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  1. X

    Root 4 hr battery life, touch screen wacky and a HOT phone

    My phone is seriously getting worse and worse everyday. I rooted it with the one click root a while ago and installed the SteelDroid ROM. I want completely reset my phone and unroot it so I can take it back. Any help?
  2. J

    Contacts save help please

    Hi; How do I save contacts to sd card(or even sim) and not Google or backup assistant. I am not on Ver. so B.U. Ass. does not work and I don't trust Google. My old phone(HTC) had a setting for this but D3 does not or I cant find it. TIA
  3. T

    Root Need help!! Dont know what i did!!!

    hello im new to the forum but i think i bricked my droid 3 i was trying to install this rom: KEXEC-cm-9-20120905-UNOFFICIAL-solana.zip and dont know what/if i did something wrong HERE'S WHAT I DID THAT I THINK WAS WRONG: I wiped selected [WIPE DATA / FACTORY RESET] Then i selected [WIPE CACHE]...
  4. furchimdq

    Help I cant download from G.Play (Error 491) n' other errors

    I bought a Moto Droid 3, the guy told me that is blocked (was from Verizon, and im from Argentina) to call and send sms/mms, but i could use Android apps with WiFi, the camera, etc... I didnt want to call or send sms, i wanted to use it as a WiFi Tablet and the camera 1080p. So i thought great...
  5. Knitewulf

    Root Motofail doesn't work on .906 for me!

    It says I have a read only file system. I have no idea how to fix that please help
  6. J

    Help Help Please! ph seems to be muted

    Hi I have a problem, all of a sudden my phone seems to be muted. I can not even hear it dialing(it does) I can hear it ring for incoming call so not speaker. I can talk But can not hear anyone/thing. I know it is hopefully something simple. volume settings are on highest. seems to work in...
  7. C

    Root Droid 3 Re-Root Question. PLEASE HELP!!!

    Okay for starters I am a rookie to this forum. I have had the Droid 3 for almost year now, rooted (with one click method), and just recieved my first OTA Verizon update 5.7.906.XT862. I tried the manual un-root method and it appeared to work. Then I installed the Verizon OTA update. After...
  8. J

    How do I increase font?

    Hi; First off thanks for this forum and all its help. now! How do you increase the font size so us older guys with weaker eyes can read it? I tried an app called "Big Font" but it does not work very well and not at all with sms. If there is a setting I missed it. TIA
  9. bryan847

    Root Advice

    Hello Everyone! I have to send my phone back and get a replacement because my back light is out. I literally cannot see anything unless I hold it up to a lamp. I dont know if they will ask for my old one back but I assume they will and I dont want my root to complicate things. I have...
  10. L

    Help wet droid no servce

    My droid fell out of pocket and got waves of water on it. Dried it out with rice and it works two days later but wont connect to verizon service for anything. Please help!:confused::confused::confused:
  11. D

    Help Application Music - crashing

    Hello, I have a rooted Droid 3 - it's been rooted since February. (I really don't do much with the root-capabilities, I actually rooted it initially so I could take screenshots. I also run Titanium backup.) My issue: This afternoon, when I tried to get into my music player (Cloudskipper), it...
  12. Mayhem

    Root Fast battery drain + HOT phone

    For some reason my battery is draining incredibly fast. I thought maybe I'd installed something that was eating it so I re-flashed and didn't let it auto-restore. That hasn't helped. I also noticed that the phone feels hot. I was running a battery monitor app that showed it was hitting 116...
  13. Knitewulf

    Help Touchscreen not working in portrait mode but is working in landscape mode, help?

    Recently my touchscreen has become unresponsive in portrait mode, all 4 hardware buttons are useless as well the simple solution to this is to slide the keyboard up and the touchscreen starts working again as well as the 4 hardware buttons. It doesn't seem like the touchscreens broken or that...
  14. jaycbrf4

    Help How do I type with physical keyboard?

    I can type the ♥ symbol with the on screen keyboard on my Droid 3 but I can not figure out how to type it on the physical keyboard.
  15. E

    Help Help moving pics from phone to sd card

    Moving pictures from phone storage to sd card. I just got a replacement phone & realized that I have 6,000 pictures saved to my original phone. I didnt realize they were being saved to my actual phone & not the sd card. Ive searched but cannot figure out a way to move them to the...
  16. P

    Root UNROOT Manually

    Hey guys just wanted to add this to the forum, maybe even get it stickied. Before you attempt this make sure you unfreeze or restore any system apps you removed when rooted. To manually Unroot your Droid 3: Download "Android Terminal" from Play Store Start the Terminal and make sure you are...
  17. ChadWilliam1

    Change Keyboard

    I Just got a droid 3 and I am trying to change the keyboard but I am having no luck. This is not my first Android either. I just switched to the 3 from the Casio Commando. Can somebody help me figure out how to change to the regular phone style keyboard. Like the old button style phones...
  18. Mayhem

    Root Flashed ICS ROM - problem with purchased programs

    So I installed SteelDroid 5.5 which is supposed to be ICS 4.0.4. When I went into Play, Titanium Backup Pro shows the price and not Purchased. Anyone have this happen before and resolve it?
  19. J

    Root Flash Droid 3 to prepay

    Does anyone know how to flash the Droid 3 to prepay from a contract?
  20. P

    Root Droid 3 Won't Flash/Reset/Anything

    I've tried many different things in alot of the threads I've read on this forum and nothing is working. I tried using the One-Click root on my Droid and it didn't work, come to find out, it was an outdated method for the Droid 3. It messed up my phone. My apps constantly crash. My texts...
  21. B

    Root Phone stuck in boot loop after Safestrap install HELP!

    So I rooted my Droid 3 and I installed Safestrap.apk I had successfully installed a recovery as well as backed up the systemorig to my ext sdcard via safestrap in recovery. Then when I rebooted system the phone is now stuck in boot loop and won't boot into recovery. Can someone help? In...
  22. B

    should I update to latest 906 SW

    my phone is running ok. is there any reason i should or should not upgrade to the latest version. does it fix anything significant, or break anything significant? also, i plan to root just to get a few things, like better battery life and other features root offers me. Not to put up custom...
  23. S

    replaced digitizer (screen) , now white screen "of death"

    I have a droid 3 , i cracked the screen.. so I ordered a new digitizer, and i replaced it. Everything was fine.. phone powered on , but I noticed I put together the phone incorrectly , the plastic was bulging in one area.. so I disassembled it again, corrected it, and reassembled. When I was...
  24. Clementine_3

    Anyone having reboot issues?

    My D3 is getting worse, reboots about every 4 or so days now. It seems to have started after the update. It would reboot once in a while, then once every other week and now it is not even a full week. I really don't want to do a factory reset but I am getting really annoyed (I will end up...
  25. L

    Root Bluetooth Not working- Next Step?

    A couple of days after re-rooting my Droid 3 after the 906 update, my bluetooth started to malfunction. When I turn bluetooth on, it continues to turn on and off untill the phone crashes. If I try to enter bluetooth settings, settings crashes and takes me to my home screen. The only system...
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