3 bad Droids, freezing and sleep button not working?

[JesiGoodman]

So, I am on my 3rd droid and it froze and rebooted in less then an hour.  The first droid had an iffy battery and eventually the sleep button stopped working.  It would shut off the phone but would not put it too sleep.  The second phone started randomly rebooting.  So, I brought it back to the Verizon store.  The Verizon rep did a master reset and as I was setting up the gmail settings the phone froze and the Verizon rep did not see it.  We got it set up and (it also reinstalled all my apps I had downloaded including ones I had uninstalled which struck me as odd) played with it for a while.  I decided to sit in my car just to make sure it would work ... within 45 mins the sleep button stoped working.  I went back into the store they gave me a 3rd new phone but used the 2nd SD card to transfer my contacts, telling me to delete any apps I had downloaded to the phone through my gmail account.  I guess they think even my apps are linked to my gmail ... this makes no sense to me.  And then the third phone freezes and reboots.  The manager is claiming it is somehow a bad app I installed ... never really got that far with the third phone.

So, the first and second phones have my phone number, gmail and charger in common.  The second and third phone have my phone number, sd card and charger in common but I never syncd the third phone with my gmail.  All three phones have my phone number and charger in common ...

I assume the store maybe recieved a bad bach or droids but, the first one was ordered online and they claim I am the only one they have seen with this issue.  Any suggestions?  Anyone else experiencing similar problems?  I like the phone when it works and I really don't want to give up on it but I beginning to think the universe does not want me to have one.

[supitsmike]

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JesiGoodman wrote:

So, I am on my 3rd droid and it froze and rebooted in less then an hour.  The first droid had an iffy battery and eventually the sleep button stopped working.  It would shut off the phone but would not put it too sleep.  The second phone started randomly rebooting.  So, I brought it back to the Verizon store.  The Verizon rep did a master reset and as I was setting up the gmail settings the phone froze and the Verizon rep did not see it.  We got it set up and (it also reinstalled all my apps I had downloaded including ones I had uninstalled which struck me as odd) played with it for a while.  I decided to sit in my car just to make sure it would work ... within 45 mins the sleep button stoped working.  I went back into the store they gave me a 3rd new phone but used the 2nd SD card to transfer my contacts, telling me to delete any apps I had downloaded to the phone through my gmail account.  I guess they think even my apps are linked to my gmail ... this makes no sense to me.  And then the third phone freezes and reboots.  The manager is claiming it is somehow a bad app I installed ... never really got that far with the third phone.

So, the first and second phones have my phone number, gmail and charger in common.  The second and third phone have my phone number, sd card and charger in common but I never syncd the third phone with my gmail.  All three phones have my phone number and charger in common ...

I assume the store maybe recieved a bad bach or droids but, the first one was ordered online and they claim I am the only one they have seen with this issue.  Any suggestions?  Anyone else experiencing similar problems?  I like the phone when it works and I really don't want to give up on it but I beginning to think the universe does not want me to have one.

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Do not worry or fret my friend, it's not that the universe doesn't want you to have a Droid, it's just simply...

Bad luck.

I went through an extremely similar problem. I literally, no joke, went through four G1'S before I decided to go to get the MyTouch, and let me tell you it was completely agonizing.

Here's what I suggest you do: Get a new Droid, don't use your old SD card, and use your existing Gmail account. Use the new charger, use everything that the package comes with -- new.

These things are common, and it's incredible that you've been so patient with the first layered production of Droids

[AgentWade07]

Make sure you do not have the application "Spare Parts" installed ( or previously installed and now uninstalled ) with the "End Button Behavior" setting set to "do nothing" or something other than "go to sleep". If you do not have the application any longer or have never had it, try installing the application and set the "End Button Behavior" to "go to sleep". I found that once I had adjusted the setting randomly, it stayed with the phone settings that were saved to the SD card and/or the google account. I didn't realize the power button did not put the phone to sleep until much later and after I had uninstalled the application thinking it didn't do much. A factory reset, removing all applications, and a wipe of the SD card did not fix the problem for some reason. I was convinced the problem was hardware based until re-installing the application and changing it back to "go to sleep". I believe the default setting may even be "do nothing" which causes the problem.