Who IS happy with 2.2?

[RHL]

I have not received the update message yet and after reading many posts I am not sure I want to update. However, I realize that these forums are the place for people to solve problems so I am unsure how many replies I am going to get in regards to positive responses. Being a "techie". I am well familiar with the bugs and bumps of a new upgrade, but this is my phone, my life line to the world. Should I wait or should I go???

[budone]

I would wait and if need be do a master reset.....

[markiss777]

i love it, all you have to do is a factory reset and after i did  that my phone is a complete BEAST!!!!!!

[w40d1n1]

I am not happy with the upgrade to froyo. Like many others i expected performance improvements. However, as others have indicated, the Internet browser is dog slow now. Opening popular sites takes the same amount of time, but you can hardly navigate around the page until it finishes loading all the images. It's as though the phone has very little memory available and is trying to free up more by using more cpu cycles to kill other apps and swap their memory to persistent storage. To put it mildly, it is horrible. I haven't yet heard enough people say that a wipe+fresh-install fixes everything....but i'm tempted to try that.t

[popcycle4]

I am loving 2.2 - for me this is the greatest gadget i've ever seen.

[RHL]

Thank you all for your reply and I am interested, as are others, of your comments, they are extremely helpful. I am assuming the trick is the hard reset, only having my phone for a short period I only have my contacts on it that are backed up by the Backup assistant and also Gmail. With no other personal info to be backed up and some simple connections to web mail and Facebook, a hard rest will not be a big issue if necessary. Thank you all again, please continue to comment and  have a great weekend! 

[vglass]

Good luck.  I updated last Friday and my phone is buggy and slow.  Jumps all over the place...I would go back to 2.1 if I could, was VERY happy before the 2.2 downgrade.

[y2kflhr]

I did a complete wipe before my upload came ....long bad story, but my phone works great better battery life-its been on now for 15h52m23s still has 50%, granted I didn't use it all that much:

standby 30%

phone idle 28%

wifi 25%

system 11%

display 4%

maps 2%

but I was using tapatalk and the camera last night around 8:30 and the phone is still cranking...

[AZSALUKI]

the hard reset is only IF you have any issues. most of us had none. i am LOVING 2.2. didn't need to reset. had no issues. uninstalled app killer. battery life is the same. and i'm not sure what the deal is with some people's browsing experience? everyone i've seen (including myself) that has run speed tests, have seen significant increase in upload/dowload speeds. still scrolls as smooth as an iphone. 720p video recording is sweet. i almost dropped the $20/mo to add the hot spot feature (at a fantasy football draft last night with 6 guys on laptops when the wifi crashed) last night just to show it off, but thought better of it. yes....apps run in the ground. but no.....it has had no negative impact on my performance. using the stock battery and i still get 20+ hours of up time and about 3 hours of awake time. i rarely actually use it more than 3 hours in a day so it works GREAT for me. i know there are legitimate bugs and issues out there, but i also suspect many users have things synching constantly that they don't realize. like dabu mentioned, i tweaked a lot of those. don't use the facebook app, set email to only check every 15 minutes, turned of "news,"  "stocks,"  and "weather" synching (when i use the weather widget i synch it with one touch while viewing so why do i need it to constantly synch?). unless i use it heavily for some reason, i still get a full day from one charge (same as the day i bought it 4 months ago).

[vicpim74]

Well...I'm in the middle here. I'm happy about the 720p upgrade but disappointed with the bugs that came along with it (update).

I did the fac reset yesterday & the phone is still behaving pretty much the same.

My problem has been while texting. It appears that the phone is playing "catch up" to my keystrokes. It's very laggy at times while texting.

I've also noticed that the phone, as a whole, is sluggish. Prior to the update, this phone was a beast! It was fast & very responsive! I feel like the update took away some of it's speed for some reason.

I too am having the noticeable slower charging & slower net speed.

I sure hope a patch is in the works!

