MM-9000 Dropped 1 2 many times!!(ALL 9000 MEMBERS MUST READ!!)

[pacman9900]

ohh my god HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I neeed all my sanyo 9000 club members to come together and help me out on this one. Im wondering if any one has ever had this problem before! Ok everybody has dropped there phone I few times! I had my phone since november and I had to drop it atleast 20 times! some how it just slips out of your hand. It makes you feel like "whats the chances??" :irked: Well this morning must of been all my baby could take I was on a call and my phone slipped out my hand I was fumbling it atleast 4 times trying to save it but the concreate was calling and smack!!! right on its back!! when I picked up the phone, the call was still running and everything seemed fine just like before until.. . . . .. ............ I tried to text my friend and it said(network Problem-cause code 3) then I tired an alternate way and sending it during a call "that always goes faster" and this time it said(General Error-Cause code 107) what the hell is a general error??? I had atleast 5 bars!!! Man I never seen this before I was so frustrated I just wanted to get a paint ball gun and blast everyboy that passes me. Well I called lock line and they told me 7-10 day wait cause its on back order!! I was so upset I cant text message for 2 weeks straight that is gonna kill me!!! plus I dont want know recondition MM-9000 I didnt even know they existed AND I WORK HERE!!! Has anyone got a replacment 9000 before??? was it new or reconditioned? I NEED ANSWERS AND SOME HELP DAMN IT HURTS!!:fingers:

[Scrumptious]

I saw where 2 folks got brand new ones but that was months ago. I have only dropped my 9000 4 or 5 times since I got it in Dec. I keep a case on it too so no major damage looking at it. My brothers looks like a cat got a hold to it because he answered a call while phone was not in case it slipped out of his hand and down the incline on his driveway. He will never baby that phone like he did before now. Kinda like your car after it is wrecked.

Hope you got a back up or something until it gets there I have my 5600 on standby I can't go without service I have no landline.

[CrazyX]

it might be covered under ESRP if you have it!

take it to the store first <3

[beof]

Wirelessly posted (Treo 650: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320)

if its still under warranty all you gotta do is take it to any sprint store, tell them your problem and they will give you another phone (all shiny and brand new looking and acting- yes it will probably be reconditioned, but it looks and acts brand new and comes with a full warranty). I dropped my treo 650 like 5 times (on rocky gravel concrete) and badly scratched the front and the back (i hated looking at my phone after that, I like my stuff to look new and shiny). Anyways noticed I was getting sh*tty battery life (only like 2 or 3 hrs) so I took it to a sprint store and told the lady about the battery life (i was telling the truth) and she ordered me another Treo 650 and it came with a 1 year warranty (tight). Got my new celly in like 4 or 5 days and the bad boy was all shiny and brand new looking, in the plastic and had the new Sprint Nextel logo on it to. I aint payin' lockline a nickel (unless my phone is lost or destroyed). That's the only good thing bout sprint. They still suck though. Funny cuz it turned out that Chatter was the reason my battery was draining so fast (trouble authenticating account repeatedly causing battery drainage due to constrant transmitting). Anyways head to your sprintNextel store, and get yo free replacement. nuff said.

[reemusk]

You'll be okay, beof sounds about right

[Ronkh]

numerous threads on texting problems today
http://sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102467

and about 5 more in teh vision/mm section

so hold tight, prolly not the phone

[VibrantRedGT]

I got my 9000 replaced from Lockline. Not that the first one broke but instead I ran it over with my creeper. Lockline gave me a brand spanking new one in the box (Manuals, USB, charger, headphones, sd, etc.). This was in March.

[pacman9900]

I got my 9000 replaced from Lockline. Not that the first one broke but instead I ran it over with my creeper. Lockline gave me a brand spanking new one in the box (Manuals, USB, charger, headphones, sd, etc.). This was in March.


