Also, my Rumor is always trying to connect to the internet. Numerous times I have manually went to the settings and turned the data off, but it still connects. I have been in mid-text and it just starts connecting to whatever. I have seen almost $100 worth of casual data charges, yet I never use any type of data features on my phone. I call, text, and listen to some, horrible quality, music.

Now the screen on my wife’s phone keeps blacking out. She has yet to experience any random shut down but she is constanly texting and dialing blind. I’m curious if she is experiencing this because she uses the QWERTY keyboard all the time. I never use the keyboard; fingers aren’t small enough, heh. So my phone sees less screen flipping.

That’s the extent of our problems and compared to a lot of the above complaints we aren’t doing bad . . . yet. No shutting off mid call or text and our chargers and batteries are on par.

Anyways, I really didn’t want to dish out $100 for both of us to claim our phones under Asurion but it looked like it was only gonna get worse so right before I claimed I decided to research other complaints and stumbled upon a long list of dissatisfied customers.

Hearing about how everyone is recieving refurbished Rumors, or new ones that eventually act up again, I decided to hold of on sending Asurion my $100 just to go full circle. It also looks like everyone is getting nowhere with calling LG or Sprint and I really don’t want to spend hours on my phone trying to get past a road block (that’s if my phone stays on that long).

I’m a 3 year Sprint customer who has never had a late payment or issue with Sprint. I get a 23% discount on my bill through my employer so that is keeping me from wanting to ditch my provider, plus I honestly haven’t had any issues with their service and my phone never loses reception . . . when its on.

I’ve come to the conclusion that LG made a crappy phone and is too proud or ashamed to admit it, and neither LG or Sprint can afford to address the mass amount of people that jumped into the cheap and appealing phone. This will be our first and last LG. When we get our $8,000 tax credit, we will just dish out the money to upgrade to a well recieved phone. If our phones totally crap out by then, we will just see if Sprint will reactivated our old Sanyo Katanas, which were still rocking after 2 years of abuse.

We’ll see . . .