Where was your Tour made? There has to be a reason why some phones are muffled while others aren't. You should be able to find where it was made on the inside of the phone - just open up the battery cover and remove the battery and it'll be listed on one of the stickers, like "Canada 1" or "Mexico 5" or whatever.
I have a Canada 1 phone, and I experience:
- Loose battery door
- Sticky trackball
- Average battery life (not like some who say they get 3 days out of theirs... but this might not have anything to do with the phone)
My Tour was made in Canada also, I just suffer from the loose back door but it isnt too bad. My battery life is good, my trackball is good, the OS is fast with no pauses, and my call quality is great. I love my new Tour.
Two Canada 1's and both behaved differently.
1. muffled calls, great trackball, no lag or lockups and snug battery door, phone got ridiculously hot.
2.good calls, mushy and sandpaper trackball, lags and lockups and loose battery door, nice and cool.
Both are Canada's finest with totally different results.
loose battery door.
sticky trackball.
good battery life (compared to the storm)
and 10-15 min reboots.. my gfs reboots in 2-3 minutes. hers in made in canada. and both baught at the same time.
When I send myself a voicemail with the handset, I have gurgly and mumbling even though I speak clearly. And when I use the BB headset, I sound much much clearer.
Muffled audio on phone
Loose battery door (moves what, maybe a .5mm?)
Initially had a good bit of lag, but that's almost completely gone, understand that may be the norm as my Curve did that when I got it.
Seems to take quite a while to restart (upwards of 4 or 5 minutes, not explicitly timed it though)
Signal is pretty good, works better at my house than my Curve did
I'm pretty happy with the phone, with the exception of the loose battery door & the muffled audio on the phone. I can live with the little bugs for now. I'm hoping Seidio comes out with a replacement back door like they did for my curve, that might fix the problem and make the phone stay where I put it and not slide around as much.
Just talked to advanced blackberry support about the battery cover and muffled voice, he issued a replacement, the Tour is in stock and it ships fast, but really hate to go through replacing a phone and setting everything up again.
Muffle sound absolutely terrible!!!
Hopefully new rom will fix....after all that's one major reason we own BBs..Excellent sound quality.
If no fix is made available my 9630 will be on Craigslist fast.
Mexico 5:
muffled sound quality (i really hope it's fixed in an OS or something)
5-10 minute boot up (after battery pull, etc)
pretty good battery door (it wasn't moving when i got it, but it started to budge the more and more i used it)
vibrate is decent. not as strong as my dumbphone, but it can still wake me up in the middle of the night if i get a text/BBM
is the bad sound a major issue?
i juust ordered mine, im gettining it in the mail, im hopeing not to have alot of problems, i dont like when phones freeze/lag
and i hope everything is fine
battery door has a little wiggle
i sound muffled when i use speakerphone
reboot takes 4~5 minutes
tiny screen ripple occasionally
trackball (at 90/90) works great
no problems with headphone jack