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Help Anyone else having problems with the Inspire?

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AlexzanderT

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:D Alright,

Inspire #1:
I bought my HTC Inspire (ATT obviously) back in the beginning of August. The day I took it out of the box I had problems. It would constantly say I had no signal but anyone near me with ATT had full signal. It also would not let me connect to the internet. I called ATT they sent me to a store to exchange the phone.

Inspire #2:
I had this inspire, almost problem free for a few weeks. Then suddenly it started freezing often. Most of the time after freezing it would restart itself. It would start up and do nothing and run a loop of restarting itself. In order to make this stop I would have to remove the battery (with the phone on as when I pushed the power button, no matter how long I held it down, it would only lock the phone not give me the power off or restart options). After putting the battery in and letting my phone turn on it would work decently for about an hour and then it would do the same thing again. I finally got fed up and called ATT again. They suggested running the phone in Safe mode and doing a factory reset. I did both and that still did not fix the problem. I called ATT again....Cue Inspire #3! :mad:

Inspire #3:
ATT sent me another refurbished Inspire. When I opened this one I had hopes that the nightmare with this phone would be over. I powered up the phone and did nothing to it. I didn't change any widgets, change the background, or install any apps for fear of making the phone do the same thing as my last phone (not like I had many apps or anything on that one). I turned the phone on at around 1pm. By 10pm it had restarted itself and gotten into that loop. I let it do this all night because I did not want to mess with it and when I woke up had to take out the battery. Just when I thought nothing else could go wrong I encountered another problem. Suddenly my phone displayed a warning that my 'SD card was removed unexpectedly' a few seconds later it would say 'preparing SD card'. About 15 seconds later it would say 'SD card is damaged'. It would run this on a loop constantly (for over 48 hours now). I finally unmounted my SD card (thanks to good timing) and have completely removed it from my phone so that no files are damaged.

I have now contacted ATT again and am hoping for them to send me an entirely different phone (which they will eventually). The HTC Inspire is a complete waste of money and is just junk. Apparently ATT does not believe in any sort of a lemon policy either.

Anyone else had this much trouble?
 
Oh, and as of about an hour ago when I try to connect to WiFi it says something like starting WiFi and then displays 'Error'
 
Sounds like you just have bad luck. I haven't experienced any of the above issues and I've had mine since March. Just because you've seemed to have some crazy bad luck doesn't mean it is junk and a complete waste of money. Bought it for $100 on contract and must say was very worth it.

Based on your stories it would seem att just fails at refurbishing phones.
 
dots said:
Sounds like you just have bad luck. I haven't experienced any of the above issues and I've had mine since March. Just because you've seemed to have some crazy bad luck doesn't mean it is junk and a complete waste of money. Bought it for $100 on contract and must say was very worth it.

Based on your stories it would seem att just fails at refurbishing phones.
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I got the phone at a great deal of $50, but as I said have had so many problems. I know several other people that have the HTC Evo or other HTC phones and theirs have similar problems with freezing and restarting.
Maybe you got lucky? (lol)

I will agree I do have bad luck, and ATT sucks at refurbishing phones.
 
I'm sorry about your bad experiences.
I've been problem-free since I got mine in April.
 
I've had my Inspire since the beginning of August and the biggest problem I'm having is deciding on which ROM to run on it. Never experienced anything like what you've described. A few minor quibbles with the GB update like everyone else has, but the phone itself works fine and I've found easy enough workarounds for the little things. Sorry you've run into such a bad string of phones, 'cause based on my own experience it's been a great device.
 
I bought mine in June for $19.00 yep 19 dollars from target with an upgrade and have had not one issue with the thing except bugs from different Rome I've flashed to it. Dropped it on my driveway a couple times and this phone just keeps on truckin. By far the best phone ihave ever owned. It has been overclocked to 2.0ghz and been stable. I love this phone.
 
Sounds like a run of remarkably bad luck. I've had mine since June and not had any major issues. A few bugs here and there but still well within the realm of being acceptable.
 
i was unable to connect to the mobile internet,so please send me internet settings for htc inspire 4g anroid mobile and i was using it in india with airtel network
 
I got my phone from Costco 11-3-11 for $39.00 the Red one. I would not connect to WiFi and called HTC they walk me through a few things and said since I had the phone only 3 days, to take it back. As you know Costco has a great return policy. 30 minutes later new phone not refurbished. Great phone since . It has 2.3.3 preinstalled and works great.:)
 
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