Annoyed by software bugs

[alpha752]

Let me first say, I LOVE this phone. The hardware is great, and the keyboard is suburb. But, I am getting pretty annoyed with the software on this thing. I have been suffering random reboots, slow unlocks, and now the phone will turn off notifications with out any warning (no tone or vibrate).

Blur is obviously a mess, and caused all sorts of problems in its own, but I put LauncherPro on and it solved half my problems. Screens flip quickly, it unlocks instantly, and performs great as far as the launcher is concerned.

But there are still bugs. Having the phone turn off notifications is pretty annoying. Reboots when closing the keyboard, or doing anything strenous is annoying. I had high hopes for this phone, and the hardware seems to be there, I cant help but think that Motorola screwed up the software. Im going to try my 3rd factory reset, but this is getting old. Im trying to wait out an update which will hopefully fix some of this, but knowing Moto, I could be waiting a while.

 

[spacecasespiff]

I would try to take it back. That sounds like to may bugs. I don't have any of those issues. I've had my phone for 9 days and I had 5 reboots. None in two days.

 

[ksalam]

It could be hardware, you should not be getting these types of issues.

 

[knowledgesbabigrl]

I have had my phone for about a week now, and I haven't had any issues. It's probably a hardware issue....

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Two observations:

1) Like other posters here, I've not had any of those problems.

2) If you buy a new smartphone within a few weeks of release, it almost certainly will have bugs. That is the sad truth these days - phones are rushed to market. Just as an example, my last phone was a BB Tour. After years of using the BB OS I was expecting a rock solid reliable phone. Instead, the bugs in the first few months were ridiculous. BT was nonfunctional, the battery lid squirmed and moved with a life of it's own, the phone wouldn't let me set any permissions on apps, and the damn cursor wouldn't move in a straight line in e-mails. To their credit, RIM worked hard to address all the issues and I had a stable phone four or five months later. But, that was 25% of the life of the contract!

 

[alpha752]

I've never had much luck getting exchanges from vzw for software issues. Do you think reboots is enough to get a new one?

 

[anon(257429)]

My issue was that all my notifications were reset to some random voice notes. Every single one.

 

[alpha752]

Went up to the store today and told the rep my tale. She said he has heard of 0 problems with the D3, and immeadiatly ordered a replacement. Well see how the new one goes.

 

[alpha752]

I got my replacement last night, and already had a reboot. I wasnt even doing anything, it was just sitting in my pocket.

Frustrated.

 

[akronevan2]

Alpha, that sucks. I would seriously look at the apps you have on your phone, the web pages you open, the emails you get, and other things that may be virus related. The mathematical probability of having the same problem on 2 different phones with the same user are fairly remote, so it is likely not the hardware.

 

[lotzakritters]

I to have had very minimal problems with the phone. I have, had a few random re-boots from useing the camera. The one thing that really bugs me the most, is that the phone has trouble unlocking while charging. Other than that, the phone has been awesome in every way. Battery, function, keyboard and speed are way better than my last phone-Bold 9650. Best choice I could have ever made, just saying...

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[WarER4X]

I to have had very minimal problems with the phone. I have, had a few random re-boots from useing the camera. The one thing that really bugs me the most, is that the phone has trouble unlocking while charging. Other than that, the phone has been awesome in every way. Battery, function, keyboard and speed are way better than my last phone-Bold 9650. Best choice I could have ever made, just saying...

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Regarding trouble unlocking the phone when charging, that sounds like problem I used to have with my OG Droid and (to a lesser degree) with this phone. The problem seems to be that certain power sources seem to generate a sort of touch screen "noise" (for lack of a better description) that makes touch responses jittery. The result is that (among other subtle issues), sliding motion inputs, like unlocking or pulling down the notification bar, are less responsive when plugged into the problem charging source. I've seen it on the D3, but it has been much more subdued than what is used to be on the OG Droid. With my OG Droid, if I was plugged into a charge source that did that, the screen would jump all over the place when I touched it. It would think I was trying to slide between homescreens when I was simply trying to open a shortcut.

-SR-