Does your RAZR freeze?

Ray Zenz · July 2006

just a quick ?...i have the RAZR from verizon wireless, it freezes and shuts off on me for no reason? Does this happen to anyone else..anyone know if i can just take it back to the store and receive a new one?

MrNightly · July 2006

My buddy had the RAZR. Piece of junk. After less than a year, it was totally broken and fritzed out. Trade it out for a more reliable phone such as Nokia or Motorola.

brettw22 · July 2006

Why would you just arbitrarily just accept that your phone freezes and shuts down. If you haven't done anything to damage it, get your tail back in there and get a replacement........period.

Kris Siegel · July 2006

I know people with Razrs and they always have problems. I've seen a lot of complaints about the phone snapping in half.

masanz1 · July 2006

I love my Razr..zero problems

dorokusai · July 2006

I've worked in wireless telecom for 10+ years and the best phone I've owned so far is the Nokia 2190, that was 8 years ago and MANY phones ago. It's a shame they don't make them like that anymore.

exalted512 · July 2006

MrNightly wrote:

My buddy had the RAZR. Piece of junk. After less than a year, it was totally broken and fritzed out. Trade it out for a more reliable phone such as Nokia or Motorola.

RAZR is Motorola...

MrNightly · July 2006

exalted512 wrote:

RAZR is Motorola...

Hmmm. Got me there. I didn't know that. Try a Motorola that actually works then.

I'm a big NOKIA fan myself. Sturdy, rugged, drop proof

Kris Siegel · July 2006

I was a huge Panasonic fan with their older phones. I had a black and white screen one that worked perfectly after being submerged under 6 feet of water during a floor for about an hour. It was on the whole time and when I realized I had it in my pocket, I pulled it out and it was fine. I think I even received a message while it was under water.

Unfortunately, after that the screen randomly displayed upside down but only when you turned it on (and if it did, it corrected itself after being hit once or twice).

Best phone I've ever had. Still works, actually.

Unfortunately they make almost no phones anymore and from the reviews I've read, they've gone down hill.

michael_w · July 2006

A few people at school own razr's and have mentioned it freezes occasionally. I think when I decide to upgrade my phone the samsung e900 is on my list to check out.

danger boy · July 2006

i've had my Razr for about a year now.. i have managed to drop it nearly every day.. it still works but freezes all the time. i'm to cheap to get a new one. plus I can't decide which one to get.

bknauss · July 2006

The freezing is a firmware issue. There are explainations on the net about how to update firmware... takes a bit of googling though.

Had my RAZR for several months and have had no issues. I'm just not a fan of the user interface... my Nokia was much better in that department. But the RAZR has better reception.

wingnut4772 · July 2006

No problems with mine.

brettw22 · July 2006

michael_w wrote:

A few people at school own razr's and have mentioned it freezes occasionally. I think when I decide to upgrade my phone the samsung e900 is on my list to check out.

That Samsung is going to be the equivelant of the Verizon LG Chocolate (VX8500)

PhantomOG · July 2006

i loved my old moto startac but in my opinion their phones have been pretty much junk since then.

i don't know about other carriers, but with verizon, LG has been awesomefor me. very sturdy phones with no problems whatsoever. i tried a samsung once and it sucked. so i went back to LG.

Airplay355 · July 2006

I bought a verizon razr v3c...verizon **** up that phone royally, they messed with the programming and such and i hated it! what a POS. I returned it within my 14 day grace period because i hated it so much. I bought a razr v3i instead. it is excellent! I have tmobile as a service and it's the best and most fun phone i've ever had. i have a silicone case on it, and i've only dropped it once. no scratches or anything, but it hit the concrete pretty hard, no damage to it at all. then again the case on mine is aluminum, i think the v3c is plastic. i'm not a big fan of verizon. tmobile will always be my favorite.

about it freezing, mine froze once, windows xp style, but corrected itself within a few seconds and all the commands it had stored from me mashing buttons were carried out at once, other then that, absolutely no problems at all. if you can, i'd ditch the stupid verizon razr. grab a v3i or v3x maybe even a slvr l6 and pick whatever service provider you want (the benefit of unlocked gsm phones

.

I put my girlfriends nextel sim in my razr when her battery died and it worked fine, the only thing she couldn't do was use the useless bleep feature because my razr doesn't have that. whatever...i love my razr

Ray Zenz · July 2006

well right now i need to stick with verizon...any better phone that verizon carries?...and verizon just came out with a new razr..the V3m...with like the new interface and whatnot, if i can upgrade to that for cheap somehow i think ill try it...

maybe this one...
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Toxis · July 2006

I've had my razr for about 6-7 months now and it has randomly shut itself off once. That is it. The girlfried who got hers the same day hasn't had a single problem yet. I love motorola phones. Great durability. I sold Nokia phones about 5-6 years ago and HATED THEM! Look like crap, built like ****, lasted 36 hours. No thanks. I'm sure they've changed by now but they still look like butt. Samsung and Sanyo also make great phones IMO.

mutelight · July 2006

I have never owned a RAZR but when I had the Motorola V710 and I had a very similar issue. It usually happened when I was scrolling through my phonebook the screen would get real bright, lock up, then restart itself. I have had a bad track record with Motorola phones. My carrier is VZW as well and the phone I have right now (one of the PDA phones) I absolutely love. The only problem I have had with it was I completely destroyed the screen which was totally my fault. Luckily I went for the replacement plan and within 1 business day I had a brand new unit in the retail box and everything.

faster100 · July 2006

I got my wife the pink razr phone and we use cingular.. no problems yet and she's had it for several months..

