[Rational Dreamer]

Whatever it is that is wrong with the touch pro 2 is no little thing. I have had mine replaced a zillion times with no improvement. Moreover, I have used solutions -such as the clean & tweak cabs (I forget the author's name but he did a great job and I do want to be clear on that because the cab does help) - that have worked for others with only minor success. Hence, why I believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with some -more than a few- touch pro 2's out there and it has been my unfortunate luck to get a string of them. In my case, removing the push function did little more than extend my battery life. The obnoxious amount of bloatware might be part of the problem but it is not the whole problem.

A list of my problems: (any similar experiences?)

SLOWer than molases (my Apache runs circles around it!)

portions of the screen do not update

forget task switching with the task manager

text someone and must keep phone out of holster or pocket and must keep hand out of the way of antenna and even then SLOW!!!

switch from portrait to landscape is a toss up between slow and soft reset.

buttons -soft and hardwired- unresponsive; ending a call is -at best- a toss up...

given the aforementioned, the amazing ability of the phone to "butt dial" even when supposedly locked is puzzling.

given that programs such as word, excel, power point, and opera, are in rom, they are slower to start than on my Apache.

when programs like opera do work, they use only half or less of the screen!

...yes, I probably should take it to sprint but having done so a seemingly interminable number of times, I am now looking for another way out. I had planned on this phone lasting as long as the Apache did, I did not plan on the Apache coming out of retirement or having to replace this one within the first two years (waiting for one to last more than a month or two)

So John, you are far from alone and it is not the number of texts (while I do text as much as most and more than some, I archive them with a program that exports them as xml so I never have more than 2 or 3 messages and 2 or 3 conversations) that causes the slowness or the presence or absence of push (I do thank you for the suggestions as I have tried that in the past) and hence the first line. A four hundred dollar phone should not suffer from throwaway phone problems.