[YourMobileGuru]

Why would you never do a *228 on a 4G phone?

Because they use a different activation system than the older CDMA devices even though they are backward compatible to CDMA. As the post ahead of me said the phone is programmed via the SIM card like GSM and iDEN (Nextel) phones are.

[Jude526]

Like I had mentioned earlier it could be the signal. I would try it on 3G and see if keeping it on CDMA works better than having the device choose which signal to use. Some areas of the network may not be perfect and the phone is trying to find the best signal to use. I don't have 4G in my home area and keeping it at CDMA does make it work better for me.

[kca2000]

Like I had mentioned earlier it could be the signal. I would try it on 3G and see if keeping it on CDMA works better than having the device choose which signal to use. Some areas of the network may not be perfect and the phone is trying to find the best signal to use. I don't have 4G in my home area and keeping it at CDMA does make it work better for me.

I do have 4g in my home and everywhere around for the most part.
Im sorry, but i have no interest in having an LTE device just to turn the LTE off all the time. Yesterday i had the signal drop from a 3 bar LTE connection to a triangle immediately in a park while listening to pandora while my buddies charge doing the same thing kept chugging along. Plus i dont see the signal having anything to do with the random reboots, launcher crashes, and black screens after unlock on boot up. Thanks for the idea.

[Podz]

Thought i would share some of major issues with the Bionic and I figured this couldn't be normal to have the device with this many issues happen but here is the list:

Battery Life with heavy use is like 2 hours if that....

The Device tends to get hot when using/looking for LTE in none 4G areas.

Market, Browser and other apps then to close with NO force..

Tends to tell me there is no LTE/3G service in area with 3 bars of 3G signal in the none 4G area and will cycle from triangle to 4g and back..

Poor building of LCD screen when pressing on screen and back cover you can break the LCD from inside out when there is no support in back other then sharp chips with EMI shielding plates..

Screen Coating failed on the device i cant for the life understand why they put coating on the glass if it so poor that it flacks off the gorilla glass in 2 days of use "Rubbing your fingers all over the glass plate and check for black spots is the way u can check for this issue"..

When holding the Device it will make noises like its about to fall apart due to the poor clipped in plastic and cheap cover that they used like HTC puts in there phones ....

Browser is shuttering like crazy feels like its running at 4-10 fps when scrolling and so do market and other apps feels like its not a dual-core device... maybe issue with OMAP...

Market when downloading app will tell me it has no connection with 4 Bars of 3G and will get stuck in loading screen and sit there...

The Mobile Hotspot works good when u can turn it on other wise i get "Please Order Hotspot from Verizon Error"

Mobile Hotspot will tell me Unknown Device when trying to connect the device to the Bionic... only fix is rebooting the Bionic to fix it.....

Screen on the bottom were the keys are is bleeding light also.....

The Handset when plugged will have an added buzzing noise in the background..

LCD Screen Brightness on loading logo will have this flickering going on if u look at the device from top down....

When pulling the battery out of device is a real pain and can damage the sim/sdcard due to the battery being so flush with the plastic and hard to pull out if u need to reset it..

From the looks of it this is definitely defective after calling Verizon many complaints about the issues have been reported will be taking it back to store sometime today......

[tank4gunner]

I am haveing the same problem with the data connection. I have my bionic sitting here next to my wifes Droid X and the x has full signal and 3g where the bionic has no data connection at all. I called Verizon this morning but their system is down so they said they cant help me. I may just take the thing back this afternoon.

I finally got an answer from VZW and I feel like an *****. I just needed to turn on DATA roaming. It can be found at Settings>Battery & data manager>Data delivery. Then just check the box next to data roaming and say ok when it asks you if you are sure.

[corymcnutt]

@Podz - I'm sorry, but you couldn't possibly have a Moto Bionic...your one post gives you away; take your hatred somewhere else...PLEASE!

[Droid800]

@Podz - I'm sorry, but you couldn't possibly have a Moto Bionic...your one post gives you away; take your hatred somewhere else...PLEASE!

As I posted earlier, the screen temp is oddly off.

Screen temperature

[finfan365]

I've been looking around forums for the past few days to see if anyone else was having these problems. I have to say, mine aren't nearly as bad as the OP's. I realize, I tend to be a bit picky, so I wasn't sure if it was my own OCD that was the issue or the phone. I've been having the data loss issues with mine, but no random reboots, or locked screens.

Most of my trouble has been with moving back into a 4g area from a 3g. I'll often have to go in and out of airplane mode to get it to find 4g, or even data, again. Even then the signal strength is nowhere near as strong as my wife's Charge. She's always a couple of bars stronger than my Bionic.

I think I'll take mine in for exchange today, and see if a different phone resolves the issue, but if not, I plan on returning and waiting for the Revolution2, if it comes Bingless, or the HTC Vigor.

