Ive been DROIDED!
Mainstreet
Enthusiast - Level 2

Ok I took the bait. I traded my trusty Env Voyager for a Droid. This is a phone, in my opinion, that does many things...but none of them well. This one should have stayed in development a while longer. Making a simple phone call is the most difficult thing there is to do on it and answering a call is simply impossible. The touch screen is either too sensitive and always clicking on something you hadnt intended to or wont work at all. And dont even get me started on battery life. For what I paid for this thing, I could have bought a new laptop! First thing tomorrow, its going back and Im thinking of just going back to the Voyager....although that new Devoure looks good. THIS is most certainly an unhappy customer and Ive been a loyal Verizon customer for 10 years.:smileymad:

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TheGreatOne
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Mainstreet wrote:

Ok I took the bait. I traded my trusty Env Voyager for a Droid. This is a phone, in my opinion, that does many things...but none of them well. This one should have stayed in development a while longer. Making a simple phone call is the most difficult thing there is to do on it and answering a call is simply impossible. The touch screen is either too sensitive and always clicking on something you hadnt intended to or wont work at all. And dont even get me started on battery life. For what I paid for this thing, I could have bought a new laptop! First thing tomorrow, its going back and Im thinking of just going back to the Voyager....although that new Devoure looks good. THIS is most certainly an unhappy customer and Ive been a loyal Verizon customer for 10 years.:smileymad:


 

I suppose everyone is entitled to their own view. About the battery life,there are ways to improve it. For instance,you can get the app called Power Manager Full. You can extend battery life.There are also some tricks you can do to. See this article-->Keep Devices Going There have also been threads on here that talk about how to extend the battery longer.

 

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Mainstreet
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I cant find any place in the setting to change the sensitivity of the touch screen. Is there such a place? Part of the problem Im having is that it WONT let me answer incoming calls by touching the answer button...but if I touch the darn thing anyplace else at any other time, apps open up and screens start doing things they shouldnt. Ive had the phone for 4 days now and have not been able to answer a single call in that time. I work in TV news...I got to get my calls !

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lalalamesss
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Mainstreet wrote:

I cant find any place in the setting to change the sensitivity of the touch screen. Is there such a place?

Not that I can find.

 Part of the problem Im having is that it WONT let me answer incoming calls by touching the answer button...

To answer a phone call on an Android device, you have to slide to answer.

but if I touch the darn thing anyplace else at any other time, apps open up and screens start doing things they shouldnt. Ive had the phone for 4 days now and have not been able to answer a single call in that time. I work in TV news...I got to get my calls !


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I know people get tired of reading this, but I have not had any problems with my Droid.  I'm convinced that the majority of problems people have are due to user error.  Some things about the Droid are not intuitive.

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ksxox10
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jimfitzgerald wrote:

I know people get tired of reading this, but I have not had any problems with my Droid.  I'm convinced that the majority of problems people have are due to user error.  Some things about the Droid are not intuitive.


That's funny. Some problems are caused by user error, but clearly some Droids are defective. We have heard repeatedly about how you have had ZERO problems with your Droid and your work around for Bluetooth. That's great, however some people are truly having major problems with their phones, and it isn't due to user error.

 

{please keep your posts courteous}

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Thanks for your kind words.  I am sure there are some defective Droids out there.  I'm still convinced most of the problems reported are user error.  I'm entitled to express my opinion without receiving personal attacks.

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AFguy
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I agree with Jim. I think the majority of people's problems are user error. Android isnt for everyone. Esp. one who cannot even slide to answer a call.  Perhaps a simple featured phone would be best for him/her.  The problem is that everybody wants a smartphone these days when all they ever had were simple phones.  If you do not know how to use the device, take it back and get something simpler.  Dont come on here and tell us how you are a loyal verizon customer who is leaving to go to another carrier.  Who cares?!?! What do you think its going to be like with their smartphones?  Some people need to stick with a simple phone.  Thats all i got to say.  

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reallyniceguy
Contributor - Level 3
So if you have been with the company for 10 years? Why not just return the thing and go back to your old phone? Isnt the phone and not the network thats causing the problem? Verizon gives us 30 days to return the phones if we dont like em.. right? I would recommend something similar to what you had, it looks like the droid may not be for you? Mine works just fine as so as many others here.
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Mainstreet
Enthusiast - Level 2

Well I came here hoping to find some help...not snarky answers from verizons unpaid nerd brigade.

