Phone went crazy [Archive]

Blackstar

24-09-2008, 00:10

Today my phone decided to commit phone suicide. It's a Sony Ericsson 850i with the little touch screen along the bottom of the display.
Unfortunately something has caused the touch screen area to now take over the entire keypad area so if it is touched the middle button including pressing the buttons the enter button is pressed. Which has resulted in some hilarious blank texts being sent to random people.
Anyone heard of this happening before? I'm taking it into T-Mobile tomorrow to see what they say but wanted to know if anyone knows anything more.

Blighter

24-09-2008, 00:14

Have you sat on it?

divine

24-09-2008, 00:19

Blackstar

24-09-2008, 00:19

Would it matter? it's 10 months old its been abused as only i can to a phone, i even dropped it into a spoil heap and it got a bit buried once. I never have it in my back pocket so sitting on it however is unlikely. It was behaving perfectly until lunchtime today.

LeperousDust

24-09-2008, 00:45

Not happened to me, but i'm not surprised, the K850i is possibly the worst phone SE have released in years. People on OcUK are needing replacements every few weeks, mine turns itself on and off several times a day, corrupts itself needing a master reset every couple of weeks, the camera is still broken etc. etc.

Do a master reset if you can get to it, quite possibly just the firm gone mental.

Tbh you say its their worst, but everything after the good old t610 or whatever has been pretty ****. If it isn't joysticks that don't last more than 10 months, its sill touchscreen crap, and then theirs the amnesia you mention which i had with my k700i, they employ monkeys as engineers obviously. Its shocking how much better the majority (definitely not some i know) are compared to the pap SE churn out.

divine

24-09-2008, 00:49

Yeah but although the older stuff had issues, it was still a relatively minority of phones that suffered, whereas I don't know a single person who has a decent working K850i.

I'd like to say my next phone won't be SE but without spending a bomb on top range models, no one else really makes anything nice any more...

Blighter

24-09-2008, 01:27

I generally find Samsungs and Nokias are the ones that are hard as nails/rocks

Feek

24-09-2008, 06:31

My brother in law used to work for SE but got made redundant about five years ago.

Having said that, my current SE phone, the W880i is the best SE I've ever had, I didn't even realise that I'd had it for a year when I'd had it for a year, previously I'd always been looking to change after about 6-8 months!

Garp

24-09-2008, 07:57

Tbh you say its their worst, but everything after the good old t610 or whatever has been pretty ****. If it isn't joysticks that don't last more than 10 months, its sill touchscreen crap, and then theirs the amnesia you mention which i had with my k700i, they employ monkeys as engineers obviously. Its shocking how much better the majority (definitely not some i know) are compared to the pap SE churn out.

This w880i that I have has done sterling service, had it for over a year now and it still works perfectly, still is yet to break, still is yet to suffer poor battery life, and I'm not inclined to replace it at all yet.

BBx

24-09-2008, 09:47

I always had a problem with my K800i's the best phone I had was the K750 and I dropped that so now the listening bit doesn't work :(

See what they say at T Mobile!

BB x

divine

24-09-2008, 10:47

Oh that just reminded of the other problem my K850i has, the earpiece doesn't work so I have to make all my calls in speaker phone to be able to hear anyone.

The W series phones seem to have a much better build quality or something, maybe because they're often based on K series phones but refined, fixed and released a few months later...

Blackstar

24-09-2008, 13:19

"It's a software fault but i've not seen one do this before" it's been sent away for fixing :)