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Help Verizon's offer to fix my Bionic problems

I have now had 3 defective Bionics over a 3 month period. Constant unprovoked reboots, no data connections unless you pull the battery, no Bluetooth connectivity, a defective earpiece, no hand-off from wi-fi to cellular data and horrible battery life. Neither my 3 year old Blackberry Tour nor my kids' Iphone 4's have any such nonsense. For $249.00 and the longest wait for ostensible higher performance standards than their competitors, Verizon has handled this well-documented albatross of a device poorly. Each new refurbished phone takes over an hour to reset and reinstall apps; and, in each instance its been a waste of time with no meaningful support.
Unfortunately, my firm is now planning a lawsuit to rescind the firm's contracts for our 8 phones as we have had it with the lack of professionalism and the lack of real concern for the customer. We intend now to demand the turnover of the documentation about the known defects in this model, many of which were known to Verizon and Motorola BEFORE THEY SOLD US THE PHONES.
 
This thread has sat for a few weeks. Any updates?

I will tell you all that I have spent 6 months working with VZ to fix my LG Revolution phone with similar problems in the 4Ghotspot. It wasn't until they sent me a Rarz that I found the exact issue were occurring with it (using 901 firmware). So they sent me a Bionic with 901 sw, second day with the Bionic and the 902 loaded and the problems have gone away.

I had used a program called Visual Route 2010. It maps the path of data sent from my PC to the tower to any server. I normally used on open server so that the data can be returned to me. The program show each IP hop, IP owner, hope speed, data lost and the test can be run from either direction.

In all cases these tests could move data successfully. But larger data requests were not possible, such as downloading email or web pages. To me this mean a systematic failure of the data packet transfer process, which could easily contribute to the problems you guys have talked about.
 
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