So yeah... I got my 5th Touch Pro replacement yesterday... Sales rep walked out from the back with a tiny Touch Pro box... I said, "That's either a new Touch Pro box, with absolutely nothing; A brand new "core" handset; or a ****ty Refurb...."
Sure enough, it's the ****ty refurb...
So Sales rep takes it out of the box... I see this ugly *** yellow tape(still on it actually) covering the power and volume buttons...
So he turns it on, does that boot up thingy, aligns the screen... and hands it to me.... No clue why... Soo I grab it, I instantly notice the battery cover is bubbled on both sides where they clip to the handset toward the top 1/3 portion and there's a gap going from there to the bottom of the phone... ookay... So he fails at putting on a battery cover. Thanks.
So I quickly go to fix that before the battery bends or something...
What the **** is that.. there's a black dust covering the inside of the battery cover like a lipoly up inside of it at one point... Nice... OH AND HEY!! Surprise! Battery doesn't even seat in the battery compartment flat, it keeps popping out. So awesome! So I push on it, it springs back up... Ask the sales rep... ummm something is messed with the battery...
He asks for the battery cover, I put it on the table... He looks at it... and is like.... "What happened to the inside...." It was like that dude... He pulls the battery out and hands it to the repair dude in the back... And I hear him lol, "What the **** is with the battery, why is it doing that???"
So... One min later turns around with the phone... And he's like, "Yeah, it should be fine..........." He takes my other battery cover and is like, which one do you want? And i'm like, "I'll take both..."
So I'm holding the phone again and he tells me the run down of stuff, as usual... and we part...
So I'm outside of the store with my friends staring at this already displeasing phone and I turn it on...Whilst doing so I notice the gap between the screen and keyboard when closed... has a freakin 1mm gap on the opened side... What the hell... So my phone is like a talking shoe... Just awesome...
At this point i'm like goddamnit... whatever. 5 mins pass and the phone doesn't even boot up p***** the TOUCH PRO and the red diagnostics at the bottom...
My buddy takes the phone and does like a hard reset on it.... So that got it to work... thankfully... Because the store was closing as we left.
Sooo... Yeah.
I got a cosmetically defective phone...
It gets ****tier once the phone is on because programs keep crashing with error reports back to back...
I go into the device info to see it's build date...
My last phone was an awesome February build that ran near perfect sans a bit of lag and the dead keyboard after 2 months....
Well this one is a first gen ROM with a November 11th build date... holy ****, you've got to be kidding me. I was hoping they burnt these suckers a long time ago...
So... I decide to just load up my SPB Backup and recover my last handset... So the programs and processes are somewhat stable now... Thanks god... Every time I would boot it up yesterday, I would get like 5 crash reports...
I also noticed on the exploded battery cover that it said 3.0MP and no HTC logo... It was weird... and it was obviously a respray as the golden color was thick and had a much different gummy feeling compared to the usual gummy feeling of my last 4 phones... Thank god I kept my last battery cover...
So yeah... This replacement is pretty much a POS... I'll give a week before the screen falls off... Which I forgot to mention has a weird silver border that doesn't really match the hardware buttons...
Oh well... Keyboard works though...