Droid Bionic Bugs Thread

[hokiesteve]

I noticed there have been questions about bugs with the phones. I've had a few of my own... I imagined they'll all be ironed out through verizon soon enough -- Or perhaps with an ICS update? haha

Anywho, instead of making a hundred threads maybe we can address them all here or in an official sticky, or if I missed one, there.

So the bugs I've found so far are the following:

1. '1' on the dial screen. -- I noticed through multiple automated calls that request you to punch in an account number or phone number, the '1' does not activate as quick as the other numbers. -- seems like everytime I try to tap it it turns off the screen. I bring the screen back and have to use my whole thumb for the phone to recognize the number '1' has been pushed. Kind of annoying -- hope it's a bug and I hope it's fixed.

2. Mobile Hotspot -- I'll have to get rid of this money sink once the phone is safely unrooted or Verizon comes down on their price. However, I have it now and it was working fine. but today it asked me to purchase it again. the tech informed me that the switch needed to be reset and didn't know why that wasn't being communicated from the device. -- Assuming another Bug.

3. Not sure if this is bug -- But the signal drops frequently. this may be a hardware issue. But late at night I'll have no signal.. I live in a 4G area and receive barely any 4G connectivity. I'm on the edge but not in the extended 4G zone. but apart from that at random times in the day I'll receive no signal -- sometimes requires a reset to acquire a signal.

4. Verizon Tones does not work on -- server is always busy. for days straight, I don't think so. I've tried purchasing ringtones from their online store. They text message you the ringtone to which when you save you'll run into an error -- SD Card unavailable. Another bug I presume.

5. Netflix app Cracking Ticking Clicking - Audio Issue - Perhaps another hardware issue with the speaker?

6. LED Notification - the notification LED will flash until the notification bar is pulled down. I believe the sd card message that pops up on boot, but self clears is triggering the notification LED.

7. Sleep/wake button on top to turn the screen off and it instantly turns back on.

8. Restart phone, certain apps that are already installed before says that 'this app is not installed'

Edit: added a few more that have been mentioned in the thread.

So if anyone has similar problems, feel free to list em here and if anyone has fixes for these issues please let me and us know.

Thanks!

9. Slow Wifi Connect. Wifi is slow to scan for networks, show available networks or connect to a known access point. It seems to be a software issue as loading Wifi Analyzer will force a scan and it connects pretty much immediately.

 

[KillerG]

I definitely have had problems with my 4G and 3G dropping...but I just switch on and off airplane mode and no harm done. I also have had a few random force quits for no reason, and some random reboots, but not so many that I can't stand it. I love this phone though, and I'll make it work no matter what, but so far I haven't had to many problems that are worth mentioning. If you can put the phone unable to focus under a bug, yeah I have problems with the camera...and I want to buy Vignette ASAP.
For some reason yesterday though, I was trying to set up FLUD News to display my school's online newspaper as a feed on a widget, and it just kept force closing over and over again. I think the phone rebooted randomly and I haven't had a problem with it since.

 

[compQueen]

my 4G gets dropped, sometimes no signal at all, but a hard reset fixes it...? so mad cuz I wanna surf...not look at a "cannot load this webpage" msg. stupid.

 

[kalytn]

I have a signal issue. I can sit here and watch my phone in a matter of minutes go from 0 bars to 5 bars and everywhere in between. At the same time, my data goes from 1x to 3g (don't have 4g here at work but do at home). When the data icons are showing, I try to go to the Internet or Facebook and the icon disappears and I get a "no connection" error message. This isn't happening with any other phones in my office so it's driving me crazy! So report, report, report! I need an update soon!

 

[rcbarrieault]

I have noticed that I have a shortcut on my home screen for an app. There are times that there is no picture on that shortcut, and then hours later the picture will return. Then it goes away again. This same app gave me a not enough memory error when I was installing it, but then it installed anyway.

 

[CobbFC09]

The only problem I am having is when I connect my phone to my computer. For whatever reason, one of my apps always says it is not installed.