[jimmiekain]

update:

This morning when I woke up I tried it again it still wouldn't work... i kept trying the whole drive to work while at work and even in the car on the way to the sprint store (about 45 min drive from my house with traffic). Got to the sprint store and tried it one last time before I got out of the car. It still didn't work.

Got out of my car got in line tried it again while in line and it still didn't work.

Got the the front of the line the greeter asked for the reason i was visiting today I explained the problem put the phone on the podium to show him turn it on... and the darn thing worked.

WTF????

I almost hit the roof! He looked at me like I was crazy... I said no no no hold on turned it off and back on it still worked. Pulled the battery out put it back in (holding up the line and not caring) tried it again and it worked. He said if you want i can still have a tech look at it. I said yes.

Sat and waited for about 5 mins (kept trying to get it to do it again while waiting and couldn't get it to mess up) The guy came i explained the problem to him and he told me that if he couldn't replicate the problem they couldn't do anything he then said that he would gladly switch it out with a new one for me but that he didnt have any.

Bottom line... it works now. I have no idea what caused the problem. I have no idea what fixed it but it works now. I'm gonna take it back to Best Buy and try to exchange it but i doubt they will have one to exchange for me so i may have to return it for a refund and just buy it again in a few weeks.

Thanks to everyone who offered me words of encouragement and ideas to fix it. As soon as the laker game goes off im gonna go back thru the thread and thank all of the helpful posts.