After six months with the Droid X, I'm becoming disenchanted. It's starting to behave more and more like Windows -- meaning, the longer you use it, the more flakey it gets.
Lots of stuff doesn't work. Email syncing with GMail stopped working months ago. I now just use the browser version. Half the time when I try to turn on the WiFi hotspot, it won't come up and I have to reboot the phone.
Lately, I've been using PDANet to tether the phone to get away from the 2 gig limit on the hotspot, and I've found that to get full speed from it, I again have to reboot the phone.
70% of the time, when I try to use the media player, the player hangs and stops playing anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours into it, again, requiring a reboot.
I frequently don't get text message notifications. After a reboot, suddenly I'll get them.
Weatherbug never updates regularly. Many times it doesn't update at all unless I force it. I have the phone set on "Normal" power mode, not High Perf, and not Battery saver, so it SHOULD be updating throughout the day.
I've never rooted the phone, this is the original OS install from when I got it at launch, I don't have any special launchers on it, etc. All I really do is use it for checking email, internet connectivity, and occasional media playing and also sometimes Pandora (though not when tethering or with the hotspot).
Any ideas on what these problems might be? It just doesn't seem like an OS as advanced as Android, being Linux based and all, should be doing this.
Thanks.
Rob
Lots of stuff doesn't work. Email syncing with GMail stopped working months ago. I now just use the browser version. Half the time when I try to turn on the WiFi hotspot, it won't come up and I have to reboot the phone.
Lately, I've been using PDANet to tether the phone to get away from the 2 gig limit on the hotspot, and I've found that to get full speed from it, I again have to reboot the phone.
70% of the time, when I try to use the media player, the player hangs and stops playing anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours into it, again, requiring a reboot.
I frequently don't get text message notifications. After a reboot, suddenly I'll get them.
Weatherbug never updates regularly. Many times it doesn't update at all unless I force it. I have the phone set on "Normal" power mode, not High Perf, and not Battery saver, so it SHOULD be updating throughout the day.
I've never rooted the phone, this is the original OS install from when I got it at launch, I don't have any special launchers on it, etc. All I really do is use it for checking email, internet connectivity, and occasional media playing and also sometimes Pandora (though not when tethering or with the hotspot).
Any ideas on what these problems might be? It just doesn't seem like an OS as advanced as Android, being Linux based and all, should be doing this.
Thanks.
Rob