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Koda650

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Over the past few months I have been having problems with my Droid X, but it has come to the point where it is unbearable.

The first major problem is receiving calls or making calls. I could be in my home with my network extender, outside in a field with full 3g, or in San Francisco but half the time I make a call I cannot hear anyone on the other side. This happens at least once or twice a day and I have to pull the battery out and reinsert it in order to hear the other person on the call. They can hear me but I never hear anything.

The second major problem is the battery life. I cannot make it through a full day (8am-11pm) without having to charge at least once, even on minimal use. It seems to drain a lot faster when I am constantly driving around San Francisco, is it spending battery to switch between cell towers? I have WiFi, GPS, BT, all disabled. I am using only a few applications as well. The only thing that I know of which updates at set intervals, besides the standard Google applications, is the beautiful widgets weather which is once to update every few hours. I can go from 100% to 0% in less than three hours just playing games for about an hour and browsing the internet for about two hours, is this normal?

The third major problem is that the phone lags so much. I have reset the phone many times to the default settings and tried different applications or no applications but the problem always exists. Even with it running absolute stock with nothing else installed it will lag all the time, at least 5 times an hour. Every time it lags it can last up to a full minute where the phone is completely useless. This presents a major problem when I am working with time sensitive material or trying to text my boss or make an important call or collaborate with other students at my university.

Are there any known fixes for these problems? I tried searching for these problems and I couldn't find any solutions for these problems that actually work, although I have not searched for the lag issue. Thank you in advance.
 
Why yes, there is a solution!! There are several things you can do.

Blue pill: Call verizon tech support and complain to them that you are very unsatisfied with tthe quality of the phone. Explain to them everything you said here. Including doing factory resets because that will be the first thing they have you do. And you know the shitty part about them telling you that? They don't explain what it will do. A lot of people can't afford to lose application data that isn't saved to the SD card. They will then say, Okay Mr./Mrs. Koda650, we're going to send you a replacement phone and (if it's before noon or so and not a Sunday) it will be at your house tomorrow.

Red pill: Fix it on your own and learn A LOT about android and your phone in the process. Also, I dunno about you but when I do this stuff on my own it gives me a great sense of accomplishment. The second option I propose is to learn about the rooting process so you can ditch that stock ROM that is horrible and get on something better. You can join us in the Root subsection for more guidance.


Although, if you don't have the time nor the patience to learn rooting and roming I would suggest the first route. Keep in mind that the Gingerbread OTA is soon on its way to a stock phone near you (the one in your pocket!!!). And let me tell you. The difference between the build you're on and gingerbread is night and day. GB has phenomenal battery life, no lag, and is amazing.

Keep in mind as well. This is just my $0.02 and others will hopefully chime in and add theirs. But I've given the information. Now it's up to you. Take the blue pill and Tuesday you arrive home to find a new phone waiting for you (granted someone was there to sign for it) and you can go back to froyo and wait for gingerbread like everyone else. You take the red pill and you join in rootland and we will show you how far down the rootpath you can go.
 
^^^^Great advice! If you do try to fix things on your own, you can still put it back to stock and send it in should making some changes not fix it. I am concerned about the issue with hearing people. I'm wondering if that's a speaker issue. The issue with the severe lag and fast draining battery is most certainly an app that is malfunctioning. Keep in mind that the replacement phone you get is refurbished. Yeah, I know that they say that it has been factory reset and cleaned, but did they really get all of the poop off it from the person who dropped it in the toilet and sent it in for factory refurb? Just a thought. :)
 
Over the past few months I have been having problems with my Droid X, but it has come to the point where it is unbearable.

The first major problem is receiving calls or making calls. I could be in my home with my network extender, outside in a field with full 3g, or in San Francisco but half the time I make a call I cannot hear anyone on the other side. This happens at least once or twice a day and I have to pull the battery out and reinsert it in order to hear the other person on the call. They can hear me but I never hear anything.

The second major problem is the battery life. I cannot make it through a full day (8am-11pm) without having to charge at least once, even on minimal use. It seems to drain a lot faster when I am constantly driving around San Francisco, is it spending battery to switch between cell towers? I have WiFi, GPS, BT, all disabled. I am using only a few applications as well. The only thing that I know of which updates at set intervals, besides the standard Google applications, is the beautiful widgets weather which is once to update every few hours. I can go from 100% to 0% in less than three hours just playing games for about an hour and browsing the internet for about two hours, is this normal?

