Dude I just signed a contract with Sprint, got a droid and its making phone calls on its own!

First of all, its calling land lines that arent free under my plan but most importantly its calling people on my contact list who l do not want to friggin talk to and explain whats goimg on! This is bs lol. Anyone else have this problem? Sprint said its a hardware issue, wants me to replace phone but it has to be a software issue because it goes through several screens and commands to make a call.

That's weird.  I would assume it's more a software issue.  My phone when I got it would repeatedly dial a contact on occasion.  You could just set it on a table and watch.  The phone self updates its software and immediately corrected the problem on its own

I have never experienced that. Then again, I am with a better company, so...

I have the old droid, and it's fairly worn down and beaten up at this point. Occasionally the screen has errors; it acts like ghost fingers are trying to do things. It didn't start doing this till fairly recently, after probably 20 or so times dropping it. I think you got yourself a lemon phone.

I have never experienced that. Then again, I am with a better company, so...

 

I doubt it has to do with the carrier. I think its the Android operating system. I know someone with a different phone through Verizon and said his does the same thing. Hate on Sprint all you want, l get a 23% discount on my bill because I pretended to be a Kroger employee hehe. Verizon is the nation's most reliable network? Who gives a crap. It's overpriced and I roam to their towers half the time anyway, absolutely free.

I had the original Droid, and got the "early upgrade" signal from Verizon, so I upgraded ASAP to the iPhone 4. The original Droid was a POS, and I went through 4 of those phones in just a year.

 

1. The headphone jacks were poorly constructed and made poor contact. One phone lasted 4 months before it broke. The replacements that they kept sending me - all used ones because the Droid was being phased out for the Droid 2/Droid X, were all used and broken in some shape or form.

2. The touch screens were unresponsive some of the time, or incorrect. e.g. Press "1" and you'd get "5."

3. Software programmed for the Droid apparently had no quality control checks. Apps like the Huffington Post and the Weather Channel would crash continuously, and the effort of going into the 'task manager' and killing them was a laborious process.

 

Got the iPhone4 to compliment my iPad and iTouch (v2 that has NEVER had an issue), and I haven't looked back.

I had a droid x on verizon and loved it. It sounds like your having a phone issue not a network issue. What model is it?

David said he had the original Droid. While the phone is no longer being sold, it is not being manufactured any longer (IIRC) for the U.S. market. Also David, don't update to 2.2.2/FRG83G - bad news as it considerably slows down the already underclocked processor :(

I have had a Droid since the first day it came out and have never had a problem (except for the couple I mention below).  The battery life is still good, even after a year of overclocking it (it's rooted).  Anyway, I believe your problem is a hardware issue, David.  So the only problems I have had with the phone are when it gets very wet.  The capacitive touch screen goes bonkers.  It will "phantom click" all over the screen, doing random crap.  One time I didn't even notice the screen was going wacky and I ended up with a deleted contact, a 15 second phone call to someone, and a text message draft with a bunch of random letters.  The only way to stop it was to pull the battery and let it dry out a little.  I'm going to guess your problem is that your touch screen is simply defective.

 

By the way, I've known about 10 people that had the original Droid, and none of them have had any problems.  Both my wife and I drop our phones much more than we should and both our phones are still in great shape.  I guarantee you an iPhone would have a cracked screen by now (3 of my friends have cracked their iPhone screens in the last year).

 

PS - I think it's ridiculous this thread is named "The Android Scam" considering the millions of happy Android users there are out there.

David said he had the original Droid. While the phone is no longer being sold, it is not being manufactured any longer (IIRC) for the U.S. market. Also David, don't update to 2.2.2/FRG83G - bad news as it considerably slows down the already underclocked processor :(

 

The OG Droid on the Sprint network?

OG Droid, haha. I like that. I call all Android based phones droids. Smartphone just sounds stupid and that word needs to go away. I have the Optimus, its lower grade compared to some others they had but this was free with a contract. Maybe Ill swap it out or fork out a little bit more for a better phone. They give you 30 days to decide. I don't doubt the iphone's superiority, but I never thought I would ever end up with a phone that starts calling random contacts! It's possessed! This phone needs a damn exorcism.

First generation iphones have that problem too

You don't have a Droid you have an LG Optimus running the Android OS. The LG Optimus is free with Sprint for a reason. Its running at 600 MHZ tops. Which is not enough to run the most recent upgrade of froyo 2.2. So it runs a shitty version of it. Lay out some $ for the EVO or the Shift and your problems will go away.

Drop a couple extra bucks and get the Epic 4g or Evo4g.... Your android experience will improve dramatically

Dude its a phone, I don't even have any use for most Android apps and features. If If I upgrade it'll be for future ompatibility. My friends Droid Global 2 had the same dialing issue.

