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Droid 2, R2D2 - Going Slow and Freezing whatever I'm doing

So in the last 3-4 days, my phone has been exceedingly slow, through everything. Halfway through typing a sentence my browser/text messaging freezes and stops. I can't even home-button out of it. Hitting home to return brings me to the home page after a few minutes, which is then frozen. I wait for it to unfreeze and it loads my text message inbox...but without the ability to type. This happens for browsing/facebook/texting. Also, whatever other apps I use, are very very sluggish. Most apps will load normally for 15-20 seconds, then slow down, then freeze. Many different apps have come to the "xxxxxx is not responding, send error report?"

I have not downloaded any new apps.

I have not overly used my phone.

I have scanned for viruses.

Today, I deleted task killer, to see if that was it.

To no avail, the phone is still very sluggish, and after 'confusing' it with running a program, it restarts. Repetitively.

Any help would be great!

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Wildman

Try booting into safe mode and see if the device runs any better, if it does it will most likely be a app causing the issues...

Remember sometimes apps updates cause issues, you may not installed anything new but a update for a app may came in that cause issues, this wouldn't be the first time..

Power off and then Hold the "OK" button on the keyboard down and power up the phone. It will say "SAFE MODE" in the lower right corner of the screen.

HeatherL

Mine is doing the same thing. After that mandatory installation, I believe it was the 2.1 update, my phone has gone nuts! It is extremely slow, and everything is freezing. Now I cannot even type out a text message, through Handcent or the stock app, and text are coming through doubled.

I thought maybe I needed to just update Handcent, but that didn't help either. I can pull up the app, click a thread, and begin typing without any problems. As soon as the first word is typed though, it freezes completely, and I can even get back to the home screen for a few minutes. One out of five times or so it will give me the option to force close or wait, but other than that I have to just wait.

I'm tried booting in safe mode, and also deleted task killer, checked for viruses, and haven't downloaded or updated any applications. If anyone finds a solution, please post it here, or email me at {edited for privacy}. After work hours, communication with my boss is though messaging for project details. Go figure my phone would do this when I've got a huge work load, with a short deadline.

HeatherL

Okay, so I just posted, but I did one more search on the subject, and found this in the Droid Forums:

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-tech-issues/169829-cant-text-after-updating-my-phone-2.html

It is the same issue, and says to go into Menu>Settings>Manage Applications>Multitouch Keyboard>Clear data. If that doesn't work then do the same process, but go into your phone's messaging app and clear data.

So far it worked for me, and the only thing I lost at all was my background/screen saver. My phone isn't lagging anymore, and Handcent is working fine.

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