[aven_soulgazer]

I live in the country where Sprint's 3g is my only form of "broadband" which really sucks for me, so no airave.

Went 40 miles to the Sprint store. Tech has it for a whole 5 minutes and comes back and tells me the signal and battery tests are fine and have to call insurance.

I'd managed an hour conversation with it last night. 8 bars of power to start with, dead after an hour and very hot. My finger tips are sore like a burn from a hot plate or such. I think that was probably from pulling the battery out of the phone. Vibrate no longer works.

Phone was fully charged when I left for the store. 40 miles with only a couple of texts, no wifi, one website pulled up, and the phone is almost half dead by the time I get there. But the battery test says it's fine.

Called Sprint, very friendly lady gets on hold with another department, puts me on hold for a while, finally comes back and says they won't do anything for me and I have to go through Assurion. Call up Assurion, finally talk to someone, tell him my issues. He forwards me on to another guy. He tells me the department I need to talk to doesn't work on the weekends and they'll call me 24 to 48 hours. I assume he means starting monday. They tell me to pull the battery out and to never put it back in because it overheated. Asked for a phone number for the department to call me at, my cell phone is my only real form of communication. Plus I have out job applications and resumes and that is my only contact number listed. I shall see what happens but I have to keep using this phone anyway. Just no long phone convo's and charging.