Phone device crash!

medicnick83

medicnick83

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This morning I wake up to find my Neotel phone device has crashed.
The LCD is all phucked up... like funny characters and such.
I can't seem to turn it off the normal way so I pull out the battery and put it back in and restart the phone and it's all good for now.

:eek:

Interesting...

Anyone else have this happen to them?
 
gdiza said:
This morning I wake up to find my Neotel phone device has crashed.
The LCD is all phucked up... like funny characters and such.
I can't seem to turn it off the normal way so I pull out the battery and put it back in and restart the phone and it's all good for now.

:eek:

Interesting...

Anyone else have this happen to them?
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Yip, this has happened a number of times to me. About a month to two months ago, when there was apparently an issue with the base station, it happened on a regular basis.

It hasn't happened recently though, but i am not sure whether this is due to the base station being fixed or due to me having a different device as i went through 3 devices trying to sort the problem out before they found out it was base station related.
 
I've had the same issue, but it's only happened 3 times since I joined Neotel so I generall ignore it. I think it's temperature related (at least with me it happened on really hot days).
 
Garbled display on neotel prime device

I too got this garbled display 2 days after I received my device. It would go bonkers every 5-7min.
Tried everything but no one could help. Eventually found that it was windows xp creating this error on the deivce. I reloaded windows and never had the prob again.
 
Mine has stopped doing it, but since I got it, I'm sure the software was updated (probably remotely somehow)

Mine happened to crash every 2 days basically, but yeah, it has stopped doing that now.

*touch wood*
 
Hi all,

This has started happening again, this time it's worse.
My phone crashes daily.
Every morning I wake up to find my PC trying to dial and a error saying there is a hardware failure.
I unplug the phone and turn it on and it's back to working (for now)

:mad:
 
Sounds like you may need to swap that device out.
 
Your device seems to be exhibiting issues with the hardware. I will have to qury this with the techie - he is currently on the road, so your response may be delayed.
 
Neotel said:
Your device seems to be exhibiting issues with the hardware. I will have to qury this with the techie - he is currently on the road, so your response may be delayed.
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Ag, you know me, I'm patient.

What would be nice is when and if decided it's faulty, arranging to have it swopped out (bring me a new device and take this one back and throw it against a wall)

I will FREAK if I have to sit without internet again so I want to avoid this.
 
I didn't know that the Neotel device runs Windows!

:D

This used to happen to me occasionally. Maybe you should see if they can do a device swapout - must be something faulty if it happens so often.

B.
 
gdiza said:
This morning I wake up to find my Neotel phone device has crashed.
The LCD is all phucked up... like funny characters and such.
I can't seem to turn it off the normal way so I pull out the battery and put it back in and restart the phone and it's all good for now.

:eek:

Interesting...

Anyone else have this happen to them?
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No
 
This has happen to me only twice, last year sometime and about 2 weeks ago.

Could be base station related!

My handset works like a charm, no problems with the device so far.
 
I've started unplugging my device (power) before I leave for work in the morning.
Basically restarting it, I don't even have the battery in, and it seems to have stopped the problem.

It happens every set time, like if it's on for 24 hours or so, then it hangs.
 
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