Two Weeks with my Droid X2 and Gingerbread, my good and bad observations.

[DroidudeAZ]

I was upgraded to a DX2 because of the issues caused by the 2.3 update on the original Droid X. The phone worked OK at first, but would stutter when playing music in the multimedia dock and rebooted randomly in the car dock and got VERY HOT when running GPS in the car dock. 

After the Gingerbread update on my DX2 it went downhill. Music stuttered more and now the phone will make a loud feedback noise after playing a few songs and then reboot itself. This is annoying at night when I'm trying to go to sleep. it does it after EVERY 6 or 7th song!!! Car dock behavior is worse too, now when I take the phone out of the dock, sometimes it freezes on the car dock screen and I have to take the battery out. It will reboot itself when taking pics and emailing them. It continues to reboot itself in the car dock as well. 

On the good side, it's speedy to navigate between the menus and the dual core processor is indeed faster. The keyboard seems more responsive. The camera takes great pics. Battery life in the last few days seems to have improved as well. 

Here is where I'm at a crossroads: My previous Droid X was very smooth and competent on 2.2, then 2.3 basically killed it. My DX2 is a phone I want to love but these issues are frustrating. I called Verizon and spoke to a level 2 tech a couple of days ago, and he had the balls to tell me that Verizon doesn't have a history on any of the issues I noted but would send out a replacement anyway....I politely pointed out that these issues are all over the Verizon Droid X blog and Motorola's blog as well. I just want the phone to work as advertised.

I've been advised by some, here,  to check and remove apps that potentially could slow down or cause the phone to malfunction. At this point, I'm not running any downloaded apps from the Android App Store other than a Circle Battery Widget, because the factory icon is not accurate at all. Despite not running any  downloaded apps at this time and using only preinstalled apps that came with the phone, it acts as bad as it did before. I think it would be a good idea to make Android app developers disclose whether an app is compatible with 2.2 or 2.3.3 or 2.34 etc. Some do on their own now, but some don't.

Is there a software patch, under development,  that will address these issues and get the phone running smoothly again? How long will that take to happen? Why are these Gingerbread updates come out when they're obviously not well sorted out?

I am an ardent Android fan and love cool fun phone technology. I use my phone for work and would be very happy if it didn't reboot on its own and freeze up.

[droidsw]

Good post. I completely forgot about issues with the car dock. I stopped using mine. Pulling the phone off the dock was resulting in lockups, or other apps starting up.

The update, or "patch" for GB was mentioned in another thread by a Verizon employee and has a target release date of mid-Aug.