Motorola Droid and Bank of America Mobile Banking

[Wierzyman]

   My Droid can go to the Bank of America BofA mobile site, and access all functions, however, I cannot get the phone to be a recognized device.  As a result I must answer challenge questions before I can answer my passcode, which is just another step of annoyance.  There is an option button which shows up on the screen that says Remember this device?  but there is no way to move it from no to yes.  Any suggestions?  Verizon tech said I need to clear my cookies and browsing history.  Think he confused my Droid with an actual computer!

[SFroomkin]

The rep may very well be correct on how to solve it.   All I have to do is touch the "no" and it switches to "yes."  Your Droid basically IS a computer.

[bkfist · Accepted solution]

Open your browser, hit the Menu button then - More then  Settings, scroll down and clear your cookies and cache.

Your phone absolutely IS a computer.  It is running the Linux operating system, which happens to power over half of the internet servers in the world.  Most likely the banking site you are attempting to connect to is running the same OS that underlies your Droid.

You're not in Kansas any more   Well, maybe YOU are, I don't know for sure

Let's put it this way, your Droid has more processing power than the original Cray X-1 Super Computer that Apple had to get national security clearance to buy back when they started designing the Mac computer...  It is orders of magnitude more powerful than the computer that runs the space shuttle.  Comparing your Droid to the space shuttle's computer is like comparing your desktop computer to one of the first "digital" wrist watches back in the 70's.

[fezzik]

Let me say this.  The first computer I built was an Intel 486 DX4 100Mhz.  My droid is nominally 5 times faster but because the processor is actually considerably more powerful as well it is actually much faster and sickly more powerful.  interestingly enough I also have more memory both RAM and ROM on my Droid and the "hard drive" is also larger.  Ok so it isn't as sophisticated even as my laptop running a Pentium IV w/hyperthreading but make no mistake about it this little puppy is more advanced than some laptops less than a decade old.  Sometimes it is actually difficult for me to remember it is a phone.  LOL. 

[Wierzyman]

You were right on the money.  BofA tech support had no idea of how to get to the cookies and cache.  Your detailed steps worked great.  Now, to attack the other issues you mentioned....  I don't live in Kansas, not that there would be anything wrong with that.  I am aware of the power of the Android in comparison to early computers.  Been using computers since a 286 processor in a laptop cost me 2 grand! (20 meg HD too!)  However, you are going to have to back up your Apple buying "back" the Cray from the government.  No trace of that anywhere I searched on the web.  Being a tech geek would love to know your source for the story.  And your comparison of computing power on the shuttle.  I have a friend who works for NASA who might have a bit different view of that.  Will run that by him the next time he is in town!