 

I can tell you this, I have 7 lines on my account. I spend over $500 a MONTH on my cell service between the 3 personal and 4 business phones I have. I would have appricated a little more effort on verizons part to make sure the phone was engineered for real people, not just cubicle dwelling facebookers. The touch screen has an issue, plain and simple. I cant touch the phone anywhere without it opening up apps and changing screens. Today when I tried to retrieve an incoming text message, it opened up a weather app....and thats all it will open when I try to open up the messaging app. So something is most certainly NOT RIGHT.

YES I will take it back and go back to my old voyager....until my contract ends and then I will walk my $500 a month down the street to the competitor. Small potatoes for sure in the grand plan but its my $500 and I can always go to Sprint.

 

The one other thing I would change in this phone, since I am not a constant facebooker etc, is that I'd put in the option of going to a regular sms texting format rather than the "threaded" format the droid uses. I find it difficult to figure out what message is the newest one.

 

To those here who stepped in to defend this obviously **bleep** customer, thank you.

 

To Verizon: Its my business to put the news on tv...you better hope I never have a reason to review this phone for a story. I might be temped to forget my journalistic ethics.

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Pull down the notification screen.  You will see your most recent messages there.  The one at the bottom of the thread is the most recent.  It's really not difficult.

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supitsmike
Specialist - Level 2

Mainstreet wrote:

Well I came here hoping to find some help...not snarky answers from verizons unpaid nerd brigade.


 Only as much of a nerd as you are for posting here.

 


I can tell you this, I have 7 lines on my account. I spend over $500 a MONTH on my cell service between the 3 personal and 4 business phones I have. I would have appricated a little more effort on verizons part to make sure the phone was engineered for real people, not just cubicle dwelling facebookers. The touch screen has an issue, plain and simple. I cant touch the phone anywhere without it opening up apps and changing screens. Today when I tried to retrieve an incoming text message, it opened up a weather app....and thats all it will open when I try to open up the messaging app. So something is most certainly NOT RIGHT.


First and foremost, every phone has it's bad eggs. Perhaps you were just unlucky, and with that attitude I can understand why Karma might've wanted to mess around with you a bit. I have had only one Droid, and it worked beautifully. Does that make me a cubicle dwelling (says the "journalist") facebooker? No. In fact I fancy Youtube a lot, and I just so happen to run because it's fun for me.

 


YES I will take it back and go back to my old voyager....until my contract ends and then I will walk my $500 a month down the street to the competitor. Small potatoes for sure in the grand plan but its my $500 and I can always go to Sprint.

 

The one other thing I would change in this phone, since I am not a constant facebooker etc, is that I'd put in the option of going to a regular sms texting format rather than the "threaded" format the droid uses. I find it difficult to figure out what message is the newest one.


You would go to the best Provider to possibly the worst one all in spite of this? lolokay.

 


 

To those here who stepped in to defend this obviously **bleep** customer, thank you.

 

To Verizon: Its my business to put the news on tv...you better hope I never have a reason to review this phone for a story. I might be temped to forget my journalistic ethics.


I'm sure that if you were any reputable journalist that's not working for your local news channel (which I kind of lol at the thought of), then you'd know that your integrity means everything when working as a journalist.

 

Judging by your lack of understanding of technology, I'd say that you're not too qualified to go and do a 'real' review of the phone. And were you really reviewing the phone, then you'd know that pitting your *very* small opinion against top websites such as Engadget, Gizmodo, or PCWorld would have little to no effect on Verizon.

 

But I welcome you to try anyway, it'll be amusing to see what kind of serious damage you can do.

 

Step back folks. This guy is serious business and he means it. Watch as he crucifies the Droid with his superior knowledge of smartph- Oh wait hey. Is that a Voyager I see your pocket?

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AFguy
Contributor - Level 2

LOL @ supitsmike. good one. i love it.  :smileyvery-happy:

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DroidDaddy
Newbie

look dude, if your a journalist 1. you wouldnt be on verizons forums threatening to give them a bad reveiw ( which im sure they could care less ) 2. like the others above i beleive you need to learn how to use your droid, and if you cant learn then you and your outdated voyager deserve each other 3. the phone itself is amazing, ive never had a phone that was so responsive and so fast browsing and just day to day use. if i were you id return the droid for another one and try that, if that doesnt work then maybe you should use a Motorola startac..

 

 

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Droidzoid
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I don't have to slide mine just push answer button left bottom.

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AFguy
Contributor - Level 2

Were referring to the motorola droid, not the droid eris.  

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