Cellphone issue - Powers down randomly

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Phone - Casio G’ZOne Type S - Verizon Wireless
Age- Approx. 2 months
Symptoms - Worked great until yesterday, when it decided to start randomly powering off. As of today, the only way I can get it to turn on is to leave it sitting for an extended period of time and it will start and work for a few minutes then turn off. Occasionally I will get an error message stating “Battery Required” when I attempt to start the phone.

Phone has never seen water, and is water-resistant, shock resistant, and is billed as being incredibly durable.

Pretty damn pissed if you ask me. Wondering if there’s any tricks I can do to get it working again or if I should just take it to the tech center on McKinley (i ordered it from the VZW site)

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Could be bad firmware.

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Is there a way to fix that without sending it back, or am I screwed there?

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call the fru hotline

866-406-5154

they should send you a replacement, and then you send the old one back with a prepaid shipping lable

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I know my ENV does that… but thats just cause its in my pocket lol

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The battery might be losing connection to the phone… this happened to my old one. just take some paper, just a little, and shim the back of the battery to make it fit snugger against the connecters. hope that helps, worked for me…

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my brother has this same phone and it’s been randomly shutting off too and some other weird things he told me about but i only half listened… that’s about all i have to offer to this thread.

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Hmm, worth giving a try.

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its under warranty for a yr, you should be able to go to the store and get and in store replacement

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So I got it replaced. No biggie, no questions asked.

And a new issue with the new phone, and I really do not feel like sending it back AGAIN.

When I first answer an incoming call, I get an alternating tone that occurs for the first second or 2 before connecting to the call. It is EXTREMELY annoying, and like I said, I do not feel like going back to the tech center location on McKinley, again, or sending it thru the mail.

Is this something that anyone else has ever run into on a phone of theirs?

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dude. :ham:

your phone is set to answer call when you open it. you are pressing send as well. thats why its doing that.

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rofl my copter.

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Oh my.

I honestly did not even think to check for that setting. Even more so, I think that setting effing SUCKS.

I suck as well for being so dumb.

I :picard: myself on this one.

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some people love that setting.

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Ugh, I for one hate that setting, and was not aware the phone was preprogrammed to answer calls that way.

Either way, I’m an effing 'tard.