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Hateful phone!

Samsung Galaxy S2. What a pile of garbage. How can I get rid of this thing?
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  • Jon_01
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    Ebay, Gumtree, local small add's... bin?
  • grumbler
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    Send it to me. I'll pay for P&P.
  • it's a contract phone from Orange and it arrived this morning. I'm hoping I can send it back and get a different phone?
  • Why don't you like it? You don't seem to have given it a long time!
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  • grumbler
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    edited 19 September 2012 at 8:40AM
    it's a contract phone from Orange and it arrived this morning. I'm hoping I can send it back and get a different phone?
    And then send a different phone back again? And again - until you are happy at last? If you don't know what you want, why just not go to a shop first and play with the phones before ordering it online? And if you were not sure about the phone, why have you not checked your rights and Orange's delivery and returns policy before ordering? How old are you?
  • For some reason it won't pick up hardly any Orange signal in my home (Orange phones usually work well here). When somebody called me on it the buttons for Answer or Decline had no effect at all and did not work and the phone just rang and rang. It won't connect to the Samsung Apps store. Etc etc. It just seems so oddly inferior to the iPhones
  • Fifer
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    It just seems so oddly inferior to the iPhones

    :think:


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  • Jon_01
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    it's a contract phone from Orange and it arrived this morning. I'm hoping I can send it back and get a different phone?


    They won't just change the phone. You'd have to cancel the contract you have with it and start a new one with a new phone. That how the system works.

    But as grumbler suggests, you might want to go and try a few first as they won't keep taking them back forever...
  • Jon_01 wrote: »
    They won't just change the phone. You'd have to cancel the contract you have with it and start a new one with a new phone. That how the system works.

    But as grumbler suggests, you might want to go and try a few first as they won't keep taking them back forever...

    when I tried this phone in the store I liked it. But now that it has arrived it seems to be a piece of !!!!. It simply won't connect to anything so I cannot load any apps, access the internet or do anything much else. What is the point of a smartphone that can do nothing more than accept or make phone calls and send and receive texts?
  • phil001
    phil001 Posts: 176 Forumite
    Its obviously either set up incorrectly, or faulty.
    Either way Orange will be able to help you with a quick phone call.
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