I cant stand my Droid anymore. It lags and force closes and on several occassions it just froze. The other day I push the icon to call out and nothing happened on the screen but the call was being made and for about a minute my friend was listening to me talk about my phone not making a call. I like the concept but it has too many problems after only eleven months of ownership. I don't want a refurbishid piece of crap either.
I hate Droid...
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You weren't running a Task Killer pre 2.2 were you? If so you might want to do a factory reset.
Also, you haven't moved any widgets or streaming apps (last.fm, pandora, twitter, facebook) to the SD card, did you? Putting things that you use frequently or in the background on the SD card causes a lot of lag.
Also, you haven't moved any widgets or streaming apps (last.fm, pandora, twitter, facebook) to the SD card, did you? Putting things that you use frequently or in the background on the SD card causes a lot of lag.
Yeah, I don't get why people have such an adversion to factory wipes.
All your contacts are saved, everything on your SD card is saved. At worse you'll have to reinstall apps, but if you're running Froyo this should do it for you automatically.
All your contacts are saved, everything on your SD card is saved. At worse you'll have to reinstall apps, but if you're running Froyo this should do it for you automatically.
I put it under my car tire and rolled it. Getting something else. It actually held up pretty good.
No, you don't. Once ADW Launcher screwed up my first Droid (and got the force close loop of hell), I had to go through 4 refurbished pieces of crap before I got another new Droid. I had a gazillion issues with the Moto Droid almost immediately. The D2 was worse for me, almost. Traded it for the Fascinate. The guy at the store assured me I'd still have "a bunch of problems" because it was "me, not the phone". Had this phone longer than any of my Droids, zero resets, zero battery pulls, zero problems, so he can suck it.
Sorry your phone is having problems, though. I'd call customer service and see what they can do.
Ahh, the benefit of Froyo. I'm hoping once my phone gets it the update will install smoothly and I won't have to reset. But I do like the auto install app thing.
I also agree with what others are saying about factory wipes. Definitely not the end of the world. Solves a lot of problems.. though not all. My refurbs never worked after a factory reset.
Sucks to hear all these problems with the Droid 1. I hope mine doesn't succumb to any of them. I do experience lag but I just force close most everything and all is better. I've also moved most of my apps to the SD card. I love the Droid 1 but wish it had more internal memory allocation.
I am also going through those issues as well. I am on my 4th replacement.
But I am probably more mad at VZW for how they are handling the situation.
First off I go to a VZW store. The rep sees the issues that I am having and proceeds to put in an order for another "certified like new" Droid. I tell her that I don't want another Droid can I have something else? She says well we don't make that decision, CS does that. So she documents my account so when I call CS they would go from there. So I thought.
So I call CS. The CSR tells me I have 3 options.
1: Purchase a "certified like new" device
2: Purchase a "certified pre owned" device
3: Use my early upgrade to get a new phone
Now mind you, I used an upgrade to get this phone in July. So why the **** would I use another upgrade to replace the upgrade?????????
But what also was even crazier was the fact that he said "well no one forced you to get the Droid" WHAT???????
To me that sounded like "oh we warned you not to get the Droid but you went and got it anyway"
What happened to satisfying the customer? I guess they figure "we have 80 million other customers, who cares about 1 or 2 complaints"
But I am probably more mad at VZW for how they are handling the situation.
First off I go to a VZW store. The rep sees the issues that I am having and proceeds to put in an order for another "certified like new" Droid. I tell her that I don't want another Droid can I have something else? She says well we don't make that decision, CS does that. So she documents my account so when I call CS they would go from there. So I thought.
So I call CS. The CSR tells me I have 3 options.
1: Purchase a "certified like new" device
2: Purchase a "certified pre owned" device
3: Use my early upgrade to get a new phone
Now mind you, I used an upgrade to get this phone in July. So why the **** would I use another upgrade to replace the upgrade?????????
But what also was even crazier was the fact that he said "well no one forced you to get the Droid" WHAT???????
To me that sounded like "oh we warned you not to get the Droid but you went and got it anyway"
What happened to satisfying the customer? I guess they figure "we have 80 million other customers, who cares about 1 or 2 complaints"
Unfortunately, that's just the way Verizon does things. So I'd always suggest factory resets and if it doesn't work, you're out of luck and are stuck with a refurbished phone unless you can use an upgrade or pay full price.
Well I already contacted one of my local news stations and they are gonna look into it because they have been getting tons of VZW complaints lately.
Push comes to shove there is always AT&T and Sprint.
Push comes to shove there is always AT&T and Sprint.
seriously thou, with the # of units and the # of customers there will be issues.
But how they are addressed is the key. Go in with the wrong attitude and that may very well take you down the wrong path for sure.
But how they are addressed is the key. Go in with the wrong attitude and that may very well take you down the wrong path for sure.
Update
I have recieved my certified like new device and so far it is operating flawlessly. I did not re install Launcher Pro. I think that was part of the lagging problems and force closes. I will use it a while and see how it goes. Mine was replaced under warranty. My original Droid had the buble keys and my new one has the flar keys and I like the flat keys better. They seem to have less resistance and I can text much easier.
I have recieved my certified like new device and so far it is operating flawlessly. I did not re install Launcher Pro. I think that was part of the lagging problems and force closes. I will use it a while and see how it goes. Mine was replaced under warranty. My original Droid had the buble keys and my new one has the flar keys and I like the flat keys better. They seem to have less resistance and I can text much easier.
*UPDATE*
I received my brand new Droid 2 this morning.
I hope I have a better experience with it, than I had with the Original Droid.
And without using my upgrade either.
I received my brand new Droid 2 this morning.
I hope I have a better experience with it, than I had with the Original Droid.
And without using my upgrade either.
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not going to lie, that "mr. jobs" remark made me laugh out loud haha.
this is directed towards people who are not happy with their droid's performance:
you have to understand that with the rapid development in android devices and capabilities, if you have an older android phone then you can't expect it to be flawless. i loved the droid when i had it even with its issues. it has held up and still is with it's competitors. due to it being old tech. it is a given that it will not be able to perform as well as the current line of android devices. You will have to concern yourself with what apps you are running and how much space you have available because if you do not then you will experience more lag than usual.
smartphones are developing so rapidly (android in particular) that it seems like every other month another manufacturer has a new flag ship device for launch. it is something that we will all have to get used to.
keep in mind, there is always the ability to early upgrade through verizon after a full year of your contract. there is a 20 or 30$ fee to do so but it may be worth it for some.
this is directed towards people who are not happy with their droid's performance:
you have to understand that with the rapid development in android devices and capabilities, if you have an older android phone then you can't expect it to be flawless. i loved the droid when i had it even with its issues. it has held up and still is with it's competitors. due to it being old tech. it is a given that it will not be able to perform as well as the current line of android devices. You will have to concern yourself with what apps you are running and how much space you have available because if you do not then you will experience more lag than usual.
smartphones are developing so rapidly (android in particular) that it seems like every other month another manufacturer has a new flag ship device for launch. it is something that we will all have to get used to.
keep in mind, there is always the ability to early upgrade through verizon after a full year of your contract. there is a 20 or 30$ fee to do so but it may be worth it for some.
I still have been using my "as good as new" Droid and everything seems to work as it's suppose to. I don't use Launcher Pro and the screen lag is very short. I don't know how it's possible that some people go through three or four refurbished devices and I only have one and it works great. It seems to me that some of those people are just angling to get an upgraded phone. Who knows. I see all of these people using these newer Andriod phone that are huge and it looks like the brick phone is back only flatter.
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