Basic text selection is broken in the new Gingerbread update.
According to the stock Android 2.3.3 manual,:
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Select text
You select text that you want to cut, copy, delete, or replace.
1 Touch & hold the text or word you want to select.
2 Touch Select word or Select all in the menu that opens.The selected text is highlighted in orange, with a tab at each end of the selection. [emphasis mine]
3 Drag either selection tab to expand or reduce the range of selected text.If you change your mind, you can unselect the text by touching unselected text inthe same or in another text field, or press the Back button.
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In the DROID X Gingerbread update, pressing on a word highlights the word, but the tabs NEVER appear at each end of the word. Instead, the phone prompts me to copy, cut or paste. This happens in every app, including the Google search bar, Gmail, Docs to Go, Note Everything, or any other program with a text entry field.
This is a stock device, never rooted nor hacked in any way. I have factory reset my phone and tried this with both the multi-touch keyboard and swype. The results are identical.
The so-called Help Center app on the phone does not address this issue.
Selecting more than one word of text is therefore impossible. Without flexible text selection, the Droid X is little more than a tinker toy. I may as well be editing my documents with a t9 numeric keyboard on a flip phone.
After SIX MONTHS of Motorola altering this otherwise working OS - and Verizon approving it - I'm reduced to asking what appears to be the most common question of both companies: When will Motorola/Verizon issue a fix?
Michael R. Marano
Extremely dissatisfied customer
