Slow phone after Verizon update

[renee1]

Hello,
I just joined this site and have hopes of learning a lot about my phone. I've had the Droid X for about 2 years now but am still learning. I am not familiar with these forums so I'll have to learn to navigate my way through this too.

I joined mainly because I have been frustrated with my phone after I downloaded the first verizon update. It is now so S L O W. I have called Verizon and spent a couple hours and gotten to level 3 techs and no can help. I have cleared data from the keyboard and language and did a soft reset (they called it when you take the battery out while the phone is on). No Help. The icons light up blue when I touch them and a second later the screen goes black then the app appears. Never did that before the update. I started having trouble with the calendar syncing to my mac (through google delegates) I found a site About which solved he calendar problems.

Another annoying problem I've having is in my contacts. I have groups set up. When I touch a group to pull up the one I touched does not pull up but instead the last one I used shows up. Does anyone out there have some advice for me?
Thanks
renee1​

 

[kptphalkon]

I can't help you with the contacts issue but...

Go into settings > applications > running services and check to see what apps are using your battery and cpu the most. If display and the phone radio aren't in the top 5 there may be a user installed app that is running constantly which you should delete.

 

[Dave Lister]

The Droid X is a different phone than the original Droid. You might have better luck solving your problem in the Droid X forum as people more familiar with the peculiarities of that phone will see your post.

 

[brad92]

Sounds like you need to wipe data.

MIUI 2012.3.23

 

[Dave Lister]

Sounds like you need to wipe data.

No it doesn't. There should not be a need to wipe data after applying an officially released update.

 

[brad92]

No it doesn't. There should not be a need to wipe data after applying an officially released update.

Any time a phone is updated, it is usually best to do a data wipe, especially if you are experiencing any problems. Even if it is an official update and especially ifit is a big update such as Froyo to GB. I can't tell you how many times issues have been resolved from OTA updates by a data wipe. You may be able to get by with just a cache wipe, but you'll have to see

MIUI 2012.3.23

 

[Durandgir]

Wiping after an OTA does not make much sense. You should not need to.

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[brad92]

Look over at the DX section at the threads when the GB OTA was coming out. Most of the problems could be fixed with a data wipe.

Same principle if your keyboard force closes or acts funky. Wipe the keyboard data and it usually fixes it.

I'm not saying I know anything about the OG, but I do know about the X.

MIUI 2012.3.23

 

[Durandgir]

But if he isn't rooted the recovery does not have any of those options does it?

 

[brad92]

Stock recovery has the option for wiping data and cache or just cache.

MIUI 2012.3.23

 

[guidot]

Thread closed.

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