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  1. J

    Please help: Battery draining all of a sudden

    I got my Eris aroudn the end of Novemeber or early Dec. Conditioned the battery as I followed on here. Now, the past two full charges this weekend haven't lasted at all. Battery draining super fast. I easily get 1 1/2-2 days on full charge, minimal phone useage/text/basic net. Full charge this...
  2. J

    Apps that prevent phone from sleeping?

    As I continue to downlaod and try new apps, I notice that some of the permissions that some of them have are/is: "Prevent phone from sleeping". I didn't think much about it, but after conditioning my phone...for a few days I was getting around 11% awake time, now after a few of these apps...
  3. J

    Save picture from message?

    I know I did this, but for the life of me cannot do it again! I received text with picture I want to keep.transfer to photo album...I click on the picture in the message/text and it pops up which program to use, default or astro...I try both, astro force closes and default one loads it, but no...
  4. J

    Picasa or Flickr?

    I don't do lots of pics, but do take some I'd like to keep of my baby and such. So I'll likely be deleting pictures from time-to-time to keep the Eris running clean, so I want to start uploading to a photo hosting site for safe keeping. I have only and ever used Photobucket, but for the Eris...
  5. J

    Defrag or clean? How to? apps?

    I am nearing close to 50 apps and notice a little more lag and load time on some things. Is there a way to clean things up like disk cleanup, etc? I only have around 30 pictures, now that is little green circle takes awhile to load all things. I've only had it a week, so lots of the freebie...
  6. J

    Commerical Search Function?

    The latest commercial (for the mto though I guess) where they are talking about search for "HUMAN" and it can search the web, contacts, songs, etc with just that one search...sure you know what commercial I mean... Well, how do I do that!? When I try google search it is just the web-based...
  7. J

    Bose Dock work?

    Any clue if this owuld work for the Eris? Bose SoundDock designed for Ipod or mp3 devices Bose® - SoundDock® Series II Digital Music System for Apple® iPod® - Silver - SOUNDDOCK
  8. J

    Newbie to Bluetooth ?'s

    So, no clue how to use bluetooth...I understand it sorta....:o What I want to do... Copy contacts, pics, or whatnot from my Eris and bluetooth them to my wife's Blackberry. Easy? Can you step me through it please? Thanks so much!
  9. J

    End/Power button = standby?

    First of all, love this place! Been figuring out so many things:D Ok, the physical key that is the end/power button...a quick press shuts the screen off and it is seemingly off...is this standby then or does the phone have to standby itself? I ask because of this exceprt from the manual END/...
  10. J

    Market and paying $... Safe?

    Whew, first day in with Eris! Been reading and reading on here and messing with the phone, pretty neat coming of a BB. Really newbie ?, but after installing some useful and stupid free apps, there are a few paid apps I'd like to purchse. You just hit purchase/buy and fill out all your CC info on...
  11. J

    Gmail not coming through (it was), and sync on?

    My gmail was coming in pretty fast, now today it isn't. I have to manually refresh it now. Maybe I changed something, if so can you direct me where I need to check please? They are not showing up in my notification nar at this time (after refresh) either. I really like that bar too! Also, the...