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I'm surprised I haven't seen a thread on here about reception issues. My 3G goes in and out , from 4 bars to 1 and even zero bars at times while the phone is staying in the exact spot. does anyone thing this is a hardware or software issue?
The lock screen totally lags. it's almost ridiculous I have about 4 frames for the entire animation of it sliding left to right
I can't figure out a way to make the SMS limit per conversation over 1000. The phone keeps deleting my texts =( Is there a way around this I'm missing ...?
Love the phone it just seems like there's a few REALLY silly stupid problems with it .
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My voice search just will not search my contacts... I noticed it will only find contacts which are synced with Google, however even though i have my options to sync my contacts. i still only have 5/173 of my contacts synced.
For some silly reason there is ONE person ( that i know of) who's facebook profile was not downloaded into my phonebook . I only care for the picture ID .. but it's odd every one else (whom i know of) was downloaded other than him, spoke to him there's nothing special about his profile.
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Has anyone noticed a clicking sound which sometimes happens whenever the camera is opened? It sounds as if something near the camera is physically clicking
any other droid 2 owners have these problems?
You're totally right about the 3G going in and out. I'm in my basement and when I'm on a call, it actually drops. Last night I called my g/f back from my house phone, and the bars jumped from 1 back to 4. Sometimes I get that 1X instead of 3G.
The phone totally has potential, I just hope a root comes out soon and we have a lot of room to play with. I came off the Motorola Cliq to the Droid 2 and honestly, even with my Cliq rooted, it seems way superior to the quality I'm getting on the Droid 2.
Let alone that the service provider is Verizon, the service should be the best... The only good thing I can say about the phone is that I'm able to watch flash videos off the web, and the new games coming out are actually playable without lag. Other than that, Tethering without root is like having PDAnet on my phone. I use EasyTether right now and it's not much faster that PDAnet. I also hope when root drops, j_r0dd from modmymobile gets his hands on it, I missed my white on black theme and I prefer the Droid X bootanimation on my start up.
have you tried the manual update to 2.2.20? I experienced the signal bug having my reception drop to 1x while it was 3g a minute before and the phone wasn't moved, but after i did the manual update to 2.2.20 by going to system -> software update i haven't seen it since.
With the unlock screen, I at first noticed lag but after reading motorolas recommendations on how a smartphone is like a computer and it should be shut off / rebooted occasionally, i did shut down a couple times and the phone is very smooth now and the unlock animation is perfect.
try shutting down the phone and unplugging the battery for a little and then put the battery back in and let it boot up. I believe the phone uses some kind of cache system that loads up frequently used items on startup, maybe that is why its smooth now.
droid2andyou said:
With the unlock screen, I at first noticed lag but after reading motorolas recommendations on how a smartphone is like a computer and it should be shut off / rebooted occasionally, i did shut down a couple times and the phone is very smooth now and the unlock animation is perfect.
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Bull****.
10 char.
droid2andyou said:
have you tried the manual update to 2.2.20? I experienced the signal bug having my reception drop to 1x while it was 3g a minute before and the phone wasn't moved, but after i did the manual update to 2.2.20 by going to system -> software update i haven't seen it since.
With the unlock screen, I at first noticed lag but after reading motorolas recommendations on how a smartphone is like a computer and it should be shut off / rebooted occasionally, i did shut down a couple times and the phone is very smooth now and the unlock animation is perfect.
try shutting down the phone and unplugging the battery for a little and then put the battery back in and let it boot up. I believe the phone uses some kind of cache system that loads up frequently used items on start up, maybe that is why its smooth now.
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The update did nothing for me =/... I've rebooted countless times, still nothing , the next thing that really aggravates is the text message limit... smart phones are supposed to have practically unlimited sms/phone book storage. I still can't find a way around it .
Biggest problems are the reception issues, considering it's most probably a hardware issue and no update will fix it=(
shoman24v said:
Bull****.
10 char.
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I don't know what to say, it was laggy when i first got the phone and after a few shutdowns and restarts over a couple days and a shutdown battery pull for 10 minutes and a reboot and its been perfect ever since. seems like you don't know what your doing.
Bull****. The slider to answer calls is smooth. The lockscreen is not and rebooting it does not fix it. Post a video so I can believe you. I even reset the phone and it didn't help.
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I've had my Droid 2 since the release day, my first Verizon phone. I have to agree with the lock screen lag, but I have noticed something interesting with the reception issues. I'm new to verizon so I don't know if this happens with other verizon android phones but when I first wake the phone up from sleep I have one to no bars then 5-10 seconds later I usually have 4-5 bars. It seems as if the cdma radio/software goes into a type of power save mode durring sleep to save on battery power. If this is the case I can imagine the issue could be something to do the the power save mode hanging when the system wakes up, also power save mode could be a little too sensitive.
