Windows Phone 8 reboots irk some users - gordonhatelve

Smartphones ready-made by Nokia and HTC and running Windows Call 8 have been spontaneously rebooting and freezing for some users, according to complaints in several online forums.

Some users of the HTC 8X French telephone have reportable anyplace from peerless to octet random reboots a day after buying their phones. The misbehavior appears to have disappeared for some users after they uninstalled an app on their phones for Facebook.

"Had no reboots today," wrote one member of the Windows Phone Central assembly. "Then open the FB app and half an hour later got a boot."

At last count, 165 comments had been posted to the forum astir the rebooting problem.

A forum member in Prague wrote that he experienced ii random reboots after owning his HTC handset for only three days. "Quite annoying," he noted.

HTC was non immediately available for comment, but one of the assembly members in contact with the company's support team wrote that he believed the team considered an urgent fix was systematic.

Leastwise one forum member rumored that the rebooting problem wasn't limited to phones running Windows Phone 8. "I'm still along a WP7 handset and had a brutal issue of reboots over the weekend," He wrote.

Similar complaints appeared on Microsoft's Windows Phone profession forumwhere up to now, there are 65 comments about the job.

"It was fine for the first week, just is now rebooting some times a day," a forum member wrote of his HTC handset. "Every time so far (that I've noticed) has been when it's sitting on my desk doing nothing."

Another phallus noted the problem occurring after owning his HTC phone for just a few years. Along one occasion, the phone rebooted threefold in 20 minutes. "This is sloppy QA and I really hope things are fixed or it is releas back," he wrote. "I really treasured to believe in Windows Phone this time but if this ISN't fixed fast and then I'll Be back to Mechanical man."

Although rebooting problems get also been reported for the Nokia 920 Windows Phone 8 handset, the whole seems to throw a bigger problem with random freeze. Presently on one Nokia support forum, on that point are 76 postings about the problem.

Some forum members have noted their phones freezing when using Bluetooth devices. One member attributed the problem to quality control.

"I got my 920 on launching day from ATT," the member explained. "Within 10 minutes of leaving the store the telephone locked up completely. Had to do a hard readjust."

"The whole dark and part of the next day I had aught but problems with freezes and lockup up, apps not loading and other problems," he continued. "Brought it back to ATT and exchanged."

"The forward telephone set also started freezing up and the start button wouldn't work fractional the time," he lamented. "Took the second phone back also and exchanged for my third gear, which fortunately I seaport't had a single issue with yet."

Neither Nokia nor Microsoft were immediately available for gloss for this report.