Frustrated newbie

 Hey carguy, welcome to the forums.

 That is a nice step up indeed..

 Now what we know, there is a boatload of active sync issues, yes.(vista,xp seem to manage better then Seven, somewhat)

 The fail to restart after a reset i have seen while plugged in, though i have not heard of anyone having random reboots, or to be common at all.
 So i wonder, does it do this when plugged in only or any time?

 Maybe loose connection at plug or battery not seated well?

that's just not right.

WR

Speaking of reboots and locks up.. yeah, I've gotten them too..

> Yeah the activesync issues are known, but i have XP and have never had an issue with it, and its connected a LOT..

I can get it connect to xp, with occasional disconnects, but I don't use outlook so not sure how well/poorly outlook sync works.
I also got it to connect to vista but I don't use that pc much so not sure what problems vista has.
I can't get it to sync with win7 (RC), can't even detect the phone

>As to the random rebooting i havnt heard that yet,

I think I've had that once or twice for the past month since I had my phone, but that doesn't bug me too much considering my old phone (non-smartphone) also reboots once in a while

> mine randomly locks up.. sometimes i get a call and it gets stuck playing the ringtone for 3 minutes while the screen is non responsive

Mine didn't get stuck playing the ringtone for 3 minutes, but it still got stuck playing for 15 seconds, which was enough to make me feel like an idiot hitting the "accept call" repeatedly but the phone just kept playing the ringtone.

WR, its not the ringer i dont think, im using a very small mp3 from myxer.com.. But it seems like, ill get a call and while its ringing the g-sensors changes orientaions(or trys) and the phone bugs out and locks up.. Im not SURE thats what it is but that seems like what happens.

> Davi, you still have your Expo/IQ, i thought i read you got rid of it, or did I get my wires crossed with Davi's, no matter, you both have a simaliar problem that is not common to the small community here.

probably another davi, I still love my eXpo and trying every hack/tweak to make it work better :-)

I have a 700k ringtone in the "My Ringtones" phones on the SD card, I'll try different ringtones to see if that makes a difference.

I'm using Windows 7, so hopefully someone will come up with an updated device driver to solve the sync problem.
The shutdown/reboot issue did occur while I was plugged in to the charger. 

The shutting off thing must be a LG thing. I ordered an Expo to replace my Shine, my shine shuts off about 10 times a day, I hope I don't have the same problem with the Expo.