Motorola Droid News

ok i know i posted threads here explaining my problems but i cant seem to get a definite answer. So i setup yahoo on my phone and changed the setting manually and the notifications is turned on and everything. The problem is that it doesnt notify me of when i get new emails the only way i can tell if i got new emails is by going into the email and checking and then i see i got a bunch of new emails. If i take the battery out and turn it back on then it shows me i got new emails but after that it doesnt notify me. Im wondering if its my phone or what i mean i hear some ppl say yahoo works fine on their phones and others are having diff problems so im confused if its my phone or what. Im also wondering with this new update coming out will if fix this problem im having? I just want to know if its my phone thats messed up or is it all the droids having problems?

my girlfriend just got a droid today..

the box is completely different than mine which was a long skinny one. i bought mine back in early december. hers was boxed in a short, wider box. first off her keyboard is now completely flat and mines bubbled. also her screen is a lot brighter than mine is and i had them both set to auto brightness. was holding hers right next to mine and mine looks washed out and dull while hers is really nice and bright.

kinda pissed, i like the more vibrant screen

oh and my search key on bottom row is white, the others are an off white..

anyone notice slight differences in droids as the build dates increase? 2 of my friends just got droids at work and im going to compare them to mine as well. also i would have never noticed these differences unless i hold them side by side

I have read about the Task Killer App, but have also read that it seems to be screwing up some member’s Droids. If I don’t download a task killer app, how do I shut an app down manually? Is there a way? I don’t want to bog down the battery with a bunch of open apps.

Okay – now that the Droid prices have dropped so much, and with deductibles about $90.00, why are we still paying for insurance? Wouldn’t be be better off just purchasing a new phone off walmart.com or one of these places selling the phones for under fifty bucks? Or are these prices ONLY with plan renewal or new plan? I mean – we are paying the price of a new phone in just five months or less premiums, forgetting the deductible.

Any thoughts? cuskit

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Folks,
First time poster here, greatly in need of help. I also posted in the Newbie section — I think I was supposed to go there first, but thought people here might be more likely to be able to help.
Pardon in advance for how long this is.
After a couple of months of people with Iphones telling me not to get a Droid, I made the plunge 11 days ago. Love the phone. Except for one thing, which I hope folks may have suggestions on.
I had held off till three people at work showed me their Droids who were indeed able to easily synch corporate Outlook Exchange contacts, calendar, and email.
I tried to synch my corporate Outlook Exchange, and can get contacts and calendar to synch, but when it starts to go to email, I get a message can’t connect to server. Have removed account, removed battery, re-added account, about 10 times, with no luck. At other times I get other error messages when I try to refresh, etc. (Came through once after several days for 24 hours, was wonderful, then vanished, never to return again despite many tries.)
By the way, none of those three people at my company, nor I, bought the $45 package, and no one of the many Verizon people I have spoken to mentioned it.
I also have a work-supplied Blackberry on the outlook exchange account. The other three work colleagues do not. I thought that might be it, so tried putting my email account onto the one colleague’s phone. No go.
Talked with Verizon support, then Motoroloa support, then for an hour with a very nice and knowledgable Motorola level II support. She had no ideas and was surprised. She sent the IT Department necessary server settings, which our IT checked, and they all looked all fine.
Our IT people called our Blackberry folks, and they did not know if there were any interference issues with the Blackberry server and a Droid.
The Motorola level II support rep though that if the company servers were set appropriately (which they are), it is likely either a problem with the phone, or a problem with the Blackberry.
Any ideas or experience? I couldn’t find anything on the forum, though maybe I missed something.
I may need to return the phone and get an Htc. Or, I wonder if Verizon would let me return this Droid and try another?
I only have two days to decide on the phone return or not, so any advice is greatly appreciated.
Sorry this so long. Thanks much,
Scott

I love my droid as much as the next guy but with the rumors of the Nexus One and HTC Incredible’s releases in the coming month(s), will this leave our beloved Droids in the dust?

Last month I got a DROID which I at first found to be cool but odd to use.. I have since fallen in love with it, aside from two things.

