I'm starting to dislike my Droid.

[joshwithachance]

I completely agree. so excited to switch to this from my iPhone, but after 4 days I reactivated my iPhone!

 

[dtartini]

Rooting would def solve several problems at the same time. Not mentioned yet would be the benifit of a low votage kernel. This made a HUGE difference in my battery life. Something to look into. Plus you would have the better 2.1 browser and could overclock to fix the lag.

 

[superglen99]

Some driods did/do have voice quality issues. you have a 1 year manufacturers warranty and I would return it. if the voice quality is bad, maybe thats why the browser lags so bad, could be a bad phone. I am rooted and OC to 800mhz. I have all the 2.1 goodies and the 2.1 browser is flawless, no lag and also opera mini is hella fast. You can use opera without root. my phone seemlessly flips through screens and all with animated wallpaper. no lag. the battery isnt any worse than iphones battery. Difference is you can buy another one for like $15 and keep it charged and on you if need be. Overclocking using setcpu will allow you to underclock in certain conditions i.e. phone sleeping or charging, to save battery. I think you should root the phone and you will have a different view and get 2.1, all for free with no more delays lol

 

[dro]

Do some reading, flash Ultimate Droid 8.1.1, and eat your words guaranteed. I felt the same way at first. A fresh Droid out of the box is just potential, it is up to you to use it.

 

[iPirate]

Sucks for you, sounds like a user error. My phone calls are clear, the phone is fast, great browser, great battery life, great build quality.

 

[iPirate]

I completely agree. so excited to switch to this from my iPhone, but after 4 days I reactivated my iPhone!

And yet you are still here! Why?

 

[mrshickadance9]

how bout stop whining and go get another phone? i'll put $100 on it being worse than the droid in every aspect. no one cares that you dont like your droid, millions of people around the world would kill to have something as advanced and powerful as the droid on a network as solid as verizon.

the fact that millions of people love their droid means you can leave the crowd and no one will shed a tear. just stop crying about a phone that's more awesome than you, or go suck an apple nut and stick with the iphone on the worst carrier in america.

woah.. someone's got some anger issues! Why don't you settle down buddy? You realized all you did by responding to my thread was to bump it to the top, right?

I did do the ##program and it made it worse so it switched it back. I'll try the *228 thing.

 

[mrshickadance9]

Sucks for you, sounds like a user error. My phone calls are clear, the phone is fast, great browser, great battery life, great build quality.

how would it be user error? user error means i did something to it or i was using it wrong. If anything, it's a build error or something.

 

[mrshickadance9]

Thanks to those of you that gave mature well thought out suggestions to me. The others...well... have fun being d-bags. I might bring it in to get a new one... i just would hate to be given a refurb (i know verizon used to do that... i don't know if they still do) after dropping 100 for a new one. I will try rooting it if/when i get a new one.

 

[iPirate]

You are coming here asking us to sell you on the phone. I was sold before I got the phone and still loving it. It isn't a phone for everyone, no phone is. Maybe iphone is the phone for you. Nobody should waste any more energy trying to convince you to keep something you don't like. Return it and get your iphone.

You don't have to like my posts, but you are not the first person to come here and ask for people to give them a reason to keep the phone. Just return it and get back to your iphone.

 

[mrshickadance9]

You are coming here asking us to sell you on the phone. I was sold before I got the phone and still loving it. It isn't a phone for everyone, no phone is. Maybe iphone is the phone for you. Nobody should waste any more energy trying to convince you to keep something you don't like. Return it and get your iphone.

You don't have to like my posts, but you are not the first person to come here and ask for people to give them a reason to keep the phone. Just return it and get back to your iphone.

Maybe you misread or didn't understand my post. I asked "what am I missing" meaning maybe there are tricks I don't know about to fix the issues I stated.

Just as you say don't use the droid if I dont like it, I say to you: don't keep reading my posts if you don't like them

 

[dtrust]

Thanks to those of you that gave mature well thought out suggestions to me. The others...well... have fun being d-bags. I might bring it in to get a new one... i just would hate to be given a refurb (i know verizon used to do that... i don't know if they still do) after dropping 100 for a new one. I will try rooting it if/when i get a new one.

