Alright I've got a new HTC Droid on the way, for the next 2 days I have a phone I can use the internet and check my email on, but the most basic cell phone functions I can no longer use, send/receive both calls and messages.
I'll get into the problems that lead me to do a hard reset on my phone today later, we'll start there.
So I've read about doing a hard reset and how it fixes a lot of problems. So I prepared today not knowing what would happen really. Backed up my photos and contacts and had at it. Turns out I didn't need to back those up.
So everything goes alright, it calls Verizon to activate my phone, says everything went fine. No calls or text messaging. But I've got internet and gmail. I get an error message when trying to send texts, and I get a verizon recording saying "We can't authenticate your phone."
Take it in to the Verizon store, they can't figure it out either, so they order me a new phone.
The greeter gal was the most helpful really, she asked me if I did a *228, I didn't know what it was cause the phone called to activate by itself. So later I tried that wondering if it was something different. I tried the second option activating roaming. Didn't work.
So right now as I'm typing this I got the battery out, we'll see if that works.
Alright here's my laundry list of complaints:
It's slow, even for the most basic things like making a call or text messaging. I understand it's not a very fast processor compared to other phones but for basic things it shouldn't struggle. Hell even the calculator lags.
The messaging program sucks. Well since the update I see they finally made it so it can play animated gifs. But where to begin with this, well first you can't delete messages. It locks up. Second if you don't want to delete a whole thread, you can't go through and select all the ones you want to delete, and mass delete, no you have to hold down everyone you want to delete, till the screen pops up, click delete, wait, and go to the next one.
If that wasn't time consuming enough, wait till you get a picture message with multiple attachments. No it can't play it like regular phones, this is a droid dammit! We have to be innovative and make it so you click on the attachments button, and it brings up a screen that lists all the attachments! Then when you find the one you want, you can't simply just click it to view it, no we give you another pop up that gives you options, to view, or save the attachment! I mean regular phones you could save the attachments while you're viewing them, but droid gives you options before hand, then after all the lag to load and exit the attachment, you get to start all over to look at the next one! (Handcent fixed a lot of the problems I had with the messaging but it loses multiple attachments so I end up going back to regular messaging to look at them)
Gmail on your phone! Only thing that sucks about this is google saves every person you have correspondence with through gmail as a friggin contact. At least I can delete them off my phone, time consuming and annoying, I still haven't figured out how to delete them off actual gmail.
Facebook! Hey if google contacts wasn't bad enough, in this connected day and age, when you type in a name to call or send a text message to, it searches facebook friends too! And its really fun when your friends have old numbers listed on their facebook account and you call it and it's some 80 year old guy named herbert who says he'll dress in pig tails and be Jessica if I want.
I use Gmail, I use Facebook, but I do not need these to be a part of my contacts for my calling and texting in any way!
The silent phone issues. Mine has gotten worse lately.
The one thing I didn't mind, the browser, well attention is in the details, and they made one thing super annoying now. I liked browsing craigslist on my phone, most browsers for computers, you click the back button, it returns you to the point in the page you were at, oh no, not droid, it takes you to some point in the page it feels like going back to when you click back. Which is annoying when you're zoomed in trying to go down a list. Either fix this or make it so you can just open links in new tabs.
I've been searching online for solutions to these problems if you got any please fill me in. And before I send this, I put the battery back in, booted it up, still not able to make calls or send messages.