1. I Have now had two different moto droids and a third is on it’s wa because the lock button stops working. I press and hold it and can power down the phone but a simple tap to lock the screen doesn’t work. it acts as if it doesn’t recognize it. Has anyone else heard of this? When I has a problem with the first one VZW hadn’t heard of it but when I went to talk to them about the second one having the same issue they said a fix is on the way, it won’t be in the 2.1 update but will be very shortly after. This drives me nuts because I use BT and when ever I put the phone in its holster or my pocket I hang up on people or transfer from BT to the handset….

2. I absolutely HATE that when I end a call it takes me to the darn call log screen or the contacts screen. I used to have an app that took me to the home screen upon pressing end, but had to do a factory reset which wiped out all my apps (for the lock issue) and cannot remember the name of it… can anyone help me out with this?

Thank you in advance!

Had it not been for the forum I would have likely tossed the droid and stuck with my "dumb" phone, I’m hoping I can again be bailed out by you guys!

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Hi guys, hope you are all enjoying your Droids. I have a few questions and will preface this to say that I’m not a hater and hoping that my problems are due to some defect or setup problem. I had an iPhone and Blackberry before this, long time Treo user. Perhaps some can share experiences.

1) Keyboard – It sucks badly, mind numbing design (except for gamers). We knew what it was coming in but I found out that using a case (especially Verizon’s stock) makes typing impossible. This is because the small amount of space on the top between the screen and top rows of the keyboard are totally necessary to reach those keys. Is there any case that is thinner and more forgiving in that area?

2) Pop mail does not work reliably to pull based upon time. I set it to pull from my server and it did a few times. Now I get tons of yellow "error" messages that are unexplained. When I go into the email account and it checks email, more often than not it will then pull the email without an error.

3) Email is poorly done. Is there a replacement email application? My problems are as follows: (a) Like the iPhone, every time you just go into a mailbox to review mail the damn phone checks for new mail. This will kill your battery and, at least on an iphone, there is no manual way to turn this off or set it. Is there one on the Droid? (b) Using the keyboard means losing the back and forth arrows in email – what the…? (c) I can’t seem to put in signatures for POP email but, worse, there is no bcc to myself if I send email from these accounts. (d) How do you get it to download full emails and pics? I travel out of range a lot and just want the phone to download all email from all accounts and get the contents of the email for offline viewing.

4) How do you auto quit applications or switch between them? It’s maddening that apps will stay open forever or even run multiple copies. How can you see what apps are running and easily switch, e.g. on the blackberry you hit a key and can cycle through all the apps. More importantly, how can you quit an app? There is no exit/quit on most of the apps I had.

5) How can you backup the phone? I have not found any way to backup my apps and the data. I looked at the Palm Pre and I wonder if this is the same maniacal obsession with "the cloud" that is there. If you have a to do application that doesn’t sync to a wireless or web based app, I can’t find a way to backup your applications you downloaded and the data that was in that application. Am I missing something? On the Palm this is a HUGE hole.

6) How do you set the LED light to do alerts? Isn’t that what it is there for, e.g. blink when you have new voice mail messages, etc.

7) Is there an app to condense space between icons? It’s almost as bad as working on a blackberry. You have 12 icons on the front screen. If you reduced the vertical space you could easily fit another row. How about the left right screens? There seems no way to nicely organize all your apps other than these ‘favorite’ areas as in the big repository it’s all the apps thrown in – and you can’t even make stuff invisible that you won’t use like "corporate email" or the like.

We have outlook on our PCs, not exchange. We have a LOT of offline emailing where we travel with netbooks and Outlook is great to read and reply to email, sent when you have a connection. I can’t find any easy way to sync Outlook contacts and calendar information, including notes and to dos. I downloaded Companionlink and it’s a mess, IMHO. It doesn’t sync the calendar, only the contacts. Maybe I did something wrong but the only way I can see to even "sync" is to sync Outlook calendar to google and google to the phone. Contacts requires companionlink which is "ok" at best and then they have their own notes and memo app. VERY VERY lame.

9) I get too many errors com.google.android.phone

10) I’m worried about the slider mechanism wearing out – how are yours faring?

That’s a lot of text and hopefully some of you can take parts to help me through it. I want to like the Moto Droid but it has a lot of failings for such an expensive phone. The workings are clunky. As much as I dislike Apple and think the Palm will be gone soon, I think Android 2 and the Droid are a somewhat clunky embarrassment. Much of this feels awkward like old Windows Mobile but even less reliable. I hope I’m wrong and that you guys can help me remedy some of the challenges I’m having.