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Hello, hoping someone can shed some light on a serious problem I'm having with my 8530. Got it back in April, worked fine for a few months then started to drain battery faster than usual. It got so bad about a month ago that a 10 minute call would kill a fully charged battery. I went to my local sprint store and they ordered a replacement. Within an hour of having the new phone it randomly rebooted itself and the battery was dead. A few hours later it did it again. I removed the memory card thinking I had a corrupt file. It kept happening. So last Friday the store ordered me another replacement - I picked it up today and within 5 minutes it rebooted, got all started again and went back to the hourglass reboot again! I thought maybe it was something in the files they are xferring with each replaced phone so I did a total qipe - got rid of everything. And its still happening! I called sprint - got sent to their multiple replacement service line and was told they will be mailing me other phone. At this point no one with sprint can tell me why three 8530s have had a problem which gets gradually worse with each one. I am about ready to switch to att and go with the iphone after 5 years of being a BB user. I am beyond frustrated and hope someone here can help me out! Thank you!!

Hello, I had the very same problem in late July and August. I have the exact same phone and mine went from rebooting for apparent reason once or twice, two becoming totally useless and being stuck in a continuos rebooting mode. I mean non stop! Which in tern meant i could not back-up anything before taking it to Sprint. Bummer
Sprint did give me a nice new shinny one and within a week it doing the reboot thing again, but only occasionally. However, I have noticed that it only does it when I have the web browser on running in the background. Dont know what that means, but that is my experience. Sprint is still unable to tell me why.
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