Dude its a phone, I don't even have any use for most Android apps and features. If If I upgrade it'll be for future ompatibility. My friends Droid Global 2 had the same dialing issue.

 

A phone isn't a phone.  If you're gonna complain about general crappiness of it, you can't compare a free bottom-of-the-line Android phone to an expensive Apple phone.  That's the beauty of Android.  You can be cheap and get a free craptacular phone if you want, or you can splurge and get something like the Thunderbolt.  You have choices.  With Apple it's nothing or spend a ton and get what they want you to have.

 

Speaking of things I've found a use for on Android, the Amazon Cloud Player is a HUGE 1-up over anything the iPhone offers right now as far as playing music is concerned.

I should get a better phone. Especially since lm paying extra for the good data package. Btw, I am not joking. The manager told me to tell his sales rep simply that I work for Kroger. No proof or anything and I'm getting 23% off my total bills :-D Take advantage.

I should get a better phone.

 

And with that, this thread is VIRTUALLY over :D!

Can someone tell me what "rooted" means? I've seen this referenced on a few threads. I am VERY new to owning a smartphone (I have a droid X) so be gentle with me. I was trying to remove stupid programs like the blockbuster thing and the madden football thing but you can't remove them. I found online somewhere someone said to "root" your phone and you can remove them, but I don't know what that means.

 

Be gentle - I've only had it for about 3 weeks and it's taken me all this time to get my photobucket to work right. The quick upload from the gallery didn't work until I downloaded the free photobucket app. I wish somoene would have told me that, but I figured it out eventually.

Can someone tell me what "rooted" means? I've seen this referenced on a few threads. I am VERY new to owning a smartphone (I have a droid X) so be gentle with me. I was trying to remove stupid programs like the blockbuster thing and the madden football thing but you can't remove them. I found online somewhere someone said to "root" your phone and you can remove them, but I don't know what that means.

 

Rooted means you're a tech geek. :)

 

Seriously, it's not very hard to do.  It basically means loading something onto your phone which gives you access to things you weren't really meant to have access to (which is why you can do things like remove preloaded apps that they don't want you to remove).  If you do decide to do it, know that it's easier to do than even the instructions may make it seem, but you should learn how to undo it ("take it back to stock") should you need to take it back to the store for some reason.

^ To that point, RnR, don't root the phone unless there's a real reason you want/need to. It immediately voids the warranty on the phone.

OHHHHH. Yeah, I don't want to void the warranty, thanks.

 

I don't understand why they would make it impossible for you to remove apps you don't want. that is just stupid to me. People are all over the internet complaining about the stupid, worthless blockbuster app that doesn't work right and that they cant' remove.

^ To that point, RnR, don't root the phone unless there's a real reason you want/need to. It immediately voids the warranty on the phone.

 

That's why I suggested learning how to return it to stock.  If you reload the original software, there's no way for them to know you ever rooted it.  Sure, there are cases where you could get screwed, but how often does a manufacturer's warranty actually cover your broken phone?  If they want to be jerks about it, they'll say you broke it and it's not covered, and if they want to be nice about it (which has actually been my experience at Verizon stores most of the time) they don't even care you rooted it and will replace it anyways, sometimes with an obligatory "you aren't really supposed to do that".

I actually bought an extended warranty, so I would expect it to cover a lot of things. I'm just not enough of a tech geek to be confident about doing something like this, but I do appreciate the explanation.

I actually bought an extended warranty, so I would expect it to cover a lot of things. I'm just not enough of a tech geek to be confident about doing something like this, but I do appreciate the explanation.

 

If you aren't comfortable with it, it's likely a good idea not to do it.  There are some cool things you can do, but not nearly cool enough (especially if you aren't a tech geek) to void an extended warranty.  I don't usually think of that aspect since I hate extended warranties.

Dude its a phone, I don't even have any use for most Android apps and features. If If I upgrade it'll be for future ompatibility. My friends Droid Global 2 had the same dialing issue.

 

We call that butt or drunk dialing :)

 

But it's not just a phone, per se. It's a music player, web browser, social media gadget, and an interface for all things in between. Heck, my iPhone can even serve as a meat thermometer for the iGrill Bluetooth attachment! If you are going to get a Droid, it's not because you use it purely as a phone - there are many other options for just that. You are buying it for something more. I don't have the most use for about 99% of iPhone apps, but yet it's there and I take advantage of what I have and need.

 

I'd have them keep replacing the phone. Take it to a different store and get a different opinion - and just keep shopping around until you can get someone to give you a new (e.g. used) phone. And keep doing that until your early upgrade clause comes open.