Bad home screen redraws? - Motorola Droid RAZR

I'm running .181 rooted, and when I hit the home button, all I get is my wallpaper for 5 seconds, then my beautiful Widgets clock pops up, then after maybe 7 seconds all my apps reappear. For a phone of this magnitude I think this is unacceptable. Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
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Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.

mkarps said:
Factory reset? I don't think I've ever had it happen on this phone.
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Its been done multiple times to get me here.
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I've noticed the same thing after upgrading to 181. Honestly I would go back if I could as my phone isn't nearly as stable as it was.
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Yea,I've never had it happen on stock nor any of the ics leaks except for the most recent one (.210) kinda really sucks:-/
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Perhaps try forcing launcher to stay in memory? Or maybe its related to 2d hw acceleration option?

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[Q] unresonsive screen [Solved]

I have this issue where my phone screen will randomly become unresponsive. To get it back all I have to do is shut the screen off and back on and the it will accept my input. The menu, home, back, and search buttons will still work just the screen wont respont to me touching it. It may happen several time in a few minutes. Then again i might go a day it only happen once. I dont recall this happening on unrooted 2.2.2 but Im not 100% sure. It does do it 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, and it has done it on Liberty, Eclipse, and Molten. If anyone else has run into this problem and has a way to fix it i sure would appreciate the help.
I have the same issue. Its a deffective screen. No matter what rom you are ob it will be there. And if your is like mine it was there on 2.2.2 unrooted.
Answer to it is getting a referb. But what i learned on referbs from moto (i went through 6 razr2 in one 1 hr never left the verizon store. One worse then the other) so if thats all your worring about then id say put up with it you could get one thats even more of a pos.
Its only annoying to me when it acts up while im typing a long txt or playing a game other then that its two presses and a swipe and all better (and mine happens at least 6 times a day everyday) consider yourself lucky you could have my pos dx2.
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Ok. Its not to bad I mean Ive kinda gotten use to it. Its just annoying as hell cause it always happens at the worst time.
Mine does this too from time to time. Same fix.. Turn screen off and then back on and all is well again. Hasnt done it a long time though
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Yatkoos said:
Mine does this too from time to time. Same fix.. Turn screen off and then back on and all is well again. Hasnt done it a long time though
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If mine did that more then once I would be in with Verizon getting a replacement...not a refurb. No way would I deal with a unresponsive screen but mine is only a few weeks old. If you deal with them right you might get a new phone out of it. The in store employees have always treated me well.
Over the course of 6 months back when I had my Samsung Rogue they exchanged it for a new one 3 times until I got a new one. After about a month or so it would start to randomly reboot.
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If mine did that more then once I would be in with Verizon getting a replacement...not a refurb. No way would I deal with a unresponsive screen but mine is only a few weeks old. If you deal with them right you might get a new phone out of it. The in store employees have always treated me well.
Over the course of 6 months back when I had my Samsung Rogue they exchanged it for a new one 3 times until I got a new one. After about a month or so it would start to randomly reboot.
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Its been so rare for me it hasnt bothered me enough to worry about. Ive also had poor luck convincing people problems exist when I can't recreate them on demand.
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Yatkoos said:
Its been so rare for me it hasnt bothered me enough to worry about. Ive also had poor luck convincing people problems exist when I can't recreate them on demand.
