[asteele]

It's so strange - and damn annoying!

Mine went very low on the battery so it was in the red and automatically turned the radio off, but the phone still worked for non-radio use anyway.

I then had it on the mains charger, and I checked it a little while later and it was up to around 30%, the radio had been turned back on automatically - and I saw that it had caught up on some new email messages.

I assumed it was all fine, but the next morning it was very much dead.

Mine was sent for repair 3 weeks ago, no news at all.

I bought a 2nd 9900, which is running the very latest OS - and works great, battery is down to around 50% at the end of the day, which is superb - and my connectibity gremlins appear to have been addressed too, but I am not sure how much of that is OS related or down to some phone network improvements in my area.

I am still thankful each morning when I confirm that No. 2 9900 is still working fine - it would be nice to hear something from RIM about this problem, surely the carriers are fed up with the massive number of returns that they are having to handle!