Now my inferences are completely unfounded in any knowledge other than my observations, and some basic knowledge of porting android to my old Att Tilt. If there is someone out there who knows more please correct me as I would love to stand corrected.
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Yup same here, the slider to answer calls is fine. I've come to a conclusion its just a buggy OS moto prepared quickly. Let's hope for a real update soon.
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My 3G as of now seems to have fixed itself this morning . Has this happened for anyone else ?
after doing the 2.20 update my signal problems were all fixed and the phone works increible!!!
yes there is a little clicking sound when you go to the camera. If you look into the camera lends as you open the camera app you can see it sorta move a tiny bit so there might be some protectivething over the camera lens somewhere inside there but that is just a guess.
shoman24v said:
Bull****. The slider to answer calls is smooth. The lockscreen is not and rebooting it does not fix it. Post a video so I can believe you. I even reset the phone and it didn't help.
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your asking for a lot right now. I'm not 100% sure what yours looks like but my animation at first was choppy. I noticed it the first couple times I used my phone. However after a few shutdowns and battery pulls the lock screen seems to be pretty smooth and it follows my finger with no lag.
I have also removed all the Motorola widgets from my home screens, not sure if that had something to do with it.
The 2.2.0 update did nothing whatsoever to fix my signal issues. Still getting wide variations in coverage and signal (1bar 1x RTT to 1 bar 3g to 3-4 bars 3g all from the same spot in multiple areas)
Have you tried using another launcher like launcher pro, it fixed the lag with my unlock screen, I think the blur uses up too much memory.
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The update did nothing to fix my signal issues. I don't have a problem with lag except in the gallery.
I called customer server to complain about the reception problems. The rep I talked to said Verizon is aware of the reception problems, but they aren't sure if it's the phone or the network.
He said there are other people in my area complaining of reception problems that don't have the Droid 2. He also mentioned something about areas that were mostly Alltel that are having problems. He did something on his end that is suppose to block some kind of signal having to do with Alltel and had me run the PRL update again, he said it could take up to 2 days for me to notice a difference if that was the problem.
I was also told to log each dropped call by dialing ### send.
I noticed something odd, yesterday I did a factory reset, after rooting. When I started to set everthing up I turned off the battery manager in settings, and since then it appears if all my reception issues have disappeared.
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Is that something you can configure after a factory reset without root?
Yeah, if you go to settings, battery manager, battery mode, and set it to performance. Let me know if you notice anything different.
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Yeah, if you go to settings, battery manager, battery mode, and set it to performance. Let me know if you notice anything different.
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Ah, I've always been running mine in performance mode. Did a factory reset last night and still nothing. This is really getting frustrating.
To all in this thread,
I forgive those who are ignorant and just don't know. However, if you are purposely ignorant then please stop posting.
daredevile said:
I'm surprised I haven't seen a thread on here about reception issues. My 3G goes in and out , from 4 bars to 1 and even zero bars at times while the phone is staying in the exact spot. does anyone thing this is a hardware or software issue?
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3G only shows and lights up if data transfer is occurring or if you have no 1X signal. The signal bars jump because the radio is not always transferring data (over 3G) and therefore you see it grab the signal (0-1 bars) then get full signal (3-4 bars depending on coverage of course) and once finished, bye bye.
This saves you battery. It is truly a SMARTphone. It also keeps bandwidth available to those also using a Motorola D2 and wondering the same thing.
daredevile said:
The lock screen totally lags. it's almost ridiculous I have about 4 frames for the entire animation of it sliding left to right
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I noticed this as well. Could be too much going on since you just turned your screen back on and apps are trying to update for you. Kind of like how you quickly pull your pants back up as your g/f is walking in the door and you act like nothing happened, but you were totally going to town.
daredevile said:
I can't figure out a way to make the SMS limit per conversation over 1000. The phone keeps deleting my texts =( Is there a way around this I'm missing ...?
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If there isn't a setting in the Text Messaging application then no. Possible solutions are to look for an app or keep hanging around here.
daredevile said:
Love the phone it just seems like there's a few REALLY silly stupid problems with it .
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It's only stupid until you get used to it. Then it's annoying. Then it's silly. Then you'll find a way to get around the issues or an update will fix them.
daredevile said:
My voice search just will not search my contacts... I noticed it will only find contacts which are synced with Google, however even though i have my options to sync my contacts. i still only have 5/173 of my contacts synced.
