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Help Both our phones take 2-5 minutes to dial!

My wife and I both have the original Droid X, purchased in late 2010. They are both up-to-date with the latest that Verizon has supplied. Mine is rooted (so I could uninstall bloatware and backup my stuff), hers is not.

They both have the same problem: About 50% of the time, the time between pressing the green "call" button after dialing a number, and when the phone actually places the call, if between two to five minutes.

This is significantly frustrating. The problem has developed slowly, but has been getting worse and worse over time. I plan ahead now, if I want to make a call, and I can do a bunch of stuff while the phone is just sitting there pondering its task.

If you get anxious, and try to dial again while it's waiting, it doesn't help. It is waiting for something, I don't know what. It will queue up that dial as well, and then try to merge the calls when it finally gets around to doing to job. I've had it try to dial and merge five calls to my wife, all at once.

I've googled around, and have not found anything useful other than "factory reset". My phone is rooted, I am technologically savvy, is there anything we can do to try and diagnose the problem?
 
Sure, here's all the info:

System version: 4.5.621.MB810.Verizon.en.US
Model number: DROIDX
Android version: 2.3.4
Baseband version: BP_C_01.09.15P
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9-g1282440 mcbk83@il93lnxdroid08 #1
Build number: 4.5.1_57_DX8-51
ERI version: 5
PRL version: 53096

Since both my phone and my wife's are experiencing the problem, I would assume that it would have been more widespread, and known. Since it isn't... hmm, maybe it's something that both phones have in common, some app that is installed on both.

The first one that comes to mind is seepu.... maybe I'll take that off and see if it solves it.
 
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Sure, here's all the info:

System version: 4.5.621.MB810.Verizon.en.US
Model number: DROIDX
Android version: 2.3.4
Baseband version: BP_C_01.09.15P
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9-g1282440 mcbk83@il93lnxdroid08 #1
Build number: 4.5.1_57_DX8-51
ERI version: 5
PRL version: 53096

Since both my phone and my wife's are experiencing the problem, I would assume that it would have been more widespread, and known. Since it isn't... hmm, maybe it's something that both phones have in common, some app that is installed on both.

The first one that comes to mind is seepu.... maybe I'll take that off and see if it solves it.

All of these details are the same for me with the exception of the PRL Version. Mine is 53184.

I to experience the lag when it comes to the phone actually making the call. Has anyone solved this issue? :(
 
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So I uninstalled a bunch of apps, and removed all the widgets, removed several screens (we're both using ADW). The phone is now responding better, but the delay in dialing a number is still here. It doesn't matter how the number is dialed, either.

This happens *sometimes*, not all the time:
When I hit the green telephone button to dial something, it just sits for a couple of minutes, before it makes the call. If you try to make another call in that time period (by, say, tapping the green button again, thinking you hadn't hit it right the first time), it will queue up another call. Then, when whatever is blocking the operation releases, all the calls you made go through at once, and the phone attempts to merge them together.

Anyone else having this problem?
 
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I had exactly the same problem verizon was unable to fix it I believe your problem is with verizon's update of the software version. I just switched to Galaxy s4, verizon just did an upgrade to a new software package and it again goofed with my phone no more updates for me. Check out XDA developers online they may have help in their forums. If you are rooted and can reinstall your software to the version to the one from new at the factory this may help. Good Luck
 
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I have been experiencing this exact problem for 3 or 4 months -- I'm on 2.3.4.
After working with Verizon tech support, they recommended I take it into the store to reload the O/S.

The store staff just had me perform a factory reset. I don't know if this reloads the O/S, but when I was done, the phone was still at 2.3.4. I'm in the process of getting my apps back, but the dialing delay still occurs intermittently.

Does anyone know the cause and/or resolution of this issue?
And, does this occur on other phones? Is this a Verizon problem? I'm ready to replace the phone, but don't want to have the same problem again.
 
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