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Just Exchanged My Droid For Another

I got my Droid on the 6th from Bb. It is 40/09.
I really love my Droid.
my only issues are
1. Screen sometimes cycles dim.bright.dim.bright?? Not sure what this is. But it seems pretty bright even at night, could the ambient light sensor be skewed.
2. Battery life is marginal, is this possibly due to the above?
3. I don't like the hard black case. I need a good case for rugged use, and a holster, car holder etc...

Other than those minor tweeks this is a magnificent phone, haven't had to power up the laptop for 3 days!!
Mike
 
39/09 and no problems other than Wifi sometimes drops out when cycling from "sleep" to "awake." Toggle on/off usually solves this. Probably just my old router giving it hell. It's a Motorola too...:rolleyes:

Battery life has been fine. But I don't have unrealistic expectations from a phone that does so much, especially all at once. If I'm on it all the time I expect the battery life to take a hit. Right now I'm at 80% after texts and emails for 5 hours.
 
You can pry my 39/09 from my dead fingers!

Just from some accounts, these are possibly the best ones :)
 
Three Droids in 1 week.....1st was 42/09-next 39/09 and today 44/09. The camera works (green focus brackets come on fine (even in low light). No reboots/freezing yet. I have my fingers crossed. This is the first Droid that the camera worked fine. Still a little grainy, but I am able to get a focus lock without trying too hard.
 
I'm really thinking a lot of what we're hearing about comes down to user error. There will always be a few badly manufactured batches, but when it comes to things like battery life and responsiveness, much of that can be chalked up to bad apps and overuse by the user with unrealistic expectations. I always ask the question to my friend who has the Droid as well, especially since they just bought it, if they have cycled the power yet. Mainly because the first thing you do with this phone is to download and try new apps, a lot of the times followed by uninstalling. Just like ANY other operating system, a restart never hurt anybody.
 
Timaphillips said:
I'm really thinking a lot of what we're hearing about comes down to user error. There will always be a few badly manufactured batches, but when it comes to things like battery life and responsiveness, much of that can be chalked up to bad apps and overuse by the user with unrealistic expectations. I always ask the question to my friend who has the Droid as well, especially since they just bought it, if they have cycled the power yet. Mainly because the first thing you do with this phone is to download and try new apps, a lot of the times followed by uninstalling. Just like ANY other operating system, a restart never hurt anybody.
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well sorry to say you are dead wrong. i did everything to conserve battery life... EVERYTHING and nothing worked. the new phone fixed that all. doesn't sound like user error to me
 
Fabolous said:
I've seen 1x on my phone all of like 3 times during the week+ that I've had the Droid.

I would see it, say something to the extent of "what the hell is this..." and it would be fixed before I could finish my sentence.

If you know you're in a good coverage zone, you should definitely bring it in.

The antenna in the Droid beats the crap out of the Tour, and if you had great reception on the Tour (as I did), the Droid should be above and beyond that.

Mine is a 42/09, if that matters.
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OK, just went to the verizon store and told the techs that I'm always dropping to 1X. They said it was due to bad programming on the network end and they will reprogram my device/account. Well, just as I figured that was BS. As soon as I walked out to the parking lot it switched right over to 1X. I don't feel like driving back to the store a 3rd time today so I'll be back tomorrow and demand a replacement or return the Droid! Can't live with a 3G phone that is only on 1X. I went yesterday and the guy just told me it was "probably too many apps running in the background" (I'm an IT guy, I know about that and sure it wasn't and has no affect on network type). I hate to say negative things, but they are idiots.
 
Legacystar said:
well sorry to say you are dead wrong. i did everything to conserve battery life... EVERYTHING and nothing worked. the new phone fixed that all. doesn't sound like user error to me
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so you went through and verified EVERY app installed and made a list and checked them off?

ANY battery life problem I've seen here typically traces itself back to a battery hungry app that has NOT been updated to android 2.0, or poor implementation of something on a users part.

A great example is a widget that keeps data and gps on forever. Yet, the end user is oblivious to it and complains about battery life.

IMHO battery life is MUCH better than say the TP2 or even an iphone.
 
Mine is a 41/09. Got it at 8am on release day from a Verizon store. No problems really, battery life seems to be getting better though. I type so slow that i even get along with the keyboard ok. The camera could do with an update though.
 
syntrix said:
so you went through and verified EVERY app installed and made a list and checked them off?

ANY battery life problem I've seen here typically traces itself back to a battery hungry app that has NOT been updated to android 2.0, or poor implementation of something on a users part.

A great example is a widget that keeps data and gps on forever. Yet, the end user is oblivious to it and complains about battery life.

IMHO battery life is MUCH better than say the TP2 or even an iphone.
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well i have every app i had on my other one and the battery life is way better. don't know how many more ways i can make this point
 
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