I am running a Droid X that is just over a year old and the OS is the stock OTA Gingerbread. The phone is not rooted. Recently I have had problems with the phone and I am trying to figure out if the hardware is failing or if it is a software issue.
The phone would frequently restart when I selected it to power down. More seriously, I carry the phone in a belt side case with a velcro flap and I would frequently discover that it had crashed, so I would not be getting calls that came in, requiring a battery pull to restart it. Thinking it might be an overloaded memory problem, I removed a number of apps that sat in memory so that there was plenty of memory available. That didn't resolve the problems so I did a factory reset and, so far, the phone seems OK.
Do Android phones just develop these problems, requiring factory resets from time to time, or could something else be going on? Thanks in advance for the help.
The phone would frequently restart when I selected it to power down. More seriously, I carry the phone in a belt side case with a velcro flap and I would frequently discover that it had crashed, so I would not be getting calls that came in, requiring a battery pull to restart it. Thinking it might be an overloaded memory problem, I removed a number of apps that sat in memory so that there was plenty of memory available. That didn't resolve the problems so I did a factory reset and, so far, the phone seems OK.
Do Android phones just develop these problems, requiring factory resets from time to time, or could something else be going on? Thanks in advance for the help.