P.S.. I removed ATK as the phone was total garbage with it. Since removal of it, the phone stabilized with the exception of the above referenced.

[TheGreatOne]

I would probably love 2.2 IF i could receive it on my phone

[falcom]

Not happy at all. my battery now dies by around 12PM-1PM every day without making a single phone call, or browsing the web. with 2.1 it lasted until 7 or 8PM easily with heavy use, push email, widgets, and all the goodies turned on.

[tsklin]

No, not happy at all. 

Slight performance improvement for a phone that depletes battery at an unacceptable rate.  I do not have task killer installed, did a factory reboot, and there are unwanted apps running in the background constantly.

[dabubbakin]

Love it. BTW... my extended battery gives me nothing to complain about. No app killers, and programs I download that run in background get uninstalled, gmail is synced but everything else is set to manual, or 12 hrs.
Reboot daily to kill off and memory fighting with the OS and apps.
It'll be fine. Following those basic rules and 2.2 is no sweat.
Don't let people scare you.

[phillj]

Count me among the great number of displeased users. I loved my phone right up until the update completely wrecked it.

Before you think that I am exaggerating, consider the plethora of issues I encountered immediately following the install:

-I lost 90% of my contacts after the upgrade. The few remaining contacts were lost when the techs got ahold of my phone.

-Apps run continuously, which causes my battery to be completely depleted within half a day. Compare that to the almost 2 days of battery life I used to get.

-Orientation issues when turning the phone. A good descriptor would be 'confused' for this problem. The phone acted like it had no idea where to go. Back and forth, back and forth.

-Rampant scrolling issues.

-Gmail was the only email that worked after the update.

-The phone would no longer sync with my 2010 Ford truck.

Sprint Verizon did a hard reset last night and left me with a partial phone. Most everything is working properly now even though I lost all of my contacts, pictures, and music. And forget about using an Exchange email client if my phone is any indicator. Finally, my battery life is still suspect since there are 15 apps running in the background. I even downloaded the Advanced Task Killer Froyo but even it won't kill the apps. I do hard stops and the apps still run.

Suffice it to say that you do not own this phone after 2.2 is installed - It owns you. I hate to say it but I'm tempted to root it so that I am in control of the phone....

[y0diggity]

I'm happy with the update. My phone has none of the described problems. Battery life isn't any worse than it was before the update. The items seen in task killer are a non-issue, I don't even use a TK. Never have, never will. Although many here seem to believe that they know more than those who created the OS, I'm not in that category. I will assume that they they do - in fact - know a little more than I do about their product than I do, until I'm able to build my own OS and have it loaded exclusively on a massive line of flagship handsets. For now, I'll go with their advice.

Anyhoooo... As I said, no issues with the Froyo update.

[vglass]

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y0diggity wrote:

I'm happy with the update. My phone has none of the described problems. Battery life isn't any worse than it was before the update. The items seen in task killer are a non-issue, I don't even use a TK. Never have, never will. Although many here seem to believe that they know more than those who created the OS, I'm not in that category. I will assume that they they do - in fact - know a little more than I do about their product than I do, until I'm able to build my own OS and have it loaded exclusively on a massive line of flagship handsets. For now, I'll go with their advice.

Anyhoooo... As I said, no issues with the Froyo update.

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I certainly do not pretend to know more about the OS than the developers, I'm not sure how that even is applicable.  If your phone is acting up or not working than someone telling you are wrong does not make it so.  As far as task killer goes, I do not know if all the apps now showing on task killer are impacting battery life or not.  But I do know that my phone jumps from screen to screen without being touched, it does jump around from folder to folder in e-mail, it is noticeably slower on the internet, etc... than before, and the battery is definitely draining quicker and charging slower.  Obviously there are issues out there, the title of this overall site is Droid Incredible not issues with update, yet there is almost nothing else being posted.  I have never posted on this site ever, the only reason I came here was because of the issues I have been having.  Whether it's the majority or minority, it is very clear there are significant issues.  It took about a week after the "upgrade" before my phone starting acting up, so I strongly suspect that once all Incredible users have "upgraded" and have had it running for a week or so these post will grow significantly. 