[bbaker5678]

I picked up my Bionic first thing Thursday morning from my local store in NC. Shortly after that my daughter and I took off for a weekend trip to IL. The phone is fantastic and I've had none of the rebooting issues that I've seen mentioned. Battery life is decent - although I did buy the spare battery & now think that I was a genius for doing that.

I have only had the following two problems:

1) Apps tend to uninstall themselves - the app is on the home-screen, but when I try to launch it shows that it is not installed. Checking the app list shows that the app is not on my phone and I have to go to market to re-install.

2) Data Connectivity Issues - as a few others noted I've had the problem with switching from 4G to 3G and losing signal in the process. After a few minutes I get it back. Also, when in a roaming area I have no data. All settings are correct and data roaming is turned on. I saw this over the course of my trip and also noticed that when roaming I would have people tell me that they tried to call or text but when I checked my phone there were no missed calls/texts.

I live in a 4G market and the phone is great at home. Unfortunately, I work an hour north and I spend my day roaming. Switched to Wi-Fi while I'm in the office.

Guess I'll be making a trip past the VZW store by the house tonight.

[gdad]

The only issue for me is not being able to keep apps installed on the SD card. Seems to randomly uninstall apps. Not necessarily the same apps each time. I wonder if the SD card is defective? 4G is not available in my area yet, so I hope that will not be a problem as others have described when it's turned on in a couple of months.

[dmcman73]

I picked up my Bionic first thing Thursday morning from my local store in NC. Shortly after that my daughter and I took off for a weekend trip to IL. The phone is fantastic and I've had none of the rebooting issues that I've seen mentioned. Battery life is decent - although I did buy the spare battery & now think that I was a genius for doing that.

I have only had the following two problems:

1) Apps tend to uninstall themselves - the app is on the home-screen, but when I try to launch it shows that it is not installed. Checking the app list shows that the app is not on my phone and I have to go to market to re-install.

2) Data Connectivity Issues - as a few others noted I've had the problem with switching from 4G to 3G and losing signal in the process. After a few minutes I get it back. Also, when in a roaming area I have no data. All settings are correct and data roaming is turned on. I saw this over the course of my trip and also noticed that when roaming I would have people tell me that they tried to call or text but when I checked my phone there were no missed calls/texts.

I live in a 4G market and the phone is great at home. Unfortunately, I work an hour north and I spend my day roaming. Switched to Wi-Fi while I'm in the office.

Guess I'll be making a trip past the VZW store by the house tonight.

The apps are not unistalling themselves, the same thing happened on my Thunderbolt when I had it. For some reason some of the Apps, when updates get applied to your phone it breaks the shortcut on the desktop of the phone. If you are not manually updating the app and this is happening then chances are the "Auto Update" feature for that app in the market place is checked off and the phone is automatically updating it.

To check to see if an App is auto updating: Go into your market, press the menu button (left of the home button) and select "My Apps" from the pop up menu. In the list of apps that are installed on your phone, tap on the application name and see if the checkbox labeled "Allow automatic updating" is checked, it will be right above the "Rate & Review".

EDIT: I had a problem this morning where Data dropped out all together. Also, my phone never rang when someone called me and a voicemail notification just popped up. I rebooted the phone and it's working fine now, guess I'll have to keep an eye on it.

[Stef272]

I am not too happy right now, I don't know if I haven't set something up correctly. But I did find out I do not live in a 4G area, but I've read over the blogs and tried the CMDA only. Good 3G coverage, but I had a Droid X (loved the phone), but had a wild hair to upgrade to the bionic, well trying to download from the market I can't without WiFi, which I didn't have that problem with my Droid X ..?? WHY!? I have WiFi access where I am, but I may not while out and about..going to be sick if I'm stuck with this problem...I had a feeling to stay with my X..Anyone change my mood?

[flashpiti]

I am not too happy right now, I don't know if I haven't set something up correctly. But I did find out I do not live in a 4G area, but I've read over the blogs and tried the CMDA only. Good 3G coverage, but I had a Droid X (loved the phone), but had a wild hair to upgrade to the bionic, well trying to download from the market I can't without WiFi, which I didn't have that problem with my Droid X ..?? WHY!? I have WiFi access where I am, but I may not while out and about..going to be sick if I'm stuck with this problem...I had a feeling to stay with my X..Anyone change my mood?

Why not just wait it out with your X for the next two months and then decide if the Bionic is still for you even with the Prime and Vigor being released especially since you love your X?

[dirkpittt]

No issues whatsoever. I went to the VZW kiost at BJ's today to get the car mount, and they told me the exetended battery with the cover is 50% until the 30th, so thats only 20 bucks. Getting on on Thursday.

