Random Phone Shutdown fix?....

[firstafro]

I've had my Intrepid pretty much since day 1. The first few months, it would randomly reset, like once a month or so. But more recently (2 months +) it resets like 6 times a day,( and then it just cycles through the Samsung start up sequence, but never actually loads unless I turn it off then plug it in for a while, then hit the power button). This is a huge inconvenience when using google maps, or Bing directions, making both of those programs useless.

I brought my phone to a Sprint store 3-4 times, they take it to the back and "fix" it, not sure what they've done to it, but I'm pretty sure they don't do much.

I finally got a good Sprint tech. He asked me about the issues, then replaced it with a re-furb for free and a new battery. Here is the point of this long post: When he went to sync my messages, he said I have around 3000 txt messages, and that one of the possible reasons it's been crashing, is that the Intrepid stores all the messages in the phones memory, NOT the memory card. When I got home it literally took me about an hour to delete all 3000 texts, and it froze and had to be restarted a bunch of times. Since the deletion, no problem and I can definitely tell a difference after deleting the texts. (although this could be due to a "fresh" phone too)

So just an FYI, if your phone crashes a lot, and for no reason... Try and Delete some text messages.

Hope this helps someone!