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Try another Voice app or sync all your contacts with Google.
daredevile said:
For some silly reason there is ONE person ( that i know of) who's facebook profile was not downloaded into my phonebook . I only care for the picture ID .. but it's odd every one else (whom i know of) was downloaded other than him, spoke to him there's nothing special about his profile.
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Facebook syncing has issues - sometimes really weird issues. It's a problem across all phone OS's.
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Has anyone noticed a clicking sound which sometimes happens whenever the camera is opened? It sounds as if something near the camera is physically clicking
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the phone has a mechanical shutter. hence the amazing pictures. it IS physically clicking. it's pretty sweet.
Not sure if it's just me or not but has anyone noticed a cell standby issue too? My phone gets up to around 20% while I sleep which is weird because in my room I have four bars... so is it my device or does anyone else havt the same issue?
I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
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My cell standby floats around 11% at all times.
I find this to be acceptable.
My battery life has been satisfactory.
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As long as this means my gmail/text/gtalk works automatically, I figure I may as well leave this off.
I don't use any syncing apps like Facebook, our anything like that.
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I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?
Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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egg_head said:
Ah, screw this.
Market doesn't work without it turned on and neither does the Yahoo Mail app.
That wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't bothered by Yahoo with a notification tray icon telling me to turn it on.
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Use Gmail?
I use both and can't justify getting rid of my Yahoo just yet.
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DigitalDementia said:
I should have thought of this before. Turning off now, we'll see what happens. Also does anyone else notice flaky 3g connection mine is weird, a lot of the time my 3g bar just says 3g with a d under it instead of arrows and my signal fluxuates quite frequently verdict for you guys?
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The d under the 3g bar is like a 3g "idle" icon if u will. But i have had a lot of issues with service and 3g. I rarely get above 2 bars and if i do its only for a short while. I lose 3g more often than i would like and get the dreaded 1x though it usually switches right back. I absolutely love this phone but the constantly having weak signal is killing my experience. Am i the only one struggling for service?
Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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garywojdan81 said:
Nope, same here. Just left the Verizon store for the second time for this issue & connection errors with the Samsung email app. Their fix for this? "No one's having these problems that we know of. Let's try another PRL list."
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I've encountered problems with the stock e-mail app on several Android phones.
There's seemly no answer to why it works and then doesn't work.
You'll find numerous threads suggesting you use K9, or some other 3rd party e-mail application for many POP3 e-mail addresses.
My main e-mail is a GMail, so that's a convenience for me.
I also use a Yahoo and before the Yahoo Mail app from the Market, I would also have trouble with the Android e-mail application from time to time.
According to the battery monitor, Cell standby is using a lot of my battery. Seems like this started happening more once I flashed the voodoo kernel and overclocked to 1.2 GHz, and put the "kickstand" case on my phone. I'm going to run fora few more days and see if it's consistently bad, and if so, I'll try taking the case off first to see if it gets better.
For instance this morning it says Cell standby has used 33% of my battery, it's been on for 11 hours, and I haven't charged in about 6 hours. I've dropped to 62% battery capacity, with the screen mostly off and not using the phone in those 6 hours. It says my time without a signal is 23%, I've seen it as high as 40%... I don't get very good signal in my apartment, but this seems wayyyy worse than it should be. I did a *228 update yesterday but that doesn't seem to have helped.
thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
chopper the dog said:
I did notice this myself. I would go to sleep with 95% and wake up with 70%.
So went to Settings/Accounts and Services/ and turned off Background Data.
Went to sleep last night with 97% and woke up this mornin' (nah na na nuh) with 94%. The gmail app seems to hammer the data. And I have found no scheduling within that app. Stock app has scheduling gonna try that and report back.
btw: with background data off and you go to the market it wants it on so I'll turn it on and back off after.
good day.
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thanks, was wondering why battery drop 20% even when i set to airplane mode before bed.
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Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
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My cell standby stays high at my home as time without a signal is between 45% to 65%. My battery life is horrible because of this. I am unrooted...
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i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
chopper the dog said:
Disregard what I said. That statement was made before a root. I significantly improved battery by rooting, purchasing titanium pro and freezing all things verizon and countless other apps that came on the phone.
Things I have frozen.
3G Mobile hotspot
411 search
analog clock 1,2,3,and 4
All live wallpapers
Backup Assistant
Bing
Blockbuster
Buddies now
Calender clock
car cradle
city ID
daily briefing
desk cradle
digital clock 1and2
dual clock 1and2
Email 2.1 (I only use gmail)
Feeds and updates
InnoPath
Kindle
memo 1.0
MobileIM
My verizon mobile
Skype
SNSAccount
Swype (I use touch pal)
Sync service
vcast music, tones, videos
voicemail 1.0.20
vvmservice
vz navigator
vzw sms filter
weather clock
Have not needed the car charger since. Goes whole day and more.
good day.
