N80 menu crashing phone freezing advice needed

Hi guys i'm new on here, i've had my N80 12days and now its started to crash and freeze its completely useless to me at the moment as it wont go into any menu. Most calls go straight through to answer phone despite full signal and the battery life is **bleep** - but i've got some tips to improve that.
I rang orange who said its the softwear and the only way to fix it is to take battery out and replace it, they then said there may be softwear upgrade available.
I'm not very technical and i've not been able to find anything about this so far.
My firmwear vision is V.3.0617.06 03/05/2006

I agree here, I have has some experience with this and have taken quite a few big companes to court and won (i did this with my sendo X and pixmania) because they just try to fob you off, as a buyer you have rights, and as explained above you have the right to purchase a product and that product should work in the way intended for a reasonable amount of time, with many things reasonable actually goes beyond 12 months, but 12 months is just a nice round number.
When you speak to them just mention the office of fair trading, trading standards and offcom and watch how their attitude changes, if it does not threaten them that you are giving them 7 days notice to rectify your problems or you will take them to small claims court and claim for reimbursment and all costs involved), you can do this online, its very easy and costs about £50 (which you can claim for in the summons).
As soon as they get the summons (which is usually next day or within 24 hours) they will be more than happy to do whatever is needed to fix your problem because the last thing any company wants is a CCJ, and dont forget to tell them to send you a check for the cost of the claim, if they refuse tell them you will continue with the claim untill they fix your phone AND reimburse you with your costs.
DONT STOP THE CLAIM UNTILL YOU ARE SATISFIED.
Its very easy to do, go here
https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/csmco2/index.jsp
Trust me if you get no joy through normal measures, then you have to take drastic action, they wouldnt think twice about taking you to court.
Let us know how you get on ..

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