to commute to Phoenix, AZ each week (as well as other brief US travels).

The evening I installed 6.1 (RUU_Excalibur_WM61_Kavana_080408_WWE)

I was in my home in the Silicon Valley area of CA. No problems.

Then

1. I shuttle off to Phoenix. From the moment I landed - email was just broken all over the place - mainly SMTP - which is well documented on these boards. A replacement Dash, 30 hours of tech support etc .. the problem has seemed to go away - perhaps it was a bizzare temporary incompatability between the 6.1 upgrade and tmobile's proxy servers.

now then ....

2. When I am in CA - my appointment reminders, and the overall behavior of the Dash is OK. I tend to use Tasks, Outlook, and text and pop emails quite often, browser and playing solitaire when i get bored. and lots of bluetooth use. Usually no problems with any of this while in CA.

3. I've traveled recently to Orlando, LA, St. Louis, San Fran, Indiana ... no problems at all - or rather no changes in behavior.

4. The SECOND I land in Phoenix and turn on my phone, the poltergeists start:

a. I turn on the phone - and all the reminders appear (no surprise) - but the "dismiss/menu" options don't appear for maybe 5 mins. I cannot do anything during this time except click on the Celetask button (@)... but this won't allow me to terminate anything. Only the back button and home key work - returning me to the frozen reminders list.

b. After 5 mins of freezing ... I either dismiss the reminder/appointments (or snooze them for 1 hour - ... one hour). Then I try to look at emails etc ... I find the button responses sluggish but working. THEN within about a min - the damn reminders appear again. When I dismiss them all, they reappear in about a min - this time with a duplicate of each active reminder (calender appts) ... yes, 2 of each. This keeps interrupting email reading until I cant stand it.

c. so I take out the battery, wait, and reboot. perhaps after 5 trys of this - the behavior still persists, but stable enough for me to work on the dash (perhaps it is not the reboots - but that the appointment reminder cycle has expired)

d. Even so ... during the next few hours -

i. Major problems talking on the phone. Reminders interrupt; cannot access phone menus (toggle handsfree, or to type touchtone numbers)

ii. When navigating other apps - keyboard does not always respond ... sometimes it appears to stuff in erroneous keystrokes

iii. freezes (unresponsive) for long periods 3-4 mins at a time then all the backlog of keypresses are excuted.

Yes, I have replaced the Dash twice already! That's not the problem

Taking out the battery, or otherwise rebooting actually seems to make the problem worse (the reminders trip over themselves and take forever to clear)

These problems only seem to occur when I stay in Phoenix (I know, a UFO sighting in more pausable).

The problems seem to subside within a day or two but I am not certain.

These problems don't seem to happen in any other city ! Took 4-5 months of traveling to realize this!

gulp ...

Has anyone else experienced anything close to this?