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One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Alex_G29 — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:35:37 GMT

This must be one of the strangest phones I have ever owned. There are several issues with it, it's not just one. First of all, it has the worst connection you could ever imagine, not just wifi but also the mobile data connection, my old Laptop from almost 10 years ago has beter wifi reception then this phone. Sometimes it switches itself on and off, same applies to the mobile data, even while I'm in the middle of doing something and poof, mobile date switches off like that out of nowhere. It's also becoming difficult because of this to work with apps that I downloaded, very frustrating!

There is also something very weird about the alarm. Sometimes when I hit the snooze button it doesn't snooze at all, it just stops without warning me within 5, 10 minutes, I have overslept a few times due to this problem. And the other way, when I hit stop the alarm it snoozes, **bleep**?!

But the worst thing is really the bad connection that the phone has, I haven't seen worse yet, I had a Blackberry before this one and it never had difficulty with the reception, this one seems to fail to even have a connection for half an hour and even when you are very near to a wifi portal. Needless to say, because of the bad wifi connection now my bill from my mobile network provider has skyrocketed. I tried downloading several wifi boosters but nothing seems to help.

This really damages the image I had of Sony products, I have a sony vaio laptop and a sony photo camera and they work perfectly fine, this is one of the reasons I was looking into buying a Sony phone, but this phone is just so bad that it changed my mind to ever buying a Sony phone again. Hopefully this can be avoided in the future.

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Danial-mach1 — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:43:22 GMT

as may know if your stamania mode is on your connection to internet will be banned when screen switch off

may be its your problem

about wi-fi reception in 4.3update that problem is solved..i have great wi-fi range

about alarm if you set 2 or 3 alarm and their time difrence is under snooze time that may casue such problems

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Alex_G29 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:15:06 GMT

Well, I have updated my phone and the wifi range did get indeed better but still not as it should be on a modern phone. But now I'm struggling with several new issues, it seems as this phone has never-ending problems.

After the update my phone got incredibly slow to the point that it becomes unusable and frustrating to work with. My album doesn't load, my pictures don't show, it takes a whole minute for my camera to start let alone something simple like dialing a phone number and make a call. On the contrary, my download apps still work at a normal speed.

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

kyle — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:58:07 GMT

Just get a new phone I've been dealing with issues from this phone for at least 6 months it's garbage and 4.3 had done nothing but make it worse there customer service is among the worst out there this is definitely my last product from this company really not surprising these douche bag's are losing money everyday

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Danial-mach1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:50:33 GMT

Alex

try reset to factory..it should solve your problem

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

frantizsekk — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:33:00 GMT

:smileypeace:I knew, what I was buying and I am happy with it. Wifi could be a bit better, but I have a good router at home.. Display viewing angles and collors are poor too, but no drama.

Adreno 320+ hd screen(no need to run full hd like xperia Z) and dual core cpu make it a very powerfull phone. Big battery and led strip are not bad too

The only thing I want now, is a software, that works. And kitkat on the way

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Alex_G29 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:42:44 GMT

New problems start to show up

Dust is piling up under my screen, screen start to flicker from time to time, brightness of the screen is starting to show problems too, and add to that the constant freezing of the phone, and sometimes the on/off button doesn't seem to respond so I have to switch the phone off to get it going again

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Alex_G29 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:44:26 GMT

Btw, I had the impression in the beginning that the Wifi connection got a little bit better but it seems that I'm back to the point where it was before the update, wifi constantly switching off

I have the impression that this is not a software problem but more of a hardware mallfunction.

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:45:46 GMT

why you dont try contact sony or visit customer care center?

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Alex_G29 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:56:19 GMT

Thanks for the link Danial-Mach, it never came up to me, I will try to get in touch with them tomorrow.

Re: One of the strangest phones I have ever owned

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:03:00 GMT

you are welcome

keep us update how it goes