[marky2mark]

As far as the phone jumping from screen to screen, try cleaning out the optical joystick.  This happens to me sometimes if a piece of lint or something gets in there from my pocket.

[y0diggity]

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vglass wrote:

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y0diggity wrote:

I'm happy with the update. My phone has none of the described problems. Battery life isn't any worse than it was before the update. The items seen in task killer are a non-issue, I don't even use a TK. Never have, never will. Although many here seem to believe that they know more than those who created the OS, I'm not in that category. I will assume that they they do - in fact - know a little more than I do about their product than I do, until I'm able to build my own OS and have it loaded exclusively on a massive line of flagship handsets. For now, I'll go with their advice.

Anyhoooo... As I said, no issues with the Froyo update.

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I certainly do not pretend to know more about the OS than the developers, I'm not sure how that even is applicable.  If your phone is acting up or not working than someone telling you are wrong does not make it so.  As far as task killer goes, I do not know if all the apps now showing on task killer are impacting battery life or not.  But I do know that my phone jumps from screen to screen without being touched, it does jump around from folder to folder in e-mail, it is noticeably slower on the internet, etc... than before, and the battery is definitely draining quicker and charging slower.  Obviously there are issues out there, the title of this overall site is Droid Incredible not issues with update, yet there is almost nothing else being posted.  I have never posted on this site ever, the only reason I came here was because of the issues I have been having.  Whether it's the majority or minority, it is very clear there are significant issues.  It took about a week after the "upgrade" before my phone starting acting up, so I strongly suspect that once all Incredible users have "upgraded" and have had it running for a week or so these post will grow significantly. 

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First of all, I don't recall accusing you of being one of those folks who presume to know more than the dev's. In fact, I don't recall even considering your previous post at all in the above-quoted reply. But thanks for taking a ride on the way-to-sensitive bus.

Second of all, I've been doing this whole mobile-y gadget-y thing for a very very long time and without fail, when an update comes, the forums for that product will invariably be filled with people who are having problems with said update. If you look back through the Android forums here and on any of the other boards that pertain to Android devices and search posts during the time period directly after an update, you will hear the exact same things. As King Solomon said - there is nothing new under the sun. I truly wish you weren't having the issues you are having, and it's a bad deal, but the title of the thread is "Who IS happy with 2.2?" I am. I'm perfectly happy with it. I love it, in fact. I'm glad I upgraded early via the manual update so I didn't have to wait. And you know what? If I DID have problems with it, I'd spend more time researching the problem and trying various solutions to make it better and I'd spend less time complaining on the forums in every single new post that comes up about it, as if no one read your same post a hundred times already throughout the forums. And if I were new to the forums, I wouldnt start off my experience there with an angry threatening flame of the phone, the company and everything that has to do with it. Sometimes we have to do things ourselves and have to stop relying on the company that sold the item to give us a solution. And sometimes those solutions have to be drastic, but they'll work and they'll make it better.

Not saying that this applies to you, but I'm just throwing it out there for ya.

[vglass]

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y0diggity wrote:

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vglass wrote:

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y0diggity wrote:

I'm happy with the update. My phone has none of the described problems. Battery life isn't any worse than it was before the update. The items seen in task killer are a non-issue, I don't even use a TK. Never have, never will. Although many here seem to believe that they know more than those who created the OS, I'm not in that category. I will assume that they they do - in fact - know a little more than I do about their product than I do, until I'm able to build my own OS and have it loaded exclusively on a massive line of flagship handsets. For now, I'll go with their advice.

Anyhoooo... As I said, no issues with the Froyo update.