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I could never get it to reboot in there so I would explain the issue and politely suggest that I should switch to a different carrier since I cant depend on my phone and it worked every time.
I might go up to the store and see what they will do. At the worst im still stuck with the phone till I upgrade.
This sounds like a defective screen. You should look into getting a replacement.
I might go up to the store and see what they will do. At the worst im still stuck with the phone till I upgrade.
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I would go in....if you play it right you might even be able to talk yourself into an early upgrade.
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Mine does this quite regularly, and I have issues typing sometimes because of this. It's incredibly aggravating, but I'm getting a GNex soon, so I'm not too worried about it anymore.
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I would go in....if you play it right you might even be able to talk yourself into an early upgrade.
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Now that alone would make it all worth while. Now I've got to give it a shot.
If my phone started doing that I would have been at the store before I even thought about making this thread lol.
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pacman377 said:
Now that alone would make it all worth while. Now I've got to give it a shot.
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Shmooz them.with all the I love the network. Ut this screen just drives me nuts and blah blah. Then shmooz into you need a replacement cuz you've only had is x amount of days...then if they agree to it just bring up you know when I got this phone this other phone wasn't out and I would got that one. Instead of giving me a new one how about I just pay the difference with the upgrade cost like if I just upgraded now instead. I mean a sale is a sale and im just trying to have a good phone I don't trust this one not to brake again. Maybe throw in id hate to have to go to att or sprint for a good phone.
You'll be golden
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I like it. I like it a lot. Of course this never worked with sprint. But who knows. Razer here I come? Uh.... Maybe.... I hope.
03civicdx said:
If my phone started doing that I would have been at the store before I even thought about making this thread lol.
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This phone is a replacement. My first x2 had an unfortunate accident at the river. This one wasn't stock for an hour before I was getting eclipse on it. So I was asking to be sure it couldn't be related to the things I had changed on my phone. If I had be certain of this yes I would have gone directly to Verizon.
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This phone is a replacement. My first x2 had an unfortunate accident at the river. This one wasn't stock for an hour before I was getting eclipse on it. So I was asking to be sure it couldn't be related to the things I had changed on my phone. If I had be certain of this yes I would have gone directly to Verizon.
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One sure fire way to be certain is to sbf to stock. If the problem continues then you know its hardware related.
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03civicdx said:
One sure fire way to be certain is to sbf to stock. If the problem continues then you know its hardware related.
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+1
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03civicdx said:
One sure fire way to be certain is to sbf to stock. If the problem continues then you know its hardware related.
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I have sbf multiple times since I've noticed it. It has done it every time, and every rom, even when i went and mixed and matched between a couple different roms. So from what I've heard it is deffinetly hardware related, which is why i asked. So to all of you who have helped me, a big thank you.
I've had this happen too. Not hardware related though. In my case it was caused by Launcher Pro. Switched to Go Launcher and haven't had a problem since. Might be something to look into if you use LP too.
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Browser and other stuff not smooth

