Help! Installed update on Eris and now phone doesn't work

I installed the update on my eris and I am having problems. When I tap on phone, I get a message stating "Sorry! The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. Force close". So, now that I have this update installed I can't use my phone as a phone?!?!?!?! Is anyone else having this problem?

Also, several other messages popped up when the phone turned on telling me various processes were not able to open and needed to force close.

I am so tempted to return this phone and just go back to my simple phone that allowed me to make phone calls as a phone should do.

 

I called Verizon and spent an hour and a half on the phone. The lady told me there must have been some kind of error during the installation, though had no idea what it could have been. I had to do a hard reset, which would lose all of my contacts and pictures. I had not backed up anything. Luckily, when we finally got the phone activated again, the contacts were intact. Apparently, because I had set up a google account, everything had been synced with google without me doing anything else. The contacts and pictures came back.

Anyway, the lesson learned is to back up my stuff if I want it back on my phone.

I hope no one else has the problems I ran into. It was very frustrating not being able to use my phone as a simple phone.

 

Since the update on Saturday, I have had to do a hard reset on my phone four times (four times in four days). I get force close messages, including one when I go to the phone. It prevents me from being able to make phone calls. Guess I am the only one experiencing this problem. I am taking the phone in for an exchange today and trying again.

Are there any apps that I could be putting on my phone that are known to cause this problem?

 

I have advanced task killer, which I do use to kill apps. I took my phone in and exchanged if for another so as to avoid having to do a fourth hard reset after spending hours customizing my phone. I spent the weekend getting my phone the way I wanted it and decided to switch the slot index. I did this, the phone rebooted, and when it came on I had the same error messages. I am am knocked off of service and my phone does not allow me to make phone calls. I can still navigate around some apps (thank goodness, so I could use astro to back up my apps), but the phone is useless. I have just about had it with the Eris and I am considering going back to my old phone.

 

I am with you. I just went and got my third phone today. I am afraid to download the update, but I don't know if I can stand the constant reminders I have an update available. I am about to the point I hate this phone. I wonder if there is something I am doing wrong. I have downloaded quite a few apps from the market. Is there a limit to how many apps I can put on? I put an antivirus app on it. Could that cause problems? I switched the slot index and a few of the support people said maybe that is what caused the problem (but they didn't know what the slot index is.) I had this problem before I changed the slot index. And anyway, the phone should still work if I make a change like that.

I am beyond frustrated. Are there any other phones (besides the Droid) from Verizon that allow you such a wide selection of apps?