{"id":1925,"date":"2012-03-25T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2012-04-08T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T20:51:23","slug":"spare-one-phone-dead-on-arrival-two-red-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/spare-one-phone-dead-on-arrival-two-red-leds\/","title":{"rendered":"Spare One Phone – Dead on Arrival – Two Red LEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE<\/strong>: I called the company twice (once on Monday and again on Tuesday) and on Tuesday after asking a few questions they shipped me a new phone (arrived on Saturday and worked correctly!) and a label to ship back the defective unit. (I also emailed them on Sunday, and received an email reply 8 days later, after already receiving the replacement phone…so I would recommend persistent phone calls (it took a few tries to get to a human instead of voice-mail) over email.<\/p>\n

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\nI purchased a SpareOne phone, which is a very simple GSM handset that is powered by a single AA battery. It has even less functionality than the Motorola MotoFone F3<\/a>, as it has no display other than two indicator LEDs, so you can’t send or receive SMS messages. It comes with an Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery which has a 15 year shelf life (if you keep the battery disconnected from the phone with the provided plastic pull strip) and offers “up to” 10 hours of talk time on a single battery. My invoice number was 393, so it looks like I was within the first few hundred orders.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when I received the phone and pulled the battery guard out, instead of turning on it just lit up both LED’s solid red (which I assume is some type of error code, although it is not mentioned in the small instruction sheet that came with the phone. I have tried a new battery, veracious press combinations of the ON button, and the keylock button, etc, but have gotten none of the feedback beeps demonstrated in the “how to” videos.<\/p>\n

I will be calling their support line on Monday to see if they have any advice for how to re-set it, or return it for a replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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