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Replaced today at the cell phone kiosk in my local Costco. The manager has been with them for 8 years and has never seen anything like that. They just exchanged it for a new one. Took a little while to arrange but pretty pain-free.

So got my new Verizon S7 on Saturday. It made it less than 24 hours. Tried rebooting the phone (about 4 times now), and nothing changed. Can't even log in as I am unable to guess where the letters are to log in. Yes, the touchscreen is working in the black area. What's interesting to me is...

Since my phone was updated to Kitkat 4.4.2 some weird behavior has been going on. Some apps were broken, even the Google Mail and Play store apps would not work. I also noticed that everything was a hair slower than before, press the home button when the screen was off and it took noticeably...

So on my S4 mini I discovered that when you go to the settings screen with all the connection settings (Hands-free mode, sound, airplane mode, NFC etc) I noticed a setting for Mobile Data. I turned if off. Great! 2 hours later, it switched itself back on. Presumably because something (email...

Today while talking to my dad the phone dropped the call. I thought at first it was just a reception issue, but when I looked at the display it was telling me it was missing the sim card. So of course I could not place a call back either. I rebooted the phone, it works fine. This is the 2nd...

I have kind of iffy coverage at my home so I was able to talk VZ into giving me one of the Samsung SCS-2U01 network extenders. When I got it Wednesday night and fired up (all blue indicator lights) the cell signal on my wife's HTC Incredible jumped to 5 bars. The Samsung Sway I used to use also...

Hi all, Just purchased a Verizon S4 Mini, my first smartphone, enjoying it but have a couple questions. I see that there are 400+ news stories about Android 4.3 from Nov-Dec announcing it will be released to the S4 Mini and only forum chatter about it screwing peoples phones and that Verizon...