Anyone else have S5 problems?

[IndyMLVC]

I've had it since the day it came out and upgraded from the S3.

1) The day after I received my phone, I stopped receiving text messages completely. I worked with the T-mobile rep to rectify it. I had to do a hard reset on the phone. Although I never received my missed texts, it seemed to work after that. I was told that the phones were shipped with faulty software that Samsung was aware of. Texts have worked fine since them.

2) The speakerphone is a half-duplex instead of full duplex. That means that when the other person was talking or making noise on their end, they could never hear me. I was never sure if they were hearing what i was saying or if it was actually going through. For example, if I was talking to someone on speakerphone who was in their car and had a lot of noise on their end, they would never hear me. As someone who uses speakerphone a lot, this is a major problem. My Samsung S3 was full duplex. I never had this problem.

3) My email never properly synced with my server. If i looked at emails on my computer, they would still show as unread on my phone even AFTER I hit the sync button. I would delete emails on my phone and after I synced, they would re-appear.

4) I would choose a specific ringtone for different friends and it would only work SOMETIMES. One time I might get the ringtone that I specified and another time I might get my generic ringtone. No rhyme or reason.

5) Because I live in NYC, some subway stations have cell service and others do not. If I sent a text when I didn't have service, it SHOULD simply send when I got above ground or to a station that had service. It wouldn't. The text would just sit there and never send. I would have to copy/paste it to a NEW text and send again.

6) I used the map service to find a friend who was several blocks away. I had an address and when I put it into the phone, it sent me in the complete wrong direction. In fact, the map started spinning as if it had no idea how to locate where I was or where I was going.

7) There was a serious lag because of Touchwiz. It's almost as if the phone is thinking about what it needs to do.


T-mobile is shipping a new phone to me but I'm not sure if it will fix ANY of these problems. If it doesn't, I'm going to have to choose a new one. Samsung REALLY rushed this one out.