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Originally Posted by opichika
First week phone buzzed along...then I installed 2 apps. Handcent and dolphin. Love them both. But started to notice airplane mode locked on randomly and freezing during calls. My Spidey sense was screaming it was one of the apps. So after 2 weeks uninstalled handcent. No more issues. Phone buzzes like new.
Currently using smspopup to replace handcent, only bummer is can't figure out how to message to a group. Oh well. Gonna give chomp a try. This phone is really great...doesn't need tons of apps...just a little practice.
Hope this helps somebody....if it is indeed the culprit, seems like everyone has this app in this thread.
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I have had a similar experience, but I do not use Handcent. In my case the problem seems to be connected to my use of a podcast catcher.
I was noticing that my phone would go into so-called airplane mode fairly often -- at least every other day. And it would happen most frequently overnight. Eventually it occurred to me that the only thing going on at night, at least on a regular basis, was that my podcast application was downloading large audio files. In order to save battery, the podcatcher was set to download only when on AC power -- and the effect of this, most days, was that most downloads would occur overnight, while my phone was plugged in to recharge. Just about every other day, I would wake up to find my phone had gone into airplane mode overnight. When I described this problem to Sprint support, they suggested deleting the podcatcher and I decided to give that a try. Over the next two weeks, I experienced airplane mode only once. Last Friday evening, I reinstalled the podcatcher program. Over the next three days, airplane mode reoccurred three times -- two of those times being overnight.
I really do not think the problem is with the podcatcher itself, which is why I am reluctant to name the program here. Instead, I think the problem is tied to large data transmissions such as podcast downloads. Somehow they are screwing up the CDMA radio and causing it to lock up.
Some have suggested that wifi may be a part of the problem. I can't rule that out, but the lockups for me have occurred both with wifi on and with wifi off.
I plan to delete the podcatcher program today. Just for the hell of it, I intend to install an alternative podcatcher program (probably Google Listen) just for purposes of comparison.