I HATE My Droid 2, but I Can't Live Without It!

BarryHalls · September 17th, 2011, 08:31 PM

First of all /scream . . .(imagine a scream of rage). . .

OK, now I've had this thing since march and am TOTALLY addicted to what this phone does for me FOR FREE! BUT, just keeping it from locking up is a constant battle with task kille and autostart apps, and YES i have removed everything I can live without that I CAN remove but there are a half dozen apps that CAME on the phone that start RANDOMLY that I have NEVER even opened and don't care to ever use, they just take up my RAM!!!!!

JUST as annoying is that this thing has a mind TOTALLY of it's own. When I type and it inserts random whole words, moves my cursor and punctuation, and backspaces in the wrong direction!! Yes, I have ALL of the autocorrect stuff off. It used to still highlight the mispelled words, and I love thatm but the update broke that.

My friends all have droids and don't have ANY complaints, 2 of them are Rooted/hacked, and my wife has a $250 Offbrand android tablet with the same processor specs and 2x the RAM with 0matching [sic inserted word] problems ( and this thing was 500!). I SWEAR I'm ready to tell VZW to shove this phone and their contract and just lug that tablet around and find wifi to make all of my calls because I KNOW it would be less of a PITA!!

SO, is Verizon just the new AOL and they have FUBARd my operating system on what SHOULD be a great product?

HALP!

biggiesmalls657 · September 18th, 2011, 01:02 AM

There is a fix to stop it from entering whole words. In settings > language and keyboard

BarryHalls · September 18th, 2011, 07:42 AM

I suppose that was next word suggestuin? I have everything in that sectio deselected except show suggestions, voice to text, and highly mispelled words and it doesn't highlight mispelled words or give me a record voice option..

juliesdroidsyn · September 18th, 2011, 10:19 AM

I've been a verizon customer for quite some time. Had a droid1, and never really had any issues. I can't say that it never locked up in the 2 years I had it, but it certainly wasn't often.

Now I have a Droid3 (arguably the most awesome phone on the planet!)
I've had it for a couple of months now, and it hasn't locked up on me yet.

My husband (still with his Droid1) will occasionally have more problems, but I am personally convinced that it is because he will NEVER reboot the thing. When he tells me he is having a problem, I ask him... when was the last time you shut it off/turned it back on??? usually the answer is over a week...

I change batteries usually once a day or every other day, and swap them out since I have an external battery charger, so my phone is shut down/restarted every day or at the very least every other day.

I have a task-killer app, but I don't use it, and don't have it set to "auto-kill" anything.

The Droid2 was supposed to be a really awesome phone... and for Verizon? If you get a bad tech support rep; hang up (preferably while you are in the middle of a sentence so as not to appear rude...

) and call back for another...

Verizon is expensive, very "big brother", however they have been very competent, their coverage rocks, and they have been reasonable with me a couple of times when I've made somewhat unreasonable requests... I compare this to my experiences with AT&T, Cingular... ("Please Kill Me Now" is what comes to mind when I think of them...)

All that said; you may simply have a defective unit, or need to restart it once a day.

If that doesn't work, see if they'll trade it out, and if not; if you have insurance... God forbid that something would happen to your Droid2, but if it ever did, you could perhaps get a relatively cheap replacement Droid2.

Or... perhaps just upgrade to a Droid3. I can't say enough about how much I love this phone...

Good Luck!

BarryHalls · September 18th, 2011, 03:36 PM

I think I just need more RAM and processor, but when I got mine it had the most of both. Does D3 have a full KB? That is a MUST for my size 13 Fingers. . .

I also suspect that my firmware/OS is corrupt/damaged.

I know ONE other person with the D2 and she has LESS availabe RAM than I do, but 0 problems.

silverfang77 · September 18th, 2011, 03:38 PM

The Gingerbread update is best upgraded from a plain vanilla Froyo installation. If you're feeling brave, SBF your phone back to Froyo 2.3.20, download Gingerbread and root via Droid 3 PC method.

BarryHalls · September 18th, 2011, 10:36 PM

I tthink I followed that, but I don't want to root it and lose the verizon support, not that they have been any help, but if I brick it, they won't replace it.

biggiesmalls657 · September 18th, 2011, 11:24 PM

Thats why you break it if you have insurance. Plus theres sbfing as well.

VoidedSaint · September 19th, 2011, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BarryHalls

I tthink I followed that, but I don't want to root it and lose the verizon support, not that they have been any help, but if I brick it, they won't replace it.

why not just upgrade to the droid3????

JDunc · September 19th, 2011, 10:18 AM

Task killer is hurting you more than helping. Try a AOSP ROM they run a lot smoother than stock ROMs.

BarryHalls · September 21st, 2011, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voidedsaint

why not just upgrade to the droid3????

$500

BarryHalls · September 21st, 2011, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDunc

Task killer is hurting you more than helping. Try a AOSP ROM they run a lot smoother than stock ROMs.

Got a link for that? I didn't find it in market.

On a side not. It's like I have some memory leaks. Available meory goes down over time whether I use it or not.

I'm really pissed because I was banking on the update to fix these things but it made everything worse.

JDunc · September 22nd, 2011, 10:58 AM

Android is made to kill tasks when memory is needed. It has it's own built in "task killer." As far a link for AOSP ROMs check out the All Things Root thread on how to flash ROMs. There is a link of ROMs here. ->http://androidforums.com/droid-2-all-things-root/388540-latest-active-d2-roms-9-14-11-a.html