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    Help replacement battery incompatibility issue.

    My wife just ordered a replacement battery for her rezound. At first glance it appears identical, but wouldn't seat in the battery compartment. I checked and noticed the tabs in the bottom corner are slightly different shapes. Upon further inspection, I see that the battery voltage is 3.7...
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    USB on the go mass storage issues fixed?

    Please Excuse The Weird Capitalization And Spacing, It's Glitch Of My Browser/Keyboard Combo On My RAZR. I've Been Reading Up On The Issues Associated With USB OTG And Mass Storage OnThe Nexus 7 when Running Android 4.3. I StoppedIn Here For A FirstHand Account, But Noticed No Threads On The...
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    Help wifi cuts in and out randomly after JB

    My wifi started cutting in and out randomly after the JB update. I first noticed it when I was in my kitchen. The signal is weak there and I figured the update must have turned down the gain on the Wifi antenna to save battery, annoying but understandable. However, it's don't it several...
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    Help Can't view all photos at once after Jelly Bean

    I know this is minor compared to other issues ... but it's a big annoyance for me. On ICS the gallery displayed on the picture on my phone in one long list. I liked this. Jelly Bean now sorts them into "Albums". the problem is that the albums are folders, or arbitrary time frames. These are...
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    Help Icons for apps on the SD card don't load

    Anyone else experienced this? On bootup all my apps that are on the SD card that have homescreen shortcuts come up as the default blue icon with the gear on it. They will onyl show up if something causes the launcher to crash (and therefore) reload. Doesn't affect anything ... but annoys...
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    Help calendar app deleting new event

    For at least a month now my razr has been deleting new calendar (google calendar set to sync) events I add a few seconds after I add them. I honestly don't recall if it has been doing this since new as I sometimes use the web interface instead and may have added all the events that "stuck" from...
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    Swype update?

    My wife just got an update for Swype today on her rezound. The version number it's one better than the version that comes on the RAZR. Anyone know how we might go about updating steeper since it's preinstalled on the RAZR? Just don't want to create any conflicts.
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    Help Background data turns off by itself.

    My background data turns off by itself on a regular basis. I often don't realise this until outlook on my commputer has emails that haven't shown up on the phone. I have no smart actions that affect background data ... and I NEVER turn it off myself. What gives here? Anyone else had this issue?
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    Help Unusual (impossible) smart action behavior

    I have something happening with a smart action I've set up that should not be possible. I have one action that behaves properly; When the head phone jack in engaged and charging on AC, turn off WIFI and launch Pandora. This action has been set for about and month and a half and works...
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    Help White notification LED

    My RAZR has been a bit irratic this morning. I've had to reset it twice. In any case, the last time I booted up, after the interfaces loaded I was getting a blinking white notification LED. It blinked about 3 times, 5 seconds appart, and then stopped. I've tried looking this up but the only...
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    Where can we suggest new smart actions and triggers?

    There are some conspicuously absent tiggers and actions for smart actions I want to suggest to motorola. For instance I could really use a trigger for text message received. Trigger on calander event or status. Actions for Media volume instead of just ringer would be helpfull. Etc. etc. etc...
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    Help How to update PRL with a sim card.

    This is my first phone with any type of SIM card. I'm used to being able to do an over the air PRL update with *228 but I get the follow message when I try that: A verizon Wireless SIM card has activated your service and updated your phone's roaming capabilities. Does this mean that one...
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    How to access the EPST menu on Droid RAZR

    Anyone know how this is done? On my HTC desire you just dialed ##778# but that does nothing on the RAZR.
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    Help Any way to force moto browser NOT to use mobile view of websites?

    My old HTC phone had a setting in the browser or allow or disallow pages to display in Mobile view. My general opinion is that mobile view is worthless and set it to only show full webpages. Any way to do this with the moto browser? I know i can download alternate browsers ... but I hate...
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    Media shareing

    I sort of hijacked a thread below, and while my message was on topic it has not gotten much responce. I thought perhaps I should start my own thread instead. I've been monkeying with trying to get the DLNA server on the phone to work. It was pointed out to me that from the music player...
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    problem with dual accounts and new market

    Thus question may have been asked and answered but I can't sort out all the old post about changing your logon account with old market that come up in the search. My problem is that I have two gmail accounts. One is personal, the other is university issued. Prior to the market update only...
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    Wrong location on home wifi

    I'm sure this has been asked and asnwered ... but still, this is the best place I know to ask this type of quesiton. I recently moved a long distance (over 1200 miles) and set my home network back up only to find that as soon as my phone (HTC Desire) connects to it I will revert to my previous...
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    Got Netflix Streaming

    For any that don't (and are interested) Netflix now supports streaming on Android. Unfortunately Netflix has gone the route of only allowing the app on hand sets it has specifically tested. However I found the .apk online and installed, updated, and low and behold I can now stream. All this...
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    How to extract PRL from a non-rooted CDMA desire?

    I need some help here. I got a warrenty replacement phone with the wrong PRL. I've called my companies tech support several times and I don't seem to be able to get the correct PRL over the air (either by active download or by push). The result is I'm constantly in roam mode, and although I'm...
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    Help All contacts from google show up in people even when "Show auto Gmail contacts" is unchecked

    This was not a problem on my previous Desire but my wife and I just got warrenty replacments. Previously only contacts in the My Contacts folder and not the other contacts folder showed up on sync. Those phones were running 2.1 update 1. The new phones have 2.2 (hurray) but seem to classify...
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    Help Can't get market app to update

    I seem to have caused a problem with my market app. and caused it to revert to the previous market. My phone is an Alltel branded, non-rooted, 2.1 update 1, regular desire. I wanted to clear me search history in the market app. Yesterday, at the suggestion of many people online, I cleared...
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    Need calendar App. similar to HTC calendar app.

    My boss noticed the HTC calendar app on my desire and likes it better than his stock google calendar app. (on his LG vortex). Anyone know of a calendar app in the market with similar appearance to the HTC one, or alternatively if there is way to download the HTC one (might also be useful to me...
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    "preceding msg modified, Media objects were removed"

    Not sure the best location for this message ... but here it is. I searched the forums and got a couple hits with the phrase, but no resolution. I get the message, "preceding msg modified, Media objects were removed", when my brother in law sends me a long message (greater than 160 chars)...
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    App Market reviews name

    Where in the world is the name used for the app reviews stored? I figure it could be in the phone or on google. I just can't figure it out. I just posted my first app review to the market and the name it posted under is my name from german class in high school. I haven't used that handle for...
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    Help Moisture Indicator Color

    Does anyone know for the Desire specifically where and what color the moisture indicators should be? I can't find one on the phone body anywhere. There appears to be one on the edge of the battery right next too the contacts. I'm confused though as I though these were typically white and...