Damn hommie they hooked you up!! hope I get the same treatment. See when your an employee with sprint there are good things and bad things! there so strick with security that I cant even get my own technician to approve me an exchnage at my store I gotta go to a whole different one and I work until 6pm at a kiosk on AFFES(SO BORING) But i didnt have to pay lockline a dime she said its covered I wasnt gonna argue I just want my phone!! I mean if I could live without texting I would but I CANT!!!!! I need it to get ringtones and text all my *****s and especially my Ho...... you get my drift :lol:

[dkiger]

hehe yeah texting is messed up... but this doesnt give you the ok to drop the phone more :)

[pacman9900]

hehe yeah texting is messed up... but this doesnt give you the ok to drop the phone more :)

yo mad people was calling me telling me there text messages was acting up was it really a error??? damn so Im getting a replacment for nothing?? man if its reconditioned it better not be $ucked up :irked: my phone has took alot of beatin's All I really needed was a new housing case but now im getting another phone whoo hoo!! And I thought it was cause I dropped it!!! Well I dont wanna talk to soon :indiff:

[reemusk]

numerous threads on texting problems today
http://sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102467

and about 5 more in teh vision/mm section

so hold tight, prolly not the phone


now HE'S right........it may be the 9000 issue and you just have a matter of coincidence!

[YPG]

I got two brand new ones from LL but a refurb at the Sprint store.

[pacman9900]

I got two brand new ones from LL but a refurb at the Sprint store.


damn how you got 3 you got 3 phone lines? or you just had that many accidents with your phones

[YPG]

damn how you got 3 you got 3 phone lines? or you just had that many accidents with your phones

lol
actually
I lost My 7500
they sent Me a 9000
had issues
they sent Me another
had issues
went to the Sprint store
refurb
more issues
went back to the Sprint store
threw a fit
got a brand spanking new 7500
:) :) :)

[KAT]

Dude, I know accidents happen, most people drop their phones at some time or other, but 20 times? I'm surprised there's any phone left to return, although I admit the 9000 can be slippery. Haven't dropped mine once...... yet

[james2K]

lol
actually
I lost My 7500
they sent Me a 9000
had issues
they sent Me another
had issues
went to the Sprint store
refurb
more issues
went back to the Sprint store
threw a fit
got a brand spanking new 7500
:) :) :)

wow it's like you got every lemon 9000 ever made :lol: I got mine in early Jan and it's never done anything strange or had an issue.

[Marlon_JB2]

Darn. I want my 7500 to have problems so I can join the 9000 club. :hee:

j/k, but it was the phone I originally wanted. darn store was out of stock. oh well.

[Jonathanlc2005]

if you dropped it, i dont think it should be bad unless you crack it hard. i have a leather case on my phone but while i was running in the house with my girlfriend(dont ask) i knocked my cell phone, non antenna side, againt the corner of the wall. but it works still as good

[pacman9900]

if you dropped it, i dont think it should be bad unless you crack it hard. i have a leather case on my phone but while i was running in the house with my girlfriend(dont ask) i knocked my cell phone, non antenna side, againt the corner of the wall. but it works still as good

wow I hate when those things happen my cell phones used to look so fresh and clean now its has so many dinks and bumps its crazy!! the worse fall was one afternoon when when I was comming down the esculator off the train from work and some how (god only knows why) it flew off my clip and smacked on the ground like from 45 ft up. Still going strong!! Sanyo makes a durable product I Think anybody can vouch for that! aside from there old problem they fixed thank god! with the newer models! with the hinge getting damaged or cracking and getting loose. :deal:

[Jonathanlc2005]

yeah so 9000 are not only big and reliable but i wouldnt worry too much about it. but, i still have a TEP just in case its lost, stolen, or gets sand in it (stewie griffin: i dont want to get sand it the camel, once you get it in, you cant get it out)

[NANI198]