The third major problem is that the phone lags so much. I have reset the phone many times to the default settings and tried different applications or no applications but the problem always exists. Even with it running absolute stock with nothing else installed it will lag all the time, at least 5 times an hour. Every time it lags it can last up to a full minute where the phone is completely useless. This presents a major problem when I am working with time sensitive material or trying to text my boss or make an important call or collaborate with other students at my university.

Are there any known fixes for these problems? I tried searching for these problems and I couldn't find any solutions for these problems that actually work, although I have not searched for the lag issue. Thank you in advance.

Are you running all of the latest updates? I had a friend who was running 2.1 still and he thought the OTA announcement was just annoying Verizon ad trying to sell him more services! He complained about the same problems and I ran his upgrade and then the latest update a week later and he is very happy now.
 
The first major problem is receiving calls or making calls. I could be in my home with my network extender, outside in a field with full 3g, or in San Francisco but half the time I make a call I cannot hear anyone on the other side. This happens at least once or twice a day and I have to pull the battery out and reinsert it in order to hear the other person on the call. They can hear me but I never hear anything.

THAT sounds like a programming issue...i believe its *228...dial that on your phone...

The second major problem is the battery life. I cannot make it through a full day (8am-11pm) without having to charge at least once, even on minimal use. It seems to drain a lot faster when I am constantly driving around San Francisco, is it spending battery to switch between cell towers? I have WiFi, GPS, BT, all disabled. I am using only a few applications as well. The only thing that I know of which updates at set intervals, besides the standard Google applications, is the beautiful widgets weather which is once to update every few hours. I can go from 100% to 0% in less than three hours just playing games for about an hour and browsing the internet for about two hours, is this normal?

As for it draining more when you're driving...its not so much switching towers that is causing a problem, but if you go in and out of areas where you either A. Don't have service at all or B. Drop 3G service...when your phone doesn't have service, or drops 3G service it is going to constantly be searching to find service...it uses MUCH more battery searching for service then it does once its connected...

as for burning through the batter in 3 hours...that isn't NORMAL...but if you're litterally playing games for a full hour....and your actually browsing for a full 2 hours (meaning your screen is actually on for 3 hours) then yeah its going to chew through a bunch of battery...

what i want you to do is download an app called Spare Parts from the market...once you install it...you're going to keep an eye on "Battery History" it gives you a different break down of what is using your battery, and how/when/how long difference services are running...

its quite possible that you've got a "rouge app" that is causing your phone to stay awake or something of the sort...

The third major problem is that the phone lags so much. I have reset the phone many times to the default settings and tried different applications or no applications but the problem always exists. Even with it running absolute stock with nothing else installed it will lag all the time, at least 5 times an hour. Every time it lags it can last up to a full minute where the phone is completely useless. This presents a major problem when I am working with time sensitive material or trying to text my boss or make an important call or collaborate with other students at my university.

two apps we could try out here that might be able to lock down a problem...

I really like an app called "Android System Info" it gives you all sorts of breakdowns as to what services are running...how much CPU they are using...how much memory they are using...etc...you can look at this to see if you've got apps using too much memory...

second app worth looking at here is Watchdog....it will monitor your CPU usage and tell you if anything gets really high...something could be spiking and causing your CPU to lag because its using 100% CPU...

Are there any known fixes for these problems? I tried searching for these problems and I couldn't find any solutions for these problems that actually work, although I have not searched for the lag issue. Thank you in advance.
you probably won't find "fixes" for these issues because they are not common...and something is wrong...but there are ways to go about trying to narrow down things...

**also*** you say you've reset things to default settings...does that mean you have done a data wipe/factory reset from the recovery menu before??...

The second option I propose is to learn about the rooting process so you can ditch that stock ROM that is horrible and get on something better. You can join us in the Root subsection for more guidance.

this is really good advice...BUT i would suggest trying to see why its running so poorly in stock configuration first...while we all like to poke fun at the stock ROM for being crap...and it is not great by any stretch...but it shouldn't run like the OP is describing...and that could be caused by an actual problem with the phone that won't be fixed by flashing a custom ROM...there are also a lot of things that some people like about Blur that most ROMS will remove from the phone altogether...
 
The OP could also have an inordinate amount of downloaded apps on his/her phone, which could lead to lag and possible app conflict.

What's inordinate? Well, when I ran Titanium Backup yesterday, it reported that I currently have 563 apps. Whether that figure includes all the little blur apps Moto generally loads is anyone's guess. But I do not experience any lag whatsoever. And this is on Froyo - I reverted back from GB. It's rooted but I haven't uninstalled any of the bloatware.
 
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