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shagaholik said:
i actually have TB Pro freezing majority of the stuff on your list. even installed SuperPower by Chainfire (thread #807989 since i can't post links) to help w/ conserving power. even in airplane mode still lose 20-25% by the time i wake up.
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Sounds like a background process is hogging. See this post. Hope it helps find your problem.
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I have and love the new DJ05 update I just have one question. Ever since I installed it I have a new Icon on the top status bar of my phone that is like a diamond box with a plus sign in it and then off to the right side there are some curved shaped bars that get progressively bigger like a voice or signal strength icon. At first I thought it was my GPS but when I turn GPS off that symbol stays there and when I am using GPS then I get a different GPS icon. I'm not sure what this symbol is and I was just curious if anyone knows what it is.
Ok so I just unticked all the location services in the location settings and the icon remains on the phone but the curved bars next to it go away if they are all unticked, so it must have to do with my current location. Maybe it is just a little notification saying it knows where it is.
Hey, why don't we tell the world that we have dj05? There was a reason that you're supposed to not talk about it on forums...
Please refer to irc.
Retrokid's updated AOSP theme gets rid of the icon by making it transparent. That's the only way to actually get rid of it at this time as far as I know.
Thatdudebutch's SuperDark theme also gets rid of it.
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Another one... Locked
I just let my phone update from OG5 to OK3.
Now I have a new icon in the notification bar. But, it's greyed out, so I didn't even see it at first.
Any idea what this icon is?
It looks like the 4G and Wifi icons mashed together into one. The upper left quadrant of the icon says 4G. The upper right has a lightning bolt. The lower left is the WiFi symbol. The lower right is the up/down data transfer arrows.
Like I said, it's all greyed out. I still have the regular WiFi and 4G LTE icons in the notification bar as well and they are both lit up and working. The new icon is between the Bluetooth icon (on the left) and the regular WiFi icon (on the right).
What does it all mean?!?! Oh, the humanity!
I believe that is download booster. You should be able to turn it off in settings>more networks>download booster
Ah HA! Yes! I just verified, that is what it is!
I saw DB in my settings the other day and turned it on to see if it makes any difference. I didn't notice the new icon at the time, so I thought it was something with the OK3 update.
Thank you!
ps. Any reason I would not leave that on? I have Unlimited Data, so I don't care if it results in higher data usage.
With unlimited data I cant see many downsides to leaving it on? It might use more battery when you are downloading large files (in exchange for downloading them faster?)
That's what I was thinking. Thanks.
I've had a Wear 24 for about three weeks. Yesterday, for the first time, I noticed an icon in the settings dropdown (next to the Bluetooth and wifi indicators) that looked like a sim card with a line struck through it. This icon had never appeared before. Perhaps coincidentally, yesterday was also my best battery life day since I got the watch. While the icon was present, I also saw little arrows next to the Bluetooth symbol indicating upload/download activity.
Today, that icon is gone and so are the arrows (and battery life is worse, though I'm using a different watch face, so who knows?).
Cellular connectivity is switched off and I've never activated the watch on the VZW network. Anyone understand what's up? Thanks.
CarlosDanger said:
I've had a Wear 24 for about three weeks. Yesterday, for the first time, I noticed an icon in the settings dropdown (next to the Bluetooth and wifi indicators) that looked like a sim card with a line struck through it. This icon had never appeared before. Perhaps coincidentally, yesterday was also my best battery life day since I got the watch. While the icon was present, I also saw little arrows next to the Bluetooth symbol indicating upload/download activity.
Today, that icon is gone and so are the arrows (and battery life is worse, though I'm using a different watch face, so who knows?).
Cellular connectivity is switched off and I've never activated the watch on the VZW network. Anyone understand what's up? Thanks.
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The first wear 24 I got had that icon permanently. Something was wrong with the sim card/tray. I returned it and got a new one. My guess is you have a slightly loose or defective sim slot or card...
I disabled sim and run in airplane mode all the time. Never activated. Always see that icon. Assumed because I disabled all the Verizon network stuff. Seeing roughly 22h battery life
I see it, too. I disabled the SIM in SIM Info, and the icon appeared and has stayed. Get pretty good battery life as a result.
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I see it, too. I disabled the SIM in SIM Info, and the icon appeared and has stayed. Get pretty good battery life as a result.
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When I go to the SIM Info app, I see a permission request that doesn't do anything when I touch it. What did you disable and where so that the icon appears and battery life improves?