| enrageorange said: I don't know about you guys but I am having a very very bad experience with android on my droid 3. Android OS constantly crashing causing the screen to just go black. All apps, from youtube to a finance app, constantly crashing which freezes the phone because forceclose works 10% of the time, forcing me to remove the battery and restart the phone. When phone is off it takes around 5-10 minutes for it to boot up and considering I need to reset it around 3 times a day, that becomes a big pain. Sometimes it gets stuck in the bootup splash screen forever and I need to remove battery. Phone randomly reboots just for the fun of it. Battery occasionally completely discharges. Headphone jack works half the time. Playing songs through either headphones or the built in droid speaker causes a lot of skipping, sounds kind of like playing a cd that has lots of scratches. The same mp3 files play fine on my laptop, zune, and itouch. My music playlists get deleted whenever I charge my phone using my laptop. If I want to play any game, I need to reboot it first because if its been on for over an hour it will lag like crazy even playing something simple like scramble with friends, despite the droid 3 having very good specs. Phone gets very hot doing anything but idleing. With minimum brightness, wifi and navigation off, battery lasts around 3 hours of none idle time(browsing web, texting, finance app) or 2 hours playing games or watching videos. Lasts a long time on idle though. Verizon assured me that is the way the phone is suppose to act after trying to return it thinking it's possibly defective. This is my first smartphone, but come upgrade time I'm probably not going to get an android phone again. Its too bad apple and microsoft don't make phones with physical keyboards. That's the one thing I like about my droid 3. It's much easier to type things and emulators and roms control much better with the keyboard than touch controls. |
My Droid 3 is the best phone I've ever had, bar none. It also doesn't suffer ANY of the problems you just detailed (well, except occasionally restarting, but that's nbd because it's usually back to operation in a minute). My battery usually lasts me 14 hours in normal usage, with usually an hour and a half of that time being watching videos and the rest of that time filled with texting and the lot. If I don't use it heavily, I've had it last me more than two days.
You need to contact Verizon and tell them to send you a replacement. You're still under warranty, so as long as your problem isn't your fault, you can get it replaced for free.
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