Droid = babysitting nightmare

[droidbabysittin]

I wont bore you with the endless details (110 hours worth).  My conclusion is this phone is a {word filter avoidance}
unless you love to geek out and fix and tweak and fix and tweak and fix and tweak.  Sad there is an online community trying to figure out this {word filter avoidance}

The geeks in the forum are trying their best to defend but they are confused and reguarly give advice that is poor and misleanding including conflicting.  For those that LOVE this phone please buy my paperweight so i can move on with my life and you can spend your time trying to tweak and fix and tweak and fix and tweak and fix

[jasnmar · Accepted solution]

Droid is certainly a geeky phone, and isn't for everyone. If you're serious, how much do you want for it? I have a friend who wants one.

[Cobjones]

Maybe you should have gotten something simpler.. I suggest an enV

[PJNC284]

Agreed.  Sounds like someone isn't ready for an open platform.  Android definitely isn't for everyone and you need to be able to accept the way it operates or be prepared to make it operate the way you want (be a "geek").  If you're expecting Verizon to magically fix everything and/or you got the phone just because it looked cool, you likely won't be happy with an Android phone period and are probably better suited for a "non-geek" phone.

[TheGreatOne]

Verizon does have "feature phones" which are pretty simple & standard. If you want a really simple phone consider the LG Accolade.  I think the android phones are far more advanced. 

[#6]

I've had my Droid since January with zero problems...but I'm not a 15 year old girl.

[Cobjones]

I will say their is an issue. I am on my 5th... but I am/ not complaining about the complexity of the device... I will continue getting a fix until they get it right... it will eventually cost them less to get me a new and/or fixed phone.

[rocknm]

Well, call me a hick from the sticks but OMG.  This phone is awesome, it DOES everything, every day i find something else that blows my mind. Im waiting to find the spout the coffee comes out of.  LOL Ive had mine for 2 weeks and no problems and im just a hick, my prior phone was a razer, big leap forward for my kind.  And it really dont take a geek to figure it out.  I read the boards, use others opinions and ideas, some work, some dont and I run with it.  Now every one calls me the "hi-tech redneck" Its working for me, and I spend my 10 hr day on the back of a horse, Thank G@d for Speech to TXT.  

Rockn M  "hi-tech redneck"

[#9]

The coffee app is in the Market.

[jcrispen]

Would probably benefit her to move to AT&T and get an iPhone, since they are simple enough for a 3 year old to use and you won't ever have to worry about complicated things like Flash or keeping a signal.

[kwparker80]

That's the truth. Hard enough to text from the passenger seat of a car much less from the back of a horse!

[supitsmike]

I would actually enjoy a list of things that the OP feels that's wrong with the Android OS/His particular phone. That way I could give him a solution, so that he can stop crying so much.

Otherwise, OP, I suggest moving to the iPhone 4. At least that way your solution is clear: hold your phone on the other hand.

[Cobjones]

@ jcrispen
Haha ... nice