BlackBerry® Curve™

[Engadine]

Hi

Hopefully someone will be able to assist me.  My daughter's curve 9300 has been freezing off and on for a couple of months but now is causing major issues.  The only way to resolve this is taking the battery out for a while.

As the phone was less than a year old I took it back to the shop where it was purchased, it was sent away and took 2 weeks to be returned.  They initally said there was no fault with the phone but then said it wasn't actually looked at as the casing had been changed.  My daughter managed to break the original casing so it was replaced with exactly the same black casing.  They are refusing to do anything despite the phone not being fit for purpose i.e not working correctly.

I have spent the past week fighting with the retailer but to no avail, they just don't have any customer service and are not interested.

Can anyone advise how I contact Blackberry in the UK please.

Many thanks

[HSingh2012]

Hello,
You can reload the Operating System on your daughter's curve, is it running on OS 5 or 6?, you could increase the speed by downgrading to 5 but that would make you lost BlackBerry Messenger 7 that has BBM Voice.

[sdgardne · Accepted solution]

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Engadine wrote:

I have spent the past week fighting with the retailer but to no avail, they just don't have any customer service and are not interested.

Can anyone advise how I contact Blackberry in the UK please.

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Hi and Welcome to the Community!

To answer your specific question...RIM provides zero front line support to end users, including warranty...all support starts with the carriers, authorized resellers, and authorized service centers, all who can escalate cases into RIM at no charge to the end user. Contractually, you have no free path by which to bypass the shop you are working with and attempt any formal escalation to RIM...as your warranty service provider, they have responsibility to service your warranty under it's contractual terms. I suspect that, when you read your actual contract, you will discover that they are indeed correct in their assessment.

There is something called incident support, but it costs to just ask the initial question, since you are bypassing the contract you signed upon purchase. If you wish to investigate that, you can review it here:

• http://us.blackberry.com/support/programs/technical/incident.html

There also might be some good reading here:

• http://us.blackberry.com/legal/handheld-limited-warranty.html

But, all in all, from your description, I might not hold out much hope...if you have indeed voided the terms of your warranty, then that's pretty much the end of it.

Good luck!

[Engadine]

Thanks Sdgardne for taking the time to respond

[Engadine]

Thanks Hsingh may give your suggestions a go