Hi everybody.
I recently purchased a Certified Pre-Owned Kyocera Hydro Icon from Freedompop.com a few weeks ago. I did a lot of research about it before I bought it, and the first thing I saw was "Kyocera Hydro Icon Certified Pre Owned. Price: 39.99" I clicked on the Pre-Owned link and it said this. "Our Certified Pre-Owned phones are Guaranteed to be in Like New condition because all Freedompop Certified Pre owned phones are Cleaned, Repaired, Sanitized and have been fully wiped, even before they are shipped. Right after I read "Have been fully wiped" I thought "Since this phone is an android phone, they probably deleted Gapps and Google play services while they wiped them. I know that a lot of the google apps and tons of apps on the Google play store (that I'll definitely be using) require google play services to run." I thought about not buying the phone, but it was a really good deal, so I bought it. One week later, I received the phone in the mail and I set it up and updated it. I added my google account and tried to sign in with it in an app, and it said "Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped." And it did that EVERY SINGLE TIME I tried to sign into an app using my google account, it said "Unfortunately, Google Play Services has stopped." I use my google account more than every day, so I needed to get this fixed as soon as possible, thus Freedompop should really stop wiping their phones THAT much!:(