I have a samsung impression and it crashes when i do the folling actions.

create a text message  but dont type anything

click on the screen so the phone shows the touchscreen keyboard (the qwerty one)

then touch t9

then type the following

Aw babe sorry, i j

it should freeze on j.

I have tried this on various impressions and all crashed and rebooted (no memory or setting were deleted, at least to my knowledge)

Plz other people try  it and see if it crashes.

I have made it crash by only typing certain parts of this then typing other random stuff.

No i have not yet as i havent had the time to do so.

I tried it on three phones that were not older than 2 weeks,  mine my mothers and my gf's

The otheres were of friends but idk what condition or age they were.

And i recommend u try this. it wont delete anything or change any setting either on the memory card or phone.

I wanted to see if maybe my area just got a bad shipment or if its all impressions.

Well i just tried it again its worked every time.... 7 times on my phone alone hehe.

I will take this to an att store by the end of this week and show them. I am also hoping others find this issue so we can get an update to fix this. Tehre also might be many other word combinations that will cause this.

Update:

This crash actually occurs anytime you use T9 and touch "i" then "space"

pretty lame! plz fix this samsung

im an at&t rep and i can definitely verify this problem is happening. right when i read about the bug on engadget i tried it out and its definitely happening, which sucks because they've been selling really well. Actually i had another instance when the impression crashed as well. I was working with 2 customers and i had to manually put in the voicemail gateway number and it crashed on me. i'm not sure what i did to trigger it but it crashed on me twice.  My solution to the texting crash though is to just not use t9 while in qwerty.  Honestly i don't really see the purpose of t9 when using qwerty anyways.  I never turn on t9 on the impressions or eternitys.

there is an article over on BGR about this today wow see link below. 

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/10/more-fail-less-epix-major-bug-plagues-another-att-samsung-handset/

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Smurfette27 wrote:
This is the second Samsung to have buggy issues. What is happeneing with them? I just don't understand how a manufacter can sell a defective device and  not refund the money. If all units have the same problem. They should be recalled and fixed. The impression is just as expensive as a smartphone.

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