The Motorola Support forums have been busy with reports of the recently released Motorola DROID having intermittent main speaker issues whereby the device’s speaker will not function spontaneously, with notifications as well as ringtones only being heard through the earpiece, causing inconvenience for some using the device as an alarm clock or using the device normally.
The current solution given by other affected users is to powercycle the device to correct the bug, confirming it to be a software issue. Verizon is also exchanging devices for customers after being notified of the issue and Android support tickets have been opened up on Google Code’s dedicated Android page with no specific solution given yet.
Verizon does have a software update in the pipeline for the Motorola DROID for rollout next month, but it is not known at this time if it will address the above issue on the device.
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A decade later, I still remember VZW, bragging:
“the reason we don’t just release new units, is because we test them for extended periods of time, to make sure there are no issues”!!
As you might recall, it took SPRINT two years to finally get the Razr, because they were burned out with Motorola issues!
In their defense,
I seriously believe Motorola has “the gorgeous girl with issues” syndrome, beautiful design and yet horrible sofware and poor QC!
The design is typically beautiful, the marketing eyecatching and yet the OS is almost always counter intuitive and add to that, missing hardware parts on a range of key products, it is like there is minimal or hardly any interdepartmental coordination.
I have had countless Motorola products, they sadly have almost always disapointed me! Year after year, product after product, why can this company not get it’s act together?
They surely have lost their world marketshare and maybe even their touch.
Thank You
This is what happens when MOT lays off experienced American engineers so they can hire low-cost enginners who graduated from school 6 months ago. Karma bites MOT in the keister.
For those of you who think these types of things are specific to Motorola only….the more advanced the device, the more bugs there will be. Just take a look at the iPhone 3.1.2 release notes:
“fixes the following issues: a sporadic issue that may cause the iPhone not to wake from sleep, an intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular services until restart and fixes a bug that could cause occasional crashing during video streaming.”
All of these phones will have some issues at one time or another.
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