Damn hommie they hooked you up!! hope I get the same treatment. See when your an employee with sprint there are good things and bad things! there so strick with security that I cant even get my own technician to approve me an exchnage at my store I gotta go to a whole different one and I work until 6pm at a kiosk on AFFES(SO BORING) But i didnt have to pay lockline a dime she said its covered I wasnt gonna argue I just want my phone!! I mean if I could live without texting I would but I CANT!!!!! I need it to get ringtones and text all my *****s and especially my Ho...... you get my drift :lol:
WORD ON THAT HOMIE!!!!!! LOL

I haven't droppped my Sanyo 9000 yet, but I have the back part of the leather case on it with the holster clip (leather cases double as a holster) more durable than holsters.Sprint holsters are ok......but I gotta hand it too nextel for making awesome holsters!!! back to the point. Maybe you have butterfingers?? lol jk stop dropping your 9000 I know its really exciting to have!! this phone has been on my account for three months a record for me! lol :lol:

[mobleaudio]

I had problems with my 7400. I called CS multiple times ,and they finally agreed to replace it, the tech actually made notes saying to give me another 7400 or a 5600. The store offered me an 8300 or a 5500. I said no downgrades. They gave me a 5600 ,the only one in the store, that had been turned in from a customer, but all they did was erase the memory but it still had the old beat up case. The phone works fine, just not as pretty as I keep all of mine. Oh well, it works..

[pacman9900]

lol
actually
I lost My 7500
they sent Me a 9000
had issues
they sent Me another
had issues
went to the Sprint store
refurb
more issues
went back to the Sprint store
threw a fit
got a brand spanking new 7500
:) :) :)


yo what issues did it have???? if it was new it shouldnt have issues but im guessing your talking about the refurb damn I hate those things why do they clear them to send out if they knoe its a possiblity of being bugged

[pacman9900]

I got my 9000 replaced from Lockline. Not that the first one broke but instead I ran it over with my creeper. Lockline gave me a brand spanking new one in the box (Manuals, USB, charger, headphones, sd, etc.). This was in March.

By the way it sucks to be me U.P.S came to my house yesterday at 5pm with my repleacment phone but I was here at sprint working, and dont get off until 6pm. I live like 30 minutes driving distance from my job to my crib so there was know way I was gonna catch em. Im hoping it was brandnew!!! The Rep told me that it was on back order for the refurbs and it was gone be 7-10 day wait! PLEASE BE NEW PLEEEEEEEASE!!! LOL good thing I dont work monday its comming again Imma post what it is cause refrubs usually have bugs!! its a 50/50 chance! :fingers:

[VibrantRedGT]

I hope you get a new one. When it says refurb its just not the same. Good luck and let us know what you get.

[K_Watson]

Two days ago, I had a guy come to my Shack to get a replacement for a 7300, and when I asked what happened to his current one he said it fell. When I asked how far it fell, he said "45 feet onto a steel platform. For the THIRD TIME." (This guy does "I" beam welding for a living.) So basicly his 7300 survived 2 falls from 45 feet. When I saw it, it looked well used. The silver paint was completly rubbed off, it was covered with pits from tiny dropplets of molten steel, and the speaker grill was completely covered with tiny beads of steel. Now that is a durable phone. Sadly he needed a new phone immediatly, and all I had as far as an inexpensive durable phone was a 3100. We had sold our last 7300 3 months ago to another guy who just wanted something cheap. Now I wish I had not sold thet other guy the 7300 so I could have given the welder a phone that would last...

[KAT]

I hope you get a new one. When it says refurb its just not the same. Good luck and let us know what you get.
I guess I got lucky with my 7400 re-furb replacement, it was brand new in every way, even had the clear plastic protectors on the inner and outer displays. I was totally happy with it. (till I found the 9000 :hee:)

[CrazyX]

take it to a sprint store! :tu:

[KAT]

