Here's a rundown of the feedback in this thread so far:
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ChiTownJim Getting a new SIM Card ?
nerdstaz Getting a new SIM Card ?
OfTheDamned Replaced SIM & Phone Fixed!
AnotherHiggins Replaced SIM Card Fixed!
esmith818 Replaced SIM Card Fixed?
Mr. Orange 645 Replaced SIM Card Fixed?
ncwxnut Replaced SIM Card Not fixed
Mr. Link Holding it wrong Steve Jobs would have loved you ;)
jrbmed08 Reporting different issue -
(Man, it's not easy to post a table on this site without resorting to a picture. Shit, why didn't I just post a picture??)
Well let's apply a bit of logic to the problem:
To reiterate my personal experience - my mic cut out a couple of minutes into nearly
every call I made or received for 2 weeks on 2 different handsets. I used the same SIM card in both of those handsets.
After putting a new SIM card into my second handset (that had been failing on every call), the problem immediately disappeared.
Three other people here seem to have also successfully fixed the problem by swapping SIM cards.
So it's a reasonable assumption that the original SIM cards in our devices were at fault.
With that being our
only assumption, we are led to the conclusion that there are "bad" SIM cards out there. Maybe a bad batch was released or something.
The fact that swapping the SIM card didn't fix the problem for
one single person doesn't disprove that bad SIM cards are to blame. In fact it is to be expected if there are bad SIM cards out there.
I'm hoping that the SIM card swap makes a difference, but it sounds like people have had mixed results.
No, not really that mixed. See above
...my phone is unlocked but not rooted. Do I need to to relock before trying to get any in-store support, or do they just hand you a sim card?
Please read
my second reply where I discuss what I did that resulted in them just handing me a new SIM card that I installed myself. Of course your results may vary.
Neither I nor the person on the other end could hear each other.
That is not the same issue the rest of us are talking about. What is being discussed here is specifically that the the other person can't hear us, but we can still hear them. I never had a problem where I couldn't hear the other person.
When did you buy your phone? I bought mine on release day from HH Gregg. I was told by both HH Gregg and Verizon employees that 3rd party sellers had to handle replacements and everything for the first 2 weeks, but after than you can just go into a Verizon store.