I have to say that I love this phone, but the browser is almost unusable because it is so laggy. I've noticed that this phone needs hardware acceleration really bad...
The home screen isn't the smoothest either.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
And pinch to zoom in the browser is a joke. Its laggier than a single core phone.
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speedy0339 said:
I have to say that I love this phone, but the browser is almost unusable because it is so laggy. I've noticed that this phone needs hardware acceleration really bad...
The home screen isn't the smoothest either.
Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
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Have you tried restarting your phone, freeing up some RAM, or deleting some apps that may be giving the phone lag?
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yea probably some other app trashed your phone. sometimes the only way to get the performance back is to hard reset the phone. gosh Android is starting to feel a lot like windows...
You might also have to factory reset to fix the problem. Are up to date on your firmware?
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Yeah. Even when I played with the maxx at the store it just isn't smooth. I had a gs2, then an iphone, and now this. I just think I'm so used to the iphone smoothness that I just have to get back to the Android feel of things. And no I'm not an apple fan boy, the only reason i got the iphone was because sprint didnt have 4g in my area and i just wanted to try it. Now that i finally got a good service, i had to go back to the good os.
I've noticed even scrolling in apps, that the phone isn't very smooth for a dual core. I kind of expected more.
Does anyone know if ICS and hardware acceleration will fix this? Or maybe the soak test update coming whenever it comes?
I have no such problems. All my apps open almost instantly, and I don't get any lag when I scroll. I don't know what to tell you guys. Restarting your phones, update your firmware, kill some processes, and say 3 hail Marys.
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Leviathan26 said:
I have no such problems. All my apps open almost instantly, and I don't get any lag when I scroll. I don't know what to tell you guys. Restarting your phones, update your firmware, kill some processes, and say 3 hail Marys.
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It just isn't smooth as butter like the gs2, galaxy nexus, iphone 4s
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Leviathan26 said:
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Even in apps like scrolling and stuff? Ill hard reset tonight. That's so weird...
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Leviathan26 said:
Mine is as smooth as butter though. ^_^ That's why I keep saying that I don't have any of those problems.
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Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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speedy0339 said:
Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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iPhone is very very smooth - almost as fast as amiga was. maybe you were spoiled by iPhone? i still think it's weird that all these years later with a thousand times the processing power there's still nothing as smooth scrolling as the amiga from 25 years ago.
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Are you running stock 2.3.6?
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Yes, completely stock. No root, or custom roms.
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iolinux333 said:
iPhone is very very smooth - almost as fast as amiga was. maybe you were spoiled by iPhone? i still think it's weird that all these years later with a thousand times the processing power there's still nothing as smooth scrolling as the amiga from 25 years ago.
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I guess I was just spoiled by the iphone. I love Verizon lte but this phone just isn't anywhere near as fast as the iphone.
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Get a cache cleaner. My browser began to get laggy and stopped opening pages, I looking in my cache and had over 30mb . I cleared it and it works fantastic now
stkiswr said:
Get a cache cleaner. My browser began to get laggy and stopped opening pages, I looking in my cache and had over 30mb . I cleared it and it works fantastic now
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Didn't help at all bro
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If you look at page load times the Razr will kill iOS devices every time. The scrolling jitters is due to lack of hardware acceleration in rendering- Honeycomb and newer uses OpenGL to deliver a much better experience. Yet another reason I can't wait for ICS...
MillionManMosh said:
If you look at page load times the Razr will kill iOS devices every time. The scrolling jitters is due to lack of hardware acceleration in rendering- Honeycomb and newer uses OpenGL to deliver a much better experience. Yet another reason I can't wait for ICS...
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I guess ill just have to wait or root and flash ics. I had the nexus before this but I couldn't stand the Samsung antenna and 3 hour battery life.
Thanks for explaining.
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speedy0339 said:
I guess ill just have to wait or root and flash ics. I had the nexus before this but I couldn't stand the Samsung antenna and 3 hour battery life.
Thanks for explaining.
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And the pinch to zoom in the gallery is a joke!! Its SUPER laggy.

