Motorola Droid News

the SMS/Text notification icon/ringtone and flashing light are great. But I HATE that the Droid displays scrolling text of the text message sender followed by the actual text of the message. I was recently letting a friend use my internet browser and a moderately embarrassing text from my wife displayed up there and I could see a million horrible situations arising. Even when my phone is locked I believe the scrolling text notifications are visible to anyone holding the phone. NOT GOOD.

How do i turn off just the scrolling text?

every time i download some ringtone in an mp3 file it goes to my music.. can you keep downloaded ringtones out of there?

Today marked an exceptional day for battery performance with my droid. Here are the stats…

Stby 23%
Display 21%
Voice 18%
Idle 16%
Bluetooth 5%
system stuff 5%
Twitter 4%
OS 2%
Swype 2%
shopper 2%

Running Bugless Beast v0.4 with the BB stock Kernel, no OC, no custom theme
5 widgets
FB 4 hour refresh
Twitter 5 minute refresh
2 Gmail accounts with four other linked email accounts
Auto screen from power control widget
Bluetooth and Sync all day:icon_ banana:
Launcher Pro plus no animated wallpaper
I forward my work phone to my droid and took numerous calls all day
sent 10-15 texts and IM’s
no web surfing today.
no ringtone and phone on vibrate for phone calls, all other notifications are off and only show up in the notification bar.

No here’s the numbers. After all the above I was on 20%. Total time since last charge was 18 hours and 30 minutes.

I’m just ecstatic about the battery performance today. I hope it stays this way. It’s nice to be able to use most of the phone’s features and not have to recharge at work. I as many other took exception to the droid’s battery life when I first got it. I hate having an awesome phone with screen brightness turned all the way down and most features turned off to conserve juice.

I haven’t narrowed down the item that may have helped this. Is it launcher pro plus with froyo? BB with a theme was a battery hogg. I dropped the theme and picked up some battery performance. But this was outstanding. yesterday was pretty impressive also. I’m really starting to second guess buying the Droid X now and wait (while still using my droid) for the LTE phones.

Please post other success stories and potential tweaks to maximize battery performance.

How do I do a custom ringtone for a contact??? I can’t figure this one out.

I am this close to throwing my Droid against the wall. I hope someone can help.

My GMail will not receive e-mails unless I manually refresh once the app is open. Believe it or not, I looked around on this board to see if I could find some help.

Yes: The phone is synched with my account.
Yes: I went in and cleared the data/cache (although my phone didn’t have cache for GMail).
Yes: I have rebooted numerous times as well as pulled the battery out.

None of these has options has made it work.

As I am writing "Test" e-mails to myself, I do not get a notification ring or anything appearing in my status bar. Again, I checked off to receive notifications, my phone is not on silent, and there is a ringtone that is selected to play.

HELP PLEASE. I paid too much money for this phone to have it in pieces with a hole in the wall.

I got rid of my pager. I now get pages as text messages sent to my droid. Sometimes I miss the txt notification so I am looking for a txt or email ringtone that is continuous and doesnt stop until it is silenced manually, or that stops after a specified length of time (say 1 minute), much like the alarm clock notification that needs to be manually stopped. If I could have that notofocation option for txt messaging or email and select it for a specific contact I would be a happier droider.

Anybody have a suggestion?

I have noticed that on many occasions my phone rings with the standard ringtone even though I have a custom one set for the person calling. I don’t know why this is happening. Has anyone had the same experience? Any fixes?

TIA

:motdroidhoriz: OK so I have my motorola Droid and I was wondering if i can set a different notification tone for my contacts when they text me??? Please help! It’s just weird if I have only one txt ringtone for all txt msgs. dancedroid

Hello everyone,

I’ve got a text message with a link for a ringtone, and when I click on the link, it just plays the song. How do I save the link or download the file? I tried hitting the menu button both when the text message is open & when the song is playing, but neither seem to offer a download option…

I tried searching in here for the answer, and actually found someone ask the same question referencing the same site, but I didn’t see a reply. I think the question got lost since it was a pretty long thread…

Any help is appreciated…=)

Hey guys. when i had the Eris it had a nice ringtone trimmer were you could select in the song the start and finsh. anything like that for the Moto Droid?