Now upgraded via Kies (I take it all back) to Gingerbread .XXJW4 - we'll see how it copes now.

Have you downloaded a battery monitor? I found GSam battery monitor a pretty good one with a decent log of what's using the battery. it's far better than the stock one anyway.

Mine does it every now and again. A full reboot fixes the problem, so my guess is it's the charger circuit or software going wonky.

Certainly seems to be stable on the new OS, its currently showing 17 hours remaining on the battery which was last charge at 8pm last night, have just switched on Wi-Fi which gave a couple of errors from bits of software that I'd not enabled comms to but so far so good, no lockups or freezes at the moment, like most people all I want from a smartphone is to ALWAYS be ready to accept a call, text or email - the internet and apps stuff is just icing on the cake and not absolutely necessary but when it buggers up the main functions then its ready to be drop-kicked down the garden.

This is the tech thread, you can't use words like that.

I work on a technical helpline supporting field engineers, you're right, you can't use non-specific words like that, "its fooked mate" is the normal catch-all terminology that we use.

Acceptable.

Yup, and we use completely fooked if we don't have the part in boot stock.

Our flow chart shows that the next step for us is "I'll get someone from sales to call you"

By the way, my phone is behaving perfectly today.



Apart from the fact that I can't get any of the Google services on it including Market.



Which is a bit of a bummer.





LATE EDIT : hold the front page, phony Google account gets me in



Now : SD card not recognised

And as all good field service engineers will tell you that's where the feckin problems start.

it takes an engineer 3 weeks to complete a tender, and a halfwhit from sales to miss the OJEU deadline by 3 minutes!