I have a Moto Droid running BB4. I have experienced many of the charger related issues using the standard Verizon micro plugin, the desk dock, and the car dock. It would begin with icons vibrating when touched and the screen doing little shimmies between my home screens. I have done reboots, battery pulls (off and recently using the on method) and the problem would often clear up for several days.
Two weeks ago, my home button stopped working and on screen typing became impossible in a 1/4′ wide line that extends from the L in the Motorola logo to the Home button. To verify, I used a sketch program to draw over the entire screen. It left a blank area in the aforementioned area. I rebooted, did a clean reinstall of BB (without reinstalling any apps) only to have the exact same issue. Frustrated and assuming that it was almost certainly a hardware issue, I removed the battery and left it out over night. The phone worked fine the following day (well, it did, but is not now). A short trip out of town this weekend and it started happening again after being in the car dock for less than 30 minutes. (It had been in the car dock, home dock, etc. previously without issue that week so the car dock may have nothing to do with it.)
On screen typing is an exciting endeavor that requires the phone be changed to various orientations to be able to touch the necessary buttons. Recently, it has began to register the any key presses in the dead zone as random buttons to the left or right of the press (before nothing at all happened).
Is it time to take it to Verizon? Any suggestions or tests that might be helpful? Anyone having similar issues? Also, I am assuming that I need to restore the phone to stock android before taking it in even if it is a hardware issue but it would be nice if I didn’t have to.
Love my DROID except when I look at the screen on a bright clear day and see my reflection, and realize that it is this awareness that is really me. Here is an idea about how to solve this problem: (1) Place the DROID in a Motorol Multimedia Station and leave it there. (2) Add a second wireless telephone that does not have the glare problem the DROID has and forward phone calls to it. I feel the value of reliable, efficent communications is worth the differential cost between two wireless lines and one line less the cost of a landline no longer needed. The differential cost estimate I made is about $10 per month. What touch screen cell phone should I buy for use outside on a bright clear day is a question on my mind, can someone help me?
I had dropped my droid and shattered the screen, it was so bad the glass was peeling off so i took it all off and was thinking i could use the original screen under the glass, but the touch screen wont work since the glass is off, does anyone know why or do you need the glass on it to work or something?
every once in a while when i unlock my droid, all i see is a black screen and the status bar. i thought it was because of BB .4 but i flashed Cyanogen RC6 and it just happened again. i can rotate and see some part of the screen on the right side. the touch screen still works when this happens but its just is black. any help it is really frusterating!
I’ve tried searching with google and youtube but I’m not sure of the answer. I dropped my phone and the glass covering the screen shattered. The glass is still flat and the phone can still be used but the cracks in the glass are distracting. Does anyone know if there would be any functionality lost if I were to simply remove the glass and place a thick screen cover over the screen itself? I’d prefer not to pay $65 for new glass, since I’d sooner pay the difference and get a droid x which I don’t really want to spend the money on.
I noticed a plug in a photo that connects the notification LED and another plug on the other side of the earpiece. I can probably keep the top of the glass (w/ the notification led and other plug) connected and just use a knife to remove the rest, applying a screen cover to the exposed touch screen. Does anyone know if this would work or if the glass has another function such as touch sensitivity?
When a friend was driving home yesterday I placed my phone in the side pocket of his car. When I pulled it out I discovered it had been sitting in a puddle that had formed from him not rolling his window up during a storm earlier. Ever since then phone calls are unhearable and some buttons on the keyboard insert a ton of unwanted letters when pressed. The camera’s auto zoom also freaks out and the flash keeps going on and off when I open up the camera. The touch screen still works perfectly fine and text messages are able to be recieved and sent. I’ve had it sitting in rice for a day, took it out and its working a little better but the buttons on the keyboard are still screwing up. Should I try a factory reset?
Yesterday, I downloaded some earthquake app, and my phone did a strange reboot where it went to red eye intro. Now my menu button won’t respond and some parts of the touch screen won’t either. I even tried a factory-reset, and that didn’t help either. I really don’t want to have to go to the store and pay for a repair :X
Have had the droid since its launch and i notice especially in recent calls when i press to call lets say someone i just recently called at the top i would press the green phone touch button and it ends up pressing someone at the bottom of the screen?? any help
Motorola Droid review part 3 of 4. Audio is in sync during this video because I turned off unnecessary apps running in the background and kept the video to within 30 seconds. The audio seems to have trouble keep up with the video after the 30 second mark. The video quality is pretty good as is the sound quality. This video was uploaded directly to YouTube with wi-fi (because it forces you to upload bigger videos on wi-fi instead of 3G). Very easy to use and not bad for short videos or filming random things like the dog or cups of coffee. This is a Verizon Motoroloa Droid powered by Google with a video camera function, touch screen and keyboard.
