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[Sir Tigger KC]

In June 2013 I upgraded my old phone to (at the time) a spangly new Sony Xperia T.  I was my first proper smart phone and I was very pleased with it.  However when it was about 20 months old it kept shutting down and wouldn't restart, unless I did the power button/volume button reset. 

I took it back to Three as the supplier, but they didn't want to know and told me to contact Sony.    Sony sent me a prepaid envelope and I sent it back to them and they sent out a brand new phone within a couple of days! 

So this phone is now about 20 months old and the same thing is happening.  It dies from time to time and now it won't charge up unless its switched off!   

I'm wondering if there's a little timebomb in the software, so it starts to play up and people then upgrade.....      Cynical? Moi? 

[korum]

No timebomb just the usual "built to a price point" like everything else nowadays, no doubt there will be a capacitor or something on the board that fails after so long as the better version would of been .00001p more expensive to fit 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Probably a life expired battery.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Probably a life expired battery.

Yes I think you're right Mark.  I managed with a bit of fiddling to get it to charge to 67% this afternoon, but over the course of the evening it's discharged to 14%!    That's about 5 or 6 hours on standby! 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Well I'll never have Sony phone again.  Less than 2 years old and it's as dead as a dodo! 

I'm away at the moment, so will have to buy another phone as the chances of getting this one sorted here are less than zero and I need to be contactable. 

Sony will be getting a stiff letter of complaint when I get home!! 

[Sir Tigger KC]

So I went out this afternoon and bought an Asus Zenfone 3 Max.  It seems OK so far, it switches on, I get a signal and I can connect to the internet with WiFi. 

What can possibly go wrong?   

[Doctor Gollum]

The battery will go flat and you'll become rediscombobulated

[Ever Ready]

So I went out this afternoon and bought an Asus Zenfone 3 Max.  It seems OK so far, it switches on, I get a signal and I can connect to the internet with WiFi. 

What can possibly go wrong?   

The Sony will spring back into life and you will torn between keeping your new Asus or giving the old Sony another chance

[Rods2]

One of the phone battery's spontaneously combusts and burns the room out.

Even worse a certain admin's phone joins in, in sympathy.