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OTA or V3: My Eris is...

OTA or V3 Users: My Eris is..


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I'm thinking that those annoyances may be addressed in a coming "MR2-like" update/upgrade at some time in the near future.

The Verizon tech I spoke with in person yesterday that swapped out my phone stated she had heard VZW was working on a patch to be released soon.

Every tech I've spoken with the last week has told me that the Eris update was a huge debacle...a patch must be imminent...they pissed off a lot of their customers with the 2.1 update! :eek:
 
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Well.. this is pretty much as I expected, so far anyway: about 96% of the poll respondents are either "bugless" or "bugged a little bit" by their OTA or v3 2.1

This means that a small percentage are dissatisfied, less than 5% at this point.

Over tens of thousands of Eris users, that 5% would add up to quite a group of disgruntled Verizon customers, though.


 
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Seriously the only thing that really bugs me is the speed, or lack thereof. Most of the time when you think your phone is "freaking out" or "bugging out", it's just that it's so slow you have to wait on it to do something, so you get impatient and tell it to do something else, then it doesn't respond, so you hit the home button, then all these commands pile up, the phone goes nuts, apps force close, and you end up having to reboot. The Eris is doing something the whole time trying to keep up, but you can't tell. I partially blame Android just because it's so young, but most of it is the speed of the Eris. If the Eris was faster, it would respond faster, you would demand less of it, and things would go a lot more smoothly. If you take the EXACT same operating system and put it on two different phones (one fast and one slow), it doesn't matter how buggy the OS really is, it would seem less buggy on the fast phone just because it's doing what you tell it to do. At least that's my experience, but again I haven't seen too many real bugs, just hiccups due to speed and response.

For example yesterday I had navigation going and I tried to call someone. It was a serious royal pain. I ended up accidentally hanging up on the guy and the navigation came to a crawl. It literally took like a minute for the phone to catch up to what I was telling it to do. It didn't ever do anything wrong, it just took forever. On the Incredible it would have all been nearly instant.
 
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The one thing I am consistently noticing has to do with Facebook integration with my People. When I view my people, sometimes their FB pic is there and sometimes not. Also, when I get a call from a FB contact, the picture is blurry, but when I call them, it's fine. Also, an icon appears next to a contact letting me know they've updated their status, but it hangs out WAY after I've checked their account.

None of this is a hindrance, but it is a bit annoying. Other than that, I'm happy. I love the navigation, voice recognition is surprisingly good for searches, and my phone seems a lot more responsive and the call clarity seems to have improved as well.
 
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V3 has died on me, my cursor reverts to the beginning and middle of sentences when I text and my dialer now freezes. The text issue occurs on both handcent and messages and I have avidly cleared call history and caches. The leak had been flawless until 4 days ago and everything started to slow down....root here I come
 
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V3 has died on me, my cursor reverts to the beginning and middle of sentences when I text and my dialer now freezes. The text issue occurs on both handcent and messages and I have avidly cleared call history and caches. The leak had been flawless until 4 days ago and everything started to slow down....root here I come

Most often a device running well and then suddenly deteriorating in performance has been affected by an application newly installed, or configured differently than before the problems.

I'd start turning things off, disabling or de-installing apps, etc, one at a time in an effort to isolate the rogue program or setting. I'd at the least start thinking back to the last change I'd made prior to the problems cropping up.
 
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Interesting poll results though; most of what I had been reading were complaints, bugs, etc. I guess if your phone is running perfectly, why would you need to post much?

Yup, this is me. I've put on all the leaks as they were released and only have had the Google sign in bug that came with V1. Other than that, no bugs at all. Any issues with my phone have been my fault and easily fixed. Call me lucky, I guess.
 
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Well, after about ten days, I'd say that it's mildly buggy. I restarted the phone the other day and noticed that it was noticeably faster after that, and still has not been all that laggy.

My only issues so far:

1. A few weirdnesses with People (and search people) app. This was why I restarted. I'd go into People, try to do something, and the app would restart itself. I think it was happening with the dialer as well.

2. This morning the phone was reporting Google sync errors, going into an endless, battery eating loop of constantly trying to sync. I manually shut down sync and restarted it, I restarted the phone - nothing helped. At first it was calendars that had the issue, but after that it was contacts. I finally turned off contact sync, blew away the data for contacts, and restarted the sync I have the phone in the charger now, so I don't know yet if it is happening again.

[edit - syncing now seems fine. It must have been a contacts sync collision or something. I did make one change on the phone yesterday.]

3. 50% without signal bug.

Otherwise, things are fine.

At this point, though, I am strongly considering rooting the phone. I've been doing some research and lurking in that forum and think that I'm ok with it. I won't get to it this week, probably.
 
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