Motorola DROID and HTC DROID Eris OTA updates rumored to hit December 11?
We’ve barely had any time to breathe since the DROID and Eris have been released, and we’re already hearing that updates may be on their way. These over-the-air updates are said to fix a number of issues with the new phones. So far, it seems that Verizon is fully aware of the bugs and other known problems with the device and it is making sure that these are resolved before snarky nerds get a chance to bite. Some of the issues we’ve heard are hardware related, and some are software related which could imply that Verizon is working closely with Google to come up with fixes. For the complete list as well as what Verizon intends to do with them, hit the jump!
Thanks, Tarun!
Read (DROID docs)
Read (Eris docs)
Boy Genius,
It seems alot of us are having issues with atrocious battery life. I myself have taken almost every measure to try to improve it (including running factory default Droid). Is your review unit different than in anyway to the production units? I bought two Droids based off of reviews of the battery life by your site and others.
Thanks in advance.
I have great battery life. Depending on usage I charge every night or every other night. It’s never died on me yet, but has gone below 15% on a heavy usage day by the time I put it down for the night.
A temporary workaround for the echo issue is to switch to speaker phone mode and back. That fixes the issue for my brother-in-law’s droid.
YEY! autofocus fix!
Unbelievable — the Droid doesn’t support Yahoo mail even thru POP3 — totally lame — Google should be rammed about this –
Yahoo works on mine, just found a few steps online and now it works perfectly fine
Could you send me the online instructions to get yahoo mail on the droid.
or you could use gmail….. the phone is integrated with google for a reason.
is it just me or is the MILESTONE and the DROID look like the same phone? how come they aren’t having record breaking sales on either?
They are the same phone.
http://phandroid.com/2009/11/10/motorola-milestone-official-for-telus-early-2010-launch/
Sales of 100,000 in the opening weekend is slow???
http://phandroid.com/2009/11/10/100000-droids-and-counting/
I really cant wait for this . I am seeing more and more buggyness in my driod as i use it for starters the camera is horrible . Sad because it has the change to be a great camera if it wernt for the issues
Here is my droid trick of the day
http://www.guysfromqueens.com/?p=765
How bout oh i don’t know, activating the multi touch capabilities the hardware has????
@ Doug,
please post how you got Yahoo mail to work on yours!
Thank you.
I think they should include a global font size option. The spare parts app seems to have one but it does not seem to work.
I have been talking to alot of Iphone owners and non of them would switch to a droid they are happy with the phone that have. But many people that would of gone to ATT are sticking with verizon and that was the point of this . I think it will only get better with time.
http://www.guysfromqueens.com/?p=598
Still considering whether to buy or not. That echo was noticeable tonight when I tested the Droid and Eris.
Anyone have any comments about voice quality for the receiving party? One of the Blackberrys I used as a comparison seemed to have much better sound.
When recording video there is no video light for recording at night…nor is there an option to activate it…my Samsung Moment by Sprint does it and it has the option…not sure if this is because Droid has 2.0 and the option to activate the light was taken off in this version…
Has anyone had an issue with sound ONLY coming through the earpiece speaker? Sometimes when playing music then after a call comes through, all sound would come through the ear speaker instead of loudspeaker. Sometimes it won’t even happen after playing music.
Hopefully they fix this in the Dec. 22 fix, but it doesn’t seem like it from the document release. Hopefully at least in the Jan. update.
Is there any way to increase font size,,,that works?
When you are in the “I need reading glasses cause I’m in my 40’s”phase of life…the text is really tiny and annoying because I dont want to have to find my “specs” just to see who is calling! HELP!
username: (your acct)@yahoo.com
imap server: imap.mail.yahoo.com
server port: 143
smtp server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
security type: none
server port: 587
They need an official bulletin like this for the Hero from Sprint.
But are they going to fix the Bluetooth headset issue.
I also know that the droid will not work with the Ford sync. It stinks that it doesn’t work with my MINI Cooper.