Verizon Tech here - ask away!

[dandy007]

Viperboy,
I am wanting to get to know the OS better and possibly get into the development aspect of it. Where would you reccomend that I go for the resources needed?

 

[raiderspen]

Cool viperboy..I'm new to the Droid world and really like it. I'm not having any problems so far. The ugrade went well. What do you think of mikandi apps.

 

[ltfrakes]

Thanks Miami and JimMariner!

 

[raiderspen]

Do they work okay? I don't want to put something on and Jack my phone.

 

[Yimikoo]

Hi Viperboy,

Thank you for offering to help on the forums!! I have a problem where whenever I get a txt message and I press the box to reply back, my virtual keyboard (while the phone is vertical) does not show up. The box doesn't even get highlighted with the orange/yellow color and then the screen will either freeze or will let me scroll through the txt thread, but I won't be able to go to the home screen for a bit. Then, it'll either tell me that the txt messaging needs a force close or I'll be able to go to the home screen.
Is there a solution to this?

Secondly, along with the messaging issue, when I'm using the virtual keyboard my keys won't go through. For example, I'll type out "apple" on the keyboard and it'll say that I pressed it (i.e. the letter bubble will pop up when I press the letter), but when I look in my txt bar, it'll only have "apl" typed out. I tried typing slower and it still does it. =/

Thirdly, I know you said not to post any questions about specific apps, but whenever I run my task killer app, a lot of apps that I haven't even touched or opened will be on my "to kill" list. It's not just the same apps all the time either. Sometimes I'll get corporate email, alarm clock, settings, etc. I'll kill everything and then lock my phone. Wait like 5 mins and unlock it and open task killer, and it'll say I have a list of apps running. Is that normal to have apps start and run in the background even though I haven't opened it up myself?

Also, when I call someone I hear a high pitched ringing noise. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens like 95% of the time. When I put it on the speaker I don't hear it. I took it to Verizon and they exchanged it for me, but it's still happening. This is my 3rd Droid because my first one's sensor was broken and that phone never had this high pitched ringing noise, so I don't know what to think. Since the first one didn't do it though, there must be a problem, right? =/ What should I do? I want to go get a new Droid, but I just feel like I'm having to exchange too many times.

Lastly, I turned off the "haptic feedback" option in the settings, but whenever I unlock my phone (move the green circle on the unlock screen), it'll vibrate my phone. Is this normal?


Thank you!!!

 

[hiro808]

Quick ?

Whats up Viperboy, quick question and I hope that Im not wasting your time. I asked around here locally and no one knows how to delete a single contact from the favorites list in the phone mode without deleting it the contact from the contact list. The only way that its been figured out so far is by deleting the number or poerson as a contact. Any suggestion.

 

[keiichi25]

My battery use is.....

Display 90%

Cell standby 3%

Android System 3%

E-mail 2%

Music 2%

Last night I went to bed with a full charge and nothing running, woke up this morning 7-8 hours later and the phone was completely dead. i was shocked, my battery life has been excellent because I'm not a heavy app user. And i do not do much and e-mailing and no texting or IMing.

Ridley - Given the 90% on Display, something suggests that you have your display forced on most of the time at night... Like if you have your Alarm Clock or Media Station enabled. If so, the display does eat up power a lot. Check and see if you have a magnet near where you have your phone, which could trigger a dock mode.

 

[mattp5302]

Viperboy, I just got the motorola droid, and cannot figure out in the picture gallery how to transfer pics from one folder to another. Is this possible?

 

[dezymond]

Viperboy, I just got the motorola droid, and cannot figure out in the picture gallery how to transfer pics from one folder to another. Is this possible?

1. Just press and hold on the picture you want.
2. Select "copy"
3. Go to the new folder and you'll see a little "up arrow" on the bottom
4. Slide that arrow up and your copied picture will show
5. Press and hold the copied item and hit "paste"

Success.

 

[Backnblack]

Viperboy,
I am wanting to get to know the OS better and possibly get into the development aspect of it. Where would you reccomend that I go for the resources needed?

I am guessing that is not a VZW question...

 

[BigBriDrol]

quick question,

I have been having the same muffled sound issues on the reciever end and have done teh switch first to the -4 then to the 13k. Both give me good quality for about 3 hours then it goes back to being muffled.

Should I return the phone for another Droid, or are all Droids like this right now?

 

[hoghead]

email

Prob. already been asked but why cant I view pics sent in email.... I click on the view pictures tab but just question marks show up where the pics. should be....... thanks and merry christmas to all

 

[mike louis]

Hey Droid Community

What's good. I have 2 questions for Viper. But anyone eles that would like to can chime in.
1. You said the keyboard sliding mech is sturdy and nothing to worry about. My question is what about the volume rocker? Do you believe that as well is sturdy?

2. Now this Is more taylored to anyone with a droid. I pretty much know almost everything about the phone, (tends to happen to something you want, but dont have in your possession lol) but I wanna know about the less known changes in 2.01. Everybody is happy with the better auto-focus and things like that, I would like to know about the changes that few mention in the update. I would appreciated anyones views on this thanks.

 

[cvhovey]

Droid: Repeat Email Notification?

Viperboy: I've searched on this issue high and low, here and everywhere, but I've come up completely dry. As a last resort, maybe you know of a work-around or not....

I very much want to sign-up and get the Droid. Since I am deaf, the vibration notification option is of critical importance. And getting repeat notifications is doubly-important when the Droid's vibration registers less seismic activity than an ant's sneeze.

Sadly, the "Missed Call" app does not cover email notifications. Nor can I find anyone mentioning an alternate email app that has its own built-in notification function to allow for repeat vibration notifications. An alternate email app wouldn't address Gmail and I wouldn't want to totally give up push email by having to do all email through an alternate email app.

I have to admit being rather baffled that a cutting edge smartphone platform such as Android appears to lack the ability to do such a pre-school task as repeat email notifications (that also works with vibration mode). Grabbing a smartphone out of a holster over and over and over again to check for messages is oh-so-snail-mail ... like sitting in the window watching for the mail carrier to deliver the day's mail.

If I sign-up for the Droid right now, without a workable way to be alerted & reminded about incoming email, I'd be cursing it within the week. And ready to turn it into a thousand pieces before the end of the 30-day return period.

So, before I totally eliminate the Droid from my shopping list (and all Android devices be default), I'm making a last-gasp shout for help on this issue ... before going under water for the third time. Thx for any insights you can offer.

 

[uplate]

So I was playing around and found this out:

Pull up the Applications Tab>>>Go to Settings>>>Go to Search>>>Go to Searchable Items and see if Contacts is checked

Hope this helps!!


Thanks for the Help Res. I had done that and also have unchecked everything except Contacts. It still takes me to a google search on the Web!