After 10 years N97 mini made me decide to leave No...

I have it since less than a year. After 10 years of Nokia devices, this one is the worst cell I have seen. I cannot enumerate all the problems I had, also after having it completely reset by support center.
The main problems are:
-very poor sensibility. In my house several other cells catch 100% signal, and it is frequently without signal and or interrupting calls.
-very unstable: memory full and system error every day, I cannot receive a SMS or do a symply activity without having those errors
-software update never worked. Also after having upgraded firmware at last release, valling it from device always say "all is updated"
-I never installed anything but some simply application from Ovi Store, but a lot of them are no more working and disappear frequently. Ovi store does not allow to reinstall it until I do a hard reset. It's annoying and very tiring.
-Backup on memory cards never worked, so I cannot save my data (Memory full message) between resets. Ovi Suite stopped to work after an update and never could the USB connection working again.
and ... and ....
I wanted a pro device for my work, not having to continously do manutention, but since 10 months I had to do at least 6 hard resets, each time also to reinstall applications.
This is not the way you can stay on pro market. Goodbye, Nokia.

if you create as much possible free memory on your C drive by deleting everything possible from it (apps etc) and ensure you save all messages to E mass memory , you may see an improvement , also using Ramblow to maximize RAM helps . There are lots of threads here on optimizing the N97 and mini here , and some good tutorials on the AAS web site . The N97 is considered fairly reliable compared to the N97 and with a little tweeking is very useable . If you've already tried all this , accept my apology , if not give it a try , you've nothing to lose except a bit of time , if I can get an N97 to run ok , the mini should be a doddle !
Good Luck
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If you want a reply from Nokia then you have to ask Nokia, not post a question on a forum populated by other users of Nokia products like yourself.
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