Droid 2 Gingerbread 2.3.3 Update SUCKS

[Issues4Droid2]

Gingerbread does nothing for the phone and trashes the music player.  Even if you had cover art showing in the music player for all your albums in Android 2.2, and this was not easy to do, 2.3.3 adds an additional hoop to jump through:  none of your songs can have apostrophes in the titles, otherwise you get the grey disk for the whole album.

Tech support NO HELP, and no rollback option to 2.2.

What serious software enterprise does not have a disaster recovery plan?  Verizon.

This kind of QA throws my opinion of the whole franchise into question.  Didn't they test the music player?

[Issues4Droid2]

The Android System Library scanner, which does a complete scan after battery removal, reinstall, power on, fails to find art in folders with files containing an apostrophe in the file name.  Which is a joke, because this is a legal character in Windows file names, and lots of songs are downloaded to Droids from Windows computers.

[BlueTacoMan]

I found after update none of my album art displayed. Tried reseating SD, copying it off then back on, Verizon asked me to do a master reset. Finally I renamed the file to AlbumArt.jpg no other variations worked.

[EN3]

Verizon could have and should have made this an optional update. Now I do comprehend that motorola/google dose not want this to be optional but I am certain that if verizon would have express their desire to not require this so called update. Both Motorola & Google Would have conceded to verizon's request, After all verizon is their number 1 customer. Bottom line I feel as though my phone has been adversely affected by this update. That verizon Contractually has the Legal right to force this so called update However From a ethical point They have sacrificed their customers opinions in order to placate motorola & google.

I am even more upset with about verizon Is not informing me before doing the update that there would be significant changes once the update was applied. Furthermore when my phone woke me up at 230 in the morning saying that there was an update I would have postponed it if I knew it would adversely affect and that there was significant changes that is update has done.

Bottom line I believe verizon dropped the ball so to speak with this update. In the future I would like to see verizon at least have the common courtesy of telling their customers that there will be Significant change to their phone before making those changes.

Very Disappointing verizon very very disappointing....

[EN3]

Jimfitzgerald. Why would it upset you that people or voicing their opinion? That is what the fourms are for. Bottom line it would not have hurt verizon to make it optional and now perhaps next time they will. Finally if no 1 complains then they will never change anything.

[nsbear]

I agree that this update was not a good and not having a rollback option is unheard of. It negatively affected my phone's performance. Before the update, I could go a couple days without having to charge my phone; however, since the update my phone charge doesn't even last a day. Has anyone else experienced this problem since the update?

[wavereels]

Made my phone unreliable to say the least. I've had the Droid 2 global for 7 months and need to get out of it ASAP - this update has made it essentially a brick. Sometimes it works - most of the time it doesn't. Half of my apps are gone or not working. Battery life is worse. Messaging is horrendous. Sounds like I am not alone here.

[breezex]

Ah, but it sucks so sweetly!  Best update yet. All the apps and functions that I use work well and I use my phone heavily.

[wavereels]

enlighten me on how to get the green message indicator light to STOP blinking all day - i now never know when or if i have new messages. oh yeah and maybe tell me how to get my apps and widgets back to working properly. actually if i could just get my older version o f my phone back id be happy. this update killed my phone. literally.

[Suzanna]

I have also had the same problem since the update. Makes me mad! Now I have to carry my charger with me and hope there is an electrical outlet where I'm heading cause I have no car charger.