[corymcnutt]

POSTED: Mine worked fine from 9:30AM Thursday until 9:30PM Friday night with no issues...then my phone shut down by itself and it would not allow me to start it again. I had to do a battery pull in order to get it to turn back on, and then it told me I wasn't connected to Verizon...it took a few minutes for that to happen. But, from that point on, I had several restarts. I did force google maps to close and I did download several apps before this started. I did the sim card pull that someone recommened and so far the past 6 hours no reboots?
UPDATE: Ok, it started again - a couple times it wouldn't wake-up so I had to do a battery pull. I started having more frequent random reboots. I went to the Verizon store and they put a new 4G Sim card in for me. I left the parking lot and lost all connection with Verizon. A little further up the road it did a random reboot, so we turned the car around and went back to Verizon. The guy saw me coming and after I told him what happened he gave me a new phone about 11:30 AM today...8 hours later NO REBOOTS and NO LOST SERVICE! I am slowly adding my apps back on this phone and hoping my first Bionic was just defective.
He told me they sold a lot of Bionics and mine was the first one he received as a return...take it for what it is worth. There do not seem to be too many on this board that has this problem, so hopefully it was just a small amount overall. Otherwise I LOVE this phone.

[pauliphone5]

POSTED: Mine worked fine from 9:30AM Thursday until 9:30PM Friday night with no issues...then my phone shut down by itself and it would not allow me to start it again. I had to do a battery pull in order to get it to turn back on, and then it told me I wasn't connected to Verizon...it took a few minutes for that to happen. But, from that point on, I had several restarts. I did force google maps to close and I did download several apps before this started. I did the sim card pull that someone recommened and so far the past 6 hours no reboots?
UPDATE: Ok, it started again - a couple times it wouldn't wake-up so I had to do a battery pull. I started having more frequent random reboots. I went to the Verizon store and they put a new 4G Sim card in for me. I left the parking lot and lost all connection with Verizon. A little further up the road it did a random reboot, so we turned the car around and went back to Verizon. The guy saw me coming and after I told him what happened he gave me a new phone about 11:30 AM today...8 hours later NO REBOOTS and NO LOST SERVICE! I am slowly adding my apps back on this phone and hoping my first Bionic was just defective.
He told me they sold a lot of Bionics and mine was the first one he received as a return...take it for what it is worth. There do not seem to be too many on this board that has this problem, so hopefully it was just a small amount overall. Otherwise I LOVE this phone.

It sounds like you got a lemon with the first phone. I hope that the second one works out better for you.

[Reddragonjh]

I am having an issue with the bluetooth not working correctly. In my car I can get the BT to dial the number but I have to talk thru the handset. Any ideas fellow android peps?

[oliverobtuse]

To anyone having weird problems... I worked for Verizon and have had many phones. Last phone I had was the LG Revolution before getting the Bionic. When I first got the Revo, it cut off 5 times while activating and would not budge. Then, I took out my old memory card and put in the fresh one and it was fine. Something on my memory card pics was screwing it up.

So, to the OP, are you using your old memory card from the Droid 1? (mine was still from the Droid1) If so, try the fresh one. See what happens for 10 or 15 minutes.

[megalosdawg]

There is nothing wrong with you're phone....well there is but it's not hardware related.. It's the OS it happens with android and there is nothing you can do about it

[Nashcat]

there is nothing wrong with you're phone....well there is but it's not hardware related.. It's the os it happens with android and there is nothing you can do about it

PoSER ALeRT

[teddyheisman#ac]

I haven't had a chance to read through this thread or read the board much lately.....

Has anyone noticed a problem with the display staying on while the phone is being charged?

It seems like I always have to manually turn the display off every time.


I'm sure this has already been addressed.....but like I said, I haven't been on much lately.



Thanks!

[shadowsjc]

I haven't had a chance to read through this thread or read the board much lately.....

Has anyone noticed a problem with the display staying on while the phone is being charged?

It seems like I always have to manually turn the display off every time.


I'm sure this has already been addressed.....but like I said, I haven't been on much lately.



Thanks!

Menu -> settings -> applications -> development. Make sure that "stay awake" is unchecked; otherwise, your phone will always stay on while charging

[kath00]

Just posted on the Motorola forum too: my phone would not turn on tonight. Never woke from sleep. I tried holding button down for 10 seconds with no results. Had to pull the battery out to get it to reboot again. Now it's working fine.

Lots of others have reported a similar issue on the Moto forum so I am hoping they are looking into it.

Katherine

[tdizzel]

I haven't had a chance to read through this thread or read the board much lately.....

Has anyone noticed a problem with the display staying on while the phone is being charged?

It seems like I always have to manually turn the display off every time.


I'm sure this has already been addressed.....but like I said, I haven't been on much lately.



Thanks!

There's a search button so you can look for something specific without having to read the whole thread

[miltk]

haven't pulled the trigger on a bionic yet.

i read an article loving the long battery life, but i've also heard otherwise in other reviews. what's the verdict?

hows the accuracy of the gps/maps/navigation?

thx all