[Vibrant General] MicBeast:
Is He a T-Mobile Executive? Possibly... sounds like it...

Look at his address

It is in Spokane Washington

Is he a T-Mobile Executive?

http://plazes.com/plazes/114220_t_mobile_corpora

First of all The device I had before this was a Samsung Behold I Espresso

I was new to a touchscreen so I was happy with it

I did not want to buy an Android Device because at the time the OS was a newborn and the G1 was out at the time

THEN as the OS evolved nicer devices came out

THEN the Behold 2. I was interested;

But when I checked it out I was not Impressed with the hardware

AS TIME PROGRESSED, AND I WITNESSED HOW THEY HANDLED THE UPDATE PROCESS WITH THAT PHONE

I was a little leary about buying the Vibrant because it was a Samsung device

The Behold I had featured an UPDATE FIRMWARE prompt in the settings menu

But SAMSUNG NEVER RELEASED AN UPDATE for the BEHOLD I as far as I know

I have never received an update with the Behold I

And they dissapointed me AND scared me with the way they handled the updates for the second behold

Then came the MT3G Slide, I was due for my first upgrade

So I went for it,

Thankfully Before my 20 day exchange window

the Vibrant arrived in stores, I preferred this over a slide

(I never liked slide devices)

I was excited; but quickly started to question myself

The MT3G Slide has a 528 MHZ Processor

versus the Vibrant 1 Gig yet the Vibrant was almost as laggy

I would get FC's ALL the time, and my GPS didn't work at all

I just didn't use it (gps) and forgot about it completely

But then I realized that I NEEDED to use Maps to get around

because I travel a lot

Well when I opened Maps

My Screen would go completely black for 20 minutes

my bottom keys would stay lit

then my phone would "burp" (Vibrate once briefly)

and show me a LOCK screen

has anyone experienced this themselves?

No I am not paranoid

My device REALLY was freezing for up to 20 minutes and restarting randomly

My phone froze EVERYTIME I used GPS! EVEN with the replacement I received in November

My first device was bricked

due to the JI6 update freezing my phone and leaving it in a permanent boot

I was afraid of voiding my warranty so I arranged to have my phone exchanged

They promised me that the shipping was free and due to my inconvenience they would send it express

They said I would receive my phone in 3 days

this was on a Friday

Well on THURSDAY the NEXT WEEK

I called and asked about my phone

After being transferred and hung up on for about an hour

They told me that the phone was actually on back order

and has been for the last TWO and a HALF WEEKS!?

at this point I was frustrated but I had to go to Miami so I quickly dismissed it, and since my Girl stayed home, she would retrieve this package for me

The day before I came home My package arrived

3 and a half weeks after I originally sent my other one in for a replacement!

I called in to let them know that I should not have had to pay for express shipping since I waited 3 weeks for my package

They then promised to reimburse the shipping

and then proceeded to try to charge me for it anyway!

This device I received on that same night prompted me to update my device

Since it arrived in JI6 form I assumed it was FROYO

Nope...Reverted

3 days later the same prompt my battery 80% and plugged into the charger

Same update prompt

This time when I went through the process, it left THIS device BRICKED

and I went through the whole update let it install let it reboot

and it was stuck in the Black Samsung Screen

I ONLY HAD THIS REPLACEMENT DEVICE FOR 6 DAYS

AND AN OTA UPDATE BRICKED MY DEVICE

When I tried to have this phone replaced I had to go through an hour of hell and an intensive interrogation

process, and constant rebuttal claiming that I was PARANOID, Responding with such questions as

"Was I sure that I did not actually do something to my device"

I'm not RICH!

Are you crazy! I'm not going to destroy my own phone WHICH I rely on to survive! to function since

I receive a lot of important calls/texts everyday

BTW I bought this phone using the payment system (4 Payments)

During the duration of this 4 Months (4 Payments)

I went through 3 devices due to faulty Hardware/Software or both

My Samsung Behold 1 was a lot more reliable than that

and I bought it outright from T-Mob for $200!

WHEN I BOUGHT THE PHONE T-MOBILE PROMISED US THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE AN UPDATE IN TWO WEEKS

IN MARCH, AND AT THE LAUNCH THIS WAS MY MAIN REASON FOR BUYING THIS PHONE

WE WERE PROMISED UPDATES SEVERAL TIMES, AND EACH TIME THESE PROMISES WERE RECANTED

CLEARLY ACT(S) OF DECEPTION