Dude, I know accidents happen, most people drop their phones at some time or other, but 20 times? I'm surprised there's any phone left to return, although I admit the 9000 can be slippery. Haven't dropped mine once...... yet
It's a good thing I said 'yet' about dropping my phone. Just last night at the bar, my phone was sitting on the bar, right in front of me, with the earbud jack plugged into the phone. I was making all kinds of hand gestures as I was talking to my buddy sitting next to me, when my moving arms caught on to the earbud wire, launching my phone from the bar straight to the floor at incredible speed, 3 times as fast as a normal drop. The sound the phone made hitting the floor was so loud my girl heard it, with the jukebox blasting, and she was sitting 2 stools down from me. Man, I was horrified. I immediatly picked it up, the outer display was lit up, I opened the phone, everything seemed ok, I ran to the bathroom where there is more light to give it a good look-over. I can't see the slightest ding, or mark anywhere, and so far, everything works perfect, they no doubt build these phones solid to take that kind of licking, and keep on ticking. I think I'll keep my phone in the holster from now on!

[james2K]

*snip*

they no doubt build these phones solid to take that kind of licking, and keep on ticking. I think I'll keep my phone in the holster from now on!

it's true, my phone has gone thru hell but works fine still, I've probably had as many drops as pacman's....i've gotten really careless lately :indiff: no way i'm getting top dollar for this one when it's time to move on :deal:

[Mantue]

ohh my god HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I neeed all my sanyo 9000 club members to come together and help me out on this one. Im wondering if any one has ever had this problem before! Ok everybody has dropped there phone I few times! I had my phone since november and I had to drop it atleast 20 times! some how it just slips out of your hand. It makes you feel like "whats the chances??" :irked: Well this morning must of been all my baby could take I was on a call and my phone slipped out my hand I was fumbling it atleast 4 times trying to save it but the concreate was calling and smack!!! right on its back!! when I picked up the phone, the call was still running and everything seemed fine just like before until.. . . . .. ............ I tried to text my friend and it said(network Problem-cause code 3) then I tired an alternate way and sending it during a call "that always goes faster" and this time it said(General Error-Cause code 107) what the hell is a general error??? I had atleast 5 bars!!! Man I never seen this before I was so frustrated I just wanted to get a paint ball gun and blast everyboy that passes me. Well I called lock line and they told me 7-10 day wait cause its on back order!! I was so upset I cant text message for 2 weeks straight that is gonna kill me!!! plus I dont want know recondition MM-9000 I didnt even know they existed AND I WORK HERE!!! Has anyone got a replacment 9000 before??? was it new or reconditioned? I NEED ANSWERS AND SOME HELP DAMN IT HURTS!!:fingers:

Why do you insist on making a fool out of yourself and comming off as some sort of uneducated idiot bolding everything and using huge fonts, not to mention incorrect forms of the english language.

Next time, cut it off with the retarded cheerleading act.

Thanks.

[pacman9900]

I hope you get a new one. When it says refurb its just not the same. Good luck and let us know what you get.

WELL I FINNALY GOT MY PHONE I GUESS THE WAIT WASNT 7 DAYS. There was a hassle picking it up from a UPS location when I waited 3 hours for the truck delivery man to take all day to touch back at base. The phone was a .................. REFURB! :irked: Damn was I mad but it looked perfectly new and still had demo's in the, games, ringers and apps category. SO maybe it has some new tentacies! LOL So far so good the only two problems I have been getting that I didnt recognize with my last 9000 is lag in downloading my picturemail pics. Often times the EVDO bars will freeze up or take forever to give me data or I get the all black JPG with the "X" in it I hate that!!!! so I gotta keep restarting my phone or updating my profile. If anyone knows any other solutions please share the wealth. But what Im curious about is when will they ever do a new firware update?? I think over the air software update is so amazing I know when you guys first did your mm-9000 (mostly people who baught it within the first 3 months) and you did your Firware update it was so cool how the process is. well atleast to me. My second problem that I noticed was when I try to move ahead of a screen meaning pressing a button or option before the screen comes up the phone will restart on its own like it just cant operate when you try to moves at a fast unpatient pace thru menu's before hand I didnt have that problem with my last 9000 well for now I have a fresh lookin 9000 now I gotta sit here and find all my assigned caller ID pics and re enter all my contacts again 289 WHEW I dont have time to go to the sprint store and wait for them to do it and the kiosk were I work dosnt even come close to having a tech room LOL

ps. I wonder how long until I get my 1st drop again

[w7excursion]

