The screen won’t go dark at the preset 7 seconds… or any number of seconds, apparently. So, the battery drains like it’s trying to get a signal from Pluto. Which is, in fact, still a planet. A dwarf planet, but that’s still real – right? I mean, it’s not like the movie is suddenly called, “Snow White and the Seven _______”?<\/div>\n
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Anyway, it sucks. I charged it up last night and this afternoon I’m already down to one battery bar – which doesn’t mean anything, apparently. I’ve seen it sit on one bar for days (though not recently) and other times I’ll go from full bars to a plaintive beeping as it approaches shutdown in minutes.<\/div>\n
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You know, I’m pretty much indifferent to smart phones. People that have them seem to enjoy them. I’m on a computer 8+ hours a day so I kinda like to unplug. But I don’t begrudge them. <\/div>\n
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I don’t have a smart phone. I have an ordinary phone. Which apparently translates to “non-functional”.<\/div>\n
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The really crappy part is that I can’t even enjoy hating them since I’m stuck in another 2 year contact. Ugh.<\/div>\n
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I’m going to try a factory reset and a cell tower reset when I get home and see if that fixes the “no bars of any kind” issues I’m having. If not, I’m going back to the Verizon store. I don’t care how shiny the phone is, I’m really getting tired of paying too much money a month for a phone that doesn’t work.<\/div>\n
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