I know where you are coming from about being given a refurb. However, even as I felt the same way when I had to get a new Droid (when mine went apes__t), I am completely happy with the refurb. It is better than the first one was.

One way to look at it this -- the refurb has been gone over meticulously by hand by a tech. Something that can't be said for a new one out of the box. It's a sure bet that the refurb has at least as good a chance of being perfect as a new one. Once you get over the fact that it's not 'new out of the box' it's a non-issue.

I completely agree with you about the browser. Nothing on the planet can touch the iphone's browser. The Droid really isn't that bad, though. Keep in mind that the Droid is still in it's infancy, and will get better as time goes on. (at least the potential is there.) The browser was better before the first update to 2.0.1, and hopefully will be fixed in 2.1 again. Xscope is worth the time to 'get used to it', it really is a great piece of work by the dev.

As far as your voice quality, you do need to get a new Droid. The call quality is as good as any phone out there as long as you don't have a bad one.

Hopefully, you can get you problems resolved. The only experience I have with AT&T is from years ago, and the service was horrible in my area then. From the complaints on this and other forums, I don't think it has changed much in general. I would suck if you had to go back to a network you may have had problems with.

 

[mrshickadance9]

Thanks to those of you that gave mature well thought out suggestions to me. The others...well... have fun being d-bags. I might bring it in to get a new one... i just would hate to be given a refurb (i know verizon used to do that... i don't know if they still do) after dropping 100 for a new one. I will try rooting it if/when i get a new one.

I know where you are coming from about being given a refurb. However, even as I felt the same way when I had to get a new Droid (when mine went apes__t), I am completely happy with the refurb. It is better than the first one was.

One way to look at it this -- the refurb has been gone over meticulously by hand by a tech. Something that can't be said for a new one out of the box. It's a sure bet that the refurb has at least as good a chance of being perfect as a new one. Once you get over the fact that it's not 'new out of the box' it's a non-issue.

I completely agree with you about the browser. Nothing on the planet can touch the iphone's browser. The Droid really isn't that bad, though. Keep in mind that the Droid is still in it's infancy, and will get better as time goes on. (at least the potential is there.) The browser was better before the first update to 2.0.1, and hopefully will be fixed in 2.1 again. Xscope is worth the time to 'get used to it', it really is a great piece of work by the dev.

As far as your voice quality, you do need to get a new Droid. The call quality is as good as any phone out there as long as you don't have a bad one.

Hopefully, you can get you problems resolved. The only experience I have with AT&T is from years ago, and the service was horrible in my area then. From the complaints on this and other forums, I don't think it has changed much in general. I would suck if you had to go back to a network you may have had problems with.

Does anybody have a fairly new step by step rooting guide? The ones i've found with the search function on here are from december and I feel like they're probably not accurate anymore. I'm just going to bite the bullet and try it.

 

[hookbill]

I'll make it real easy for you. Go to DroidMod - Everything Droid doesn't, DroidMod does.. Download the DMupdater on their site. Follow the directions there and use the DMupdater to root and install Droidmod. Now I think it's a battery hog but that's my opinion. Purchase SetCpu in the market and overclock to 800. Don't forget to set up the profiles for lower amounts when you're Droid is in sleep and charge mode.

You will see instantly how much faster it is. From there you can look at installing other ROMs, which are probably better then Droidmod. I highly recommend Blackdroid.

 

[nphil]

If you take your Droid to a Verizon store, they will replace it for you with a brand new Droid. (Assuming you're withing the 30 day grace period).

I had voice quality/headphone jack issues like you too and I had to take my Droid to the store. The rep put up a fuss about having to "test" the phone to reproduce the error but I blew off on him and told him to either get me a damn Droid asap or I cancel my contract. Brand new droid, had to wait an hour just to get called though.

For your speed issues, root.

Seriously, just root.