Saturday, July 30, 2011

Software Update Causes Headaches For Some Droid Customers

A program refurbish is ostensible to broach the ultimate and paramount features to your device. It's not ostensible to ravage your device. And nonetheless that's precisely what happened to a number of customers who received the many new refurbish to their Droid X phones.

In early June, Verizon began rolling out Android working network chronicle 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) to the Droid X, that formerly ran Android 2.2 (Froyo). Shortly thereafter, the grievances proposed rolling in on Motorola's online patron summary house .

Complaints about the refurbish spanned the whole gamut. Customers gifted pointless reboots, behind beginning up times, enervated 3G connectivity, marked down set of keys functionality; the list goes on and on. In two of the update's many gross offenses, a number of users seems to have mislaid the capability to store meeting data locally on the phone itself.

"In my view, it takes divided more than it gives, and it attempts to levy a server-based model for contacts administration that has proven to be a catastrophe for me, my family and my business," a undone Droid X owners wrote .

Google has ceaselessly faced problems gripping all the not similar Android-powered handsets up to date on the ultimate chronicle of its program . For a few phones, it's simply an situation of the hardware being as well aged to run the newest Android release. For others, the reasoning isn't as clear. It is value noting, however, that manufacturers have reduction inducement to persevere firm resources to refurbish comparison gadgets rsther than than outlay time on newer ones. It's unfavorable to see a program refurbish do more damages than good, mainly when a firm provides a program refurbish to a phone that was expelled over a year ago.

In a lengthy, downright post, a user on the authorized Motorola summary house web site has documented all the reported problems related with the update: 80 not similar problems to date.

Verizon did not right away reply to a solicit for comment.

Motorola issued a matter to Wired.com Friday morning: "We've remarkable the forum feedback, and you are working keenly with Verizon on an refurbish for these users."

An authorized Motorola forums judge settled multi-part times over the past two months that the firm is seeking in to a program fix, but no authorized timeline has been released.

The kicker to all of this? You can't simply hurl back to the previous chronicle of Android without using third-party software. That means voiding your phone's guaranty , that isn't precisely a renouned option.

So sadly for undone Droid X owners, they'll have to fool around the watchful diversion with Verizon and Motorola until a put together is expelled " or bombard out the money for a new phone. Was that the outline all along?

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