Has ANYONE been able to successfully build and operate their phone?

[badgeguy]

I have had, and finished building, my phone for nearly 6 months. In that time, I have yet to hear of someone solving their issues and then successfully using their phone. I have, like many others in this forum, been able to build the phone, only to have no ability for the dial to be recognized, to be able to flash the phone's software, to get it to answer an incoming call, nor to have anything other than have it charge, show "starting" when powered on/"goodbye" when powered off, and to have it show "dialing" momentarily if I hold down on the handset icon button.

Any response from:
a) anyone who has successfully built and used their phone, just acknowledging that it does work,
b) and/or someone on the Sky's Edge team acknowledging that they know of (an) issue(s), or there is some path to resolving some of these problems,
would be greatly appreciated.

I would truly love to believe that this is something that can be actualized for what Justine had envisioned and worked so hard on.

Please give me hope.

Thank you.

[DanS]

I would love to help with debugging issues, but I haven't received a kit yet.
I'm concerned that perhaps something happened with how long there has been radio silence here and on the blog.