WELL I FINNALY GOT MY PHONE I GUESS THE WAIT WASNT 7 DAYS. There was a hassle picking it up from a UPS location when I waited 3 hours for the truck delivery man to take all day to touch back at base. The phone was a .................. REFURB! :irked: Damn was I mad but it looked perfectly new and still had demo's in the, games, ringers and apps category. SO maybe it has some new tentacies! LOL So far so good the only two problems I have been getting that I didnt recognize with my last 9000 is lag in downloading my picturemail pics. Often times the EVDO bars will freeze up or take forever to give me data or I get the all black JPG with the "X" in it I hate that!!!! so I gotta keep restarting my phone or updating my profile. If anyone knows any other solutions please share the wealth. But what Im curious about is when will they ever do a new firware update?? I think over the air software update is so amazing I know when you guys first did your mm-9000 (mostly people who baught it within the first 3 months) and you did your Firware update it was so cool how the process is. well atleast to me. My second problem that I noticed was when I try to move ahead of a screen meaning pressing a button or option before the screen comes up the phone will restart on its own like it just cant operate when you try to moves at a fast unpatient pace thru menu's before hand I didnt have that problem with my last 9000 well for now I have a fresh lookin 9000 now I gotta sit here and find all my assigned caller ID pics and re enter all my contacts again 289 WHEW I dont have time to go to the sprint store and wait for them to do it and the kiosk were I work dosnt even come close to having a tech room LOL

ps. I wonder how long until I get my 1st drop again
Select all red x's and post them to service to get thumbnails back. If you have your msl code then you can go to ##3282# and go to multimedia,edit,buffersize and change it to 15. OK it and go to done. It will power cycle and thats it. If your phone keeps power cycling from you going to fast then I would do a reflash by calling *2. Congrats on the replacement!

[pacman9900]

Select all red x's and post them to service to get thumbnails back. If you have your msl code then you can go to ##3282# and go to multimedia,edit,buffersize and change it to 15. OK it and go to done. It will power cycle and thats it. If your phone keeps power cycling from you going to fast then I would do a reflash by calling *2. Congrats on the replacement!

thanks man hey how do you know all this??? is this a hack and what exactly does it do? Im gonna get my MSL and try that I havnt been getting the X's since then but will this resolve the issue forever??
:clap:

[w7excursion]

Sorry I wasnt more specific. The select pictures,post to service,update is on your phones menu. Nothin special there,that was to get your thumbnails visible again. Changing the phones buffersize I just decided to try cause I havent heard of anyone trying it. It made my 2 9000's functions faster. I suggested this cause you said you had to kind of slow down or your phone would power cycle.

[pacman9900]

Sorry I wasnt more specific. The select pictures,post to service,update is on your phones menu. Nothin special there,that was to get your thumbnails visible again. Changing the phones buffersize I just decided to try cause I havent heard of anyone trying it. It made my 2 9000's functions faster. I suggested this cause you said you had to kind of slow down or your phone would power cycle.
im not gone f it up im I??? I changed it from 5 to 15

[pacman9900]

Sorry I wasnt more specific. The select pictures,post to service,update is on your phones menu. Nothin special there,that was to get your thumbnails visible again. Changing the phones buffersize I just decided to try cause I havent heard of anyone trying it. It made my 2 9000's functions faster. I suggested this cause you said you had to kind of slow down or your phone would power cycle.


I hope I dont make it up your a genius is it way faster well atleast noticable! how in the world did you figure that out

[w7excursion]

im not gone f it up im I??? I changed it from 5 to 15
No it wont.5 to 15? Mine were set at 7 by default.

[w7excursion]

It kind of sounded like a RAM option to me. Just my opinion though.

[Marlon_JB2]

Wow, thanks for that solution. I've been struggling with that problem since December.