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I certainly do not pretend to know more about the OS than the developers, I'm not sure how that even is applicable.  If your phone is acting up or not working than someone telling you are wrong does not make it so.  As far as task killer goes, I do not know if all the apps now showing on task killer are impacting battery life or not.  But I do know that my phone jumps from screen to screen without being touched, it does jump around from folder to folder in e-mail, it is noticeably slower on the internet, etc... than before, and the battery is definitely draining quicker and charging slower.  Obviously there are issues out there, the title of this overall site is Droid Incredible not issues with update, yet there is almost nothing else being posted.  I have never posted on this site ever, the only reason I came here was because of the issues I have been having.  Whether it's the majority or minority, it is very clear there are significant issues.  It took about a week after the "upgrade" before my phone starting acting up, so I strongly suspect that once all Incredible users have "upgraded" and have had it running for a week or so these post will grow significantly. 

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First of all, I don't recall accusing you of being one of those folks who presume to know more than the dev's. In fact, I don't recall even considering your previous post at all in the above-quoted reply. But thanks for taking a ride on the way-to-sensitive bus.

Second of all, I've been doing this whole mobile-y gadget-y thing for a very very long time and without fail, when an update comes, the forums for that product will invariably be filled with people who are having problems with said update. If you look back through the Android forums here and on any of the other boards that pertain to Android devices and search posts during the time period directly after an update, you will hear the exact same things. As King Solomon said - there is nothing new under the sun. I truly wish you weren't having the issues you are having, and it's a bad deal, but the title of the thread is "Who IS happy with 2.2?" I am. I'm perfectly happy with it. I love it, in fact. I'm glad I upgraded early via the manual update so I didn't have to wait. And you know what? If I DID have problems with it, I'd spend more time researching the problem and trying various solutions to make it better and I'd spend less time complaining on the forums in every single new post that comes up about it, as if no one read your same post a hundred times already throughout the forums. And if I were new to the forums, I wouldnt start off my experience there with an angry threatening flame of the phone, the company and everything that has to do with it. Sometimes we have to do things ourselves and have to stop relying on the company that sold the item to give us a solution. And sometimes those solutions have to be drastic, but they'll work and they'll make it better.

Not saying that this applies to you, but I'm just throwing it out there for ya.

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[MKInc]

Well, I was anxiously awaiting the 2.2 upgrade, but now that I have it, I don't like what Verizon has done to it.

I did a factory reset and cleared memory on the phone and sd card before the install.

After the 2.2 update, I now have a lot of applications that I don't want that insist on starting themselves up on boot, and even if I go to app manager and force close them, they restart again.

Amazon MP3  - I don't have an account, why am I forced to run the app?

Backup Assistant - okay, I can live with this, but it isn't really necessary since I have all of my google contacts up to date and that sync is working just fine. Backup Assistant is redundant, and doesn't add any additional functionality.

CityID - worthless, who cares what the city is of the caller, 95 percent of the people that call me are in my contacts, and I would rather have their picture ID than the city they are calling from.  I am NOT paying $1.95 per MONTH for this worthless stuff, but let me DISABLE it, don't force non functioning software on my phone.

Facebook for HTC Sense - I didn't enter my facebook credentials, why does this app auto launch?

Flickr - I don't have an account, don't launch  and relaunch

Footprints - don't use it, don't want it, I can't get rid of it.

Friend Stream - get rid of it

News - why does it need to run? I never launch it myself.

Peep - I don't use it, don't want it.

Skype mobile - I have a phone, why do I want a static-filled and distorted voip call, stop auto loading, go away

Stocks - don't use it, don't want it running on my phone

Weather Provider - even when I set it not to sync, it still loads, and still runs up battery time.

My battery life is not the best with the stock battery, and my extended battery will not get a full charge in the phone. Why is Verizon making us want to root the phone to get full functionality and control of our hardware?  This is what Verizon does with every decent piece of hardware they get, they put their own spyware on the phones and cripple the functionality that the manufacturer put in.. 

My wife just left our VZW family plan to get an iPhone on AT & T.  I will have to see if the rumors about VZW network superiority are true.