[INFO] Motorola Droid RAZR, Droid RAZR MAXX ICS Bug Fix To Be Ready in September?

According to the site’s sources, the long-awaited ICS bug fix for the Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX may not be ready until September. That’s about a month after the original mid-August target, and if you’re counting the days with us, it is currently mid-August
http://easternmorningherald.com/motorola-droid-razr-droid-razr-maxx-ics-bug-fix-to-be-ready-in-september/1214804/
I don't have the problems they indicate. All about an update to improve what is already good.
Counting the days...I could care less!
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Very interesting as I have 2 phones that out of the blue can't keep any signal and drop sometimes for an hour and then are fine. I tried a new similar and various other things. Wonder if that will fix issues I am having.
Seems strange we've only seen a handful of leaks.
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i hope they keep to their word ics is really buggy on the razr
I have to turn my phone off and on at least every other day otherwise it will go through a bunch off apps like a slide show. Or if I'm texting it will enter a bunch of random characters on its own. It's like the screen is stuck until I reset it. Sometimes the screen doesn't respond at all.
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Look forward it~
no issues on razr maxx, ICS is smooth and fast
Battery Life did take a significant hit and I hope the bug fix does come in september.
Ics typing is a nightmare....inserts spaces randomly.
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ICS and My Razr
I have zero problems with Stock Razr Maxx 4.0.4 Rooted + some minor tweaks to the CPU, FS, and dual boot using boot manager.
Days without rebooting, unless I am messing with it in recovery, battery life is strong, and no dropped calls etc....
The only update I really need is something that makes the camera work better, picture quality is awful. Third party cams do not seem to solve the problem. Someone mentioned a thread that modifies JPEG compression, I was going to look for that today.
I haven't had one problem with my phone since the update, did you all backup your data and do a cache/ factory wipe before the updating? That's what I've always done. Even my old iphones had problems if i did a major update without wiping.
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Lately I have had signal loss.
Not update related. I moved and am in this dead zone. Walk outside the house and signal is like a rock.
+1 on full wipe.
Though smart actions does an annoying glitch but that is something with the app itself or its interaction with data switching on and off.
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pyroemaniac said:
I haven't had one problem with my phone since the update, did you all backup your data and do a cache/ factory wipe before the updating? That's what I've always done. Even my old iphones had problems if i did a major update without wiping.
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Factory wiped with matts utility. No problems here either! I do however wish I had the battery from the maxx. Only thing I don't like about this phone. Battery sucks.
no problem
i have a xt910 on android 4.0.4 and dont have problems works fine and fast.
I got new my phone razr maxx.i loaded asphalt 7 and fps is really low.game is frezzing.is anybody try this game? I have ics and eu version.
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no issues with ics here other than i lost audio once. great signal & battery on my og razr.
musti95 said:
I got new my phone razr maxx.i loaded asphalt 7 and fps is really low.game is frezzing.is anybody try this game? I have ics and eu version.
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I think we need a tegra 3 overclocked and a class 10 microsd to run asphalt 7.
Same lag here
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Got some problems with incoming SMS on my PSHAsia Razr, and the battery life is not very good on ICS. Hope this will be fixed.
Also when I turn on auto sync, the process com.google.android.[whatever] FCs. Not critical but very irritating.
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I heard that the new update could include a unlockable bootloader for the international razr /maxx so it can be included in the unlock tool.
Hopefully its true.
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Vibration on touch goes on and off.

RAZR Maxx - Verizon Wireless CDMA
I have my settings to vibrate on touch but for some reason it randomly stops vibrating and comes back randomly.
For instance, right now as I write this there is no vibration when I press the keys on the keyboard.
I noticed it after the first time I rooted the phone. After rooting everything was fine. Decided to go back to stock 211 and unroot for the time being. I was using Matts utility and it froze for some reason. It got stuck on writing the webtop part for over an hour so I knew something was not right.
I turned the phone off, closed the utility and started all over again and it went through fine. From since then I've been able to root, flash roms, revert back to stock 211 all using the utility but my vibrations act funny.
I never had the vibrations on touch turned on when I was on gingerbread so I don't know if it's just my phone or if it was the unrooting freeze or what? I never really complained about it but I would like to know if anybody else's phone does this?
try slapping the bottom of your phone against your palm (kevlar against palm) a friends razr did this and that seemed to work, it went awway after a few days
I might sell this phone and roll with something else.
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I'm experiencing the same issue as well....if didn't start until I Began using motomizer which could just be coincidence
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I have the same issue but I have not rooted it. Also, to get a temporarily fix which lasts for a minute or so, I have to shake the phone. I think the vibration motor is failing.
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It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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Thank Me Later said:
It's good to know others have the problem too. I thought my phone may have been defected or else I messed it up trying to unroot it the first time round. I might try to get the Maxx HD. But then again it's better off to wait lol, this phone game is moving too fast.
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I know. By the way can u use a headset with your phone without disconnecting or getting stuttering sounds if you move the headset connection?
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I never attempted to use a headset with my phone. I've used headphones for music and movie listening and they were all fine. I don't lose data at all when using headphones.
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I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I'll keep that in mind if I root again.
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FReQ Z said:
I had this problem too. I reloaded Arctic from scratch making sure to format cache and Dalvik and that still didnt help.
What fixed mine was booting into Safestrap Recovery, going into Advanced, and selecting Fix Permissions.
I realize this won't help the non-rooted folks.
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I tried this and it didn't help. The suggestion above (slapping the back of the phone) seems to