Thread: I'm officially on my 2nd Pre and so far I am pretty unhappy.

Quote: Originally Posted by blatherdrift the pre is slow to activate. That's normal Yeah, but 3 hours? That's a bit long. My first Pre activated lickety split. Quote: Originally Posted by buyrihn 2nd phone? Rookie! I'm on my 7th. Palm's officially offered to give me my money back, and help me get out of Sprint's contract as of today. All I want is a working Pre. Dude That sucks. Why haven't they offered to put...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kamen Dude That sucks. Why haven't they offered to put you in to a new style phone if you have had that many replacements? Apparently, their system is set-up to deal with replacement phones on a "new" or "refurbished" status. Although there is a new build, it's not offered or talked about, because most customers have no idea that there is even a new build out. They...

the pre is slow to activate. That's normal

I got my first pre on lunch day ,but saturday after up date to 1.3.1 the usb stop working so they order me one and i just got it today it took and hour to get it activated. Don,t know how to check the warranty day,but it look brand new no Oreo effect ,but like 15 dead pixels or stock pixel don't know.It show that i have 12 voice messages and when i go to my voice mail it says you don't have any voice mail. I try to upgrade to 1.3.1...

It took around an hour to activate mine -- I bought it on launch day. They gave up at the store and I took it home and finished it there.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kamen ... It took them close to 3 hours to activate the new phone. When I asked why they tried to say that was normal. Dude I wasn't born yesterday. Before this, the longest an activation ever took for any phone of mine was like 10 minutes. ... To be fair, they may have been telling you the truth, and it may not be related to your Pre. My "launch day Pre" took over 45 minutes to get...

the Sprint store here takes an average of 1 hour and thats counting for minor issues and bad signal (you walk to the door of the store you have full signal you walk 10 feet into the store you have 1 bar of roaming lol).