[w7excursion]

Wow, thanks for that solution. I've been struggling with that problem since December.
So you tried it? Do you notice any changes?

[pacman9900]

So you tried it? Do you notice any changes?


how do I use PAM with MM9000

[cutter2668]

You can STILL find the Sanyo mm9000 at Radio SHack stores, now please note that if you hunt for it on the website you will not find it, HOWEVER some stores still have a few. go to radioshack.com and click on store locator, then enter your zipcode and a list of stores in your area will come up, CALL the stores and ask if they have it. I found two of them in my area and bought them both, some stores are even closing as in my area so I bought a new sanyo mm9000 for 40 percent off normal price!!

Also while yo are there, radio shack sells some grip pads that you can apply to your phone that gives is a much better grip so it wont slide out of your hands.

GOOD LUCK, you may have to do some driving but search your area or expand to other nearby cities, you WILL find one but you will have to do your homework and make some phone calls.

[KAT]

You can STILL find the Sanyo mm9000 at Radio SHack stores, now please note that if you hunt for it on the website you will not find it, HOWEVER some stores still have a few. go to radioshack.com and click on store locator, then enter your zipcode and a list of stores in your area will come up, CALL the stores and ask if they have it. I found two of them in my area and bought them both, some stores are even closing as in my area so I bought a new sanyo mm9000 for 40 percent off normal price!!

Also while yo are there, radio shack sells some grip pads that you can apply to your phone that gives is a much better grip so it wont slide out of your hands.

GOOD LUCK, you may have to do some driving but search your area or expand to other nearby cities, you WILL find one but you will have to do your homework and make some phone calls.
Grip pads? Are these for the 9000 specifically or is it a 'one size fits all' deal.

[cutter2668]

no they are not made for the sanyo specifically but you get a pak of the Ez grips pads several of serveral different sizes so you can use them on the front back and sides of the phone, different colors too, they really make a difference and only cost a few dollars I highly recommend them. You could also trim them to whatever size or shape that you wanted. I think they are called Ez grips.

[toddc79]

I was on a call and my phone slipped out my hand I was fumbling it atleast 4 times trying to save it but the concreate was calling and smack!!! right on its back!!

gives new meaning to the words "dropped call"

[pacman9900]

gives new meaning to the words "dropped call"

:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

NOw thats comedy!!!

[pkiphd]

Anyone else have to replace a 9000 with LL lately? I have to call them tomorrow and I'm a little worried since it has been dropped for so long.

[VibrantRedGT]

So I read this thread in the morning then on my way to the car drop my 9000 in the driveway. Curse this thread! Luckily no glass damage. Have a nic by the Sprint logo up front and two little road rash blemishes out back. I thought it be much worse (I'm 6'4 so it was a long way down). Curse you!!!

[NANI198]

I dropped my 9000 last night in my cup holder which was not sprint or the manufactures freakin fault nor are the liable but after that mishap i was receiving an incomming call and my phone froze on the incomming call!! i got scared!!!! i took the battery off no choice and turned it back on luckily it hasnt happened anymore but i shouldnt be taking anger out on the phone!! its my beloved 9000 for petesakes!!!!

[pkiphd]

Well I got my phone, it is an a940. Not too happy, The main LCD sucks but the camera I guess makes up for it. Vision seams faster but no voice ringers etc.... This should keep me happy until the mega3 comes out.

[KAT]

What's a Mega 3? Guess I'm not up to date on this.

[pkiphd]

It's that new samsung with 3.2 camera and swivel screen. Its the same as the verizon a990

[jhoopstar3]

you know any possible release dates for it?

[KAT]

It's that new samsung with 3.2 camera and swivel screen. Its the same as the verizon a990
You mean this one?

[KAT]

Never mind, I found the phone you're talking about, and I must say, from what I saw and read about the phone so far, well, I'm pretty impressed! Looks very interesting, hopefully Sprint decides to go for it. Damn, maybe a Samsung will return to my pouch after all........ yet another wait and see game.