I hear there is minority that still have a working phone after a year. You must truly be blessed!
But I'm with the majority who have a brick in 2-6 months.
After 5 months, mine froze. Did a reboot, and got a dozen crash messages. Rebooted again and it froze at VM splash screen.
Tried leaving it on overnight to see if it would eventually make it to the lock screen, but no luck. Removed the battery, no luck.
Made it into the recovery screen 3 times. First 2 times tried reboot and wipe cache, no luck.
Third time I tried a factory reset, and that bricked it. It now does a continuous reboot at the Event startup screen.
I can no longer reach the recovery screen, and have no access to it when I plug it into my computer.
So I figure I'll take advantage of the 1 year warranty, only to get a runaround. Kyocera flat out said NO!, and said I must contact VM according to their contract. Virgin Mobile verified it was dead, and said I must deposit $35 into my account as payment, and when authorized I would have to send it back at my expense.
What a ripoff! A 100 year warranty would be just as useful if I have to pay more than the phone costs to get it repaired under warranty!
Never again at any price Kyocera and Virgin Mobile. You sell worthless phones, knowing full well you can make a profit even off of warranty repair. CROOKS
Update: My brother had actually bought 2 phones at target and sold me one. His phone also died EXACTLY like mine, within 2 weeks of each other. That's a 100% failure rate within 5 months for his purchase... It's almost like these things are programmed to die on cue!