I just got a silvr L6 and like it as well, not quite as nice display or reception as the razr but it works fine..

Airplay355 · July 2006

The v3m is POINTLESS. Vezizon took out the obex code in the phones OS so the only way to transfer things like music and pictures to and from your computer is to pay for it by using their stupid Vcast ****. That's why I got tmobile. I can hook up my phone to the comp with a regular mini usb cable and download things back and forth. It even has a mini sd slot for adding extra memory. the m in the v3m is supposed to be Multimedia, however it's multimedia you have to pay for. Vcast is a subscription service and you need to have access to it (you need to be in the vcast range or whatever) to download things like that. I think it's dumb, but I guess there's a market for it. I like to be able to transfer rintones I;ve made and background images to my phone and i like to be able to transfer pictures from my phone to my computer. I don't want to pay for that. I got my phone unlocked with a tmobile 2 year contract at www.mobilebee.com. The only thing I can't use is the internet (downloading ringtones and surfing the web). That's because the tmobile software is not on the phone. You can take them to your service provider and have the OS or whatever changed so you can do things like that but then if you switch sim cards it's a PITA. I'd rather just keep it unlocked and untainted so i can switch from provider to provider. Plus, if i need ringtones I can transfer them to my phone with a USB cable and moto phone tools.

I like moto phones the best. Maybe give this one a try Motorola E815. If not I'd go to Samsung. I hate LG's. They don't handle drops very well.

HiPerf360 · July 2006

My wife has had a razr for over a year and no problems but i hate the user interface.

I picked up the samsung A900 a few months ago and i love it.

POLKOHOLIC · July 2006

MrNightly wrote:

My buddy had the RAZR. Piece of junk. After less than a year, it was totally broken and fritzed out. Trade it out for a more reliable phone such as Nokia or Motorola.

a razr is a motorola....kind of contradicting ourselves are we?

brettw22 · July 2006

Posts 7 and 8 clarified that.

Demiurge · July 2006

That point was covered already.

While there are cheap phones out there, most of it comes down to how you take care of them. I've heard of issues with the RAZRs, and BKnauss has stated. Take it back.

Airplay355 · July 2006

Hopefully you can take it back. Go to a Verizon store and get some technical support. Provided it's under warranty and there aren't signs of abuse, they should fix it/replace it if they can't fix it. I still don't like verizon though, bad experiences. Sorry you are stuck with them!

Edit: here's the razr i got BTW.

michael_w · July 2006

Adding to some derail action here ~~ I've already looked into the LG KG800 (chocolate) and have read that the samsung is a much better phone. Not sure about that version of the chocolate (maybe a north american version?). I especially like the better camera in the samsung. I like the looks of the lg better, but I'd much rather go for quality with looks than just looks alone

Ray Zenz · July 2006

well guys i went to the verizon store today and guess what...they upgraded my software for free, it took about a half hour and i was late to work but oh well, now i just have to re-download my games for free but other than that it seems to be fine right now...

and it just amazes me to hear how many of you who are out there that havent had a single problem with their RAZR...2 of my friends have the same problem, i see alt of random people at stores and what not who are taking their RAZR apart and taking the battery out and putting it back in, and a bunch of people i know have had major problems with getting dust underneath their screen but i havent had a problem with that...

oh and for all of you who like free music and photos and file transfers to their phones...i know the perfect web site and it is free...even to verizon phones..

http://mobile17.smashsworld.com/

Airplay355 · July 2006

You upgraded the firmware? So now you have the ugly orange background on the outside screen right? When you used to have a background picture there? Yea I upgraded my firmware too, for free, and it was still a POS.

I wanted to be able to edit and create my own ringtones and transfer them to my phone and transfer the pics from my phone to my comp. You can't do that with verizon phones without hacking the OS. Moto phone tools only lets your phone sync with the comp and share contacts.

Do you have a case for ur razr? If you drop it alot, or if it gets dusty from being in ur pocket you might want to look into a cheap case for i. They seem to help alot with prolonging the life of your phone.

I've never had dust under the screen BTW. Taking the battery out? I dunno mine's very well behaved. Maybe I got a good one from the batch. It's from Thailand lol

Ray Zenz · July 2006

yup lol, ive been tryin to get an outside background for the bast 20mins or so...guess it isnt happening...

well the new firmware seems fine so far

i do have a case for it

ya takin the battery out resets the handset i suppose...

oh crud i gotta go, i will post more later

Does your RAZR freeze?

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