A few nights ago, I’m vacationing at the beach, put down a book, and got ready to go to sleep.
I hear, from across the room, my cell phone (a old Razr) powering up. (Got a new battery recently, which works, is charged, and hasn’t done anything weird lately — but that can’t be it, can it?)
I go and turn it off… though it only goes black, it doesn’t do the power-down chime. It powered off too fast.
I turn it off again. Same deal… turns itself on 30 seconds later, with the tell-tale power on chime.
I try to go back to sleep… and I hear it powering up.
This is sort of like one of those things out of a bad (recent) horror movie, but (A) I don’t believe in ghosts, and (B) I don’t think most of them can hack on cell phone firmware.
Though it would be awesome if there was a ghost who used to work for Ericsson haunting hotel rooms at the beach.
Trying it a few days later it won’t power down, but doesn’t do the “turn myself on thing”.
I wonder if I’m being tracked (by the Sweedish Mafia) so I turn it off. Nice.
Screw it, I’m getting an iPhone.
iPhones have their own set of problems, unfortunately. I recently ran into the one where the on-screen battery indicator was reporting a full charge when the battery was actually almost dead. The phone shut itself off in the middle of a conference call.
That’s really the first issue I’ve run into, though, and it hasn’t happened again.
Yeah hope that isn’t super-common. Anyway, I’ll be happy to be rid of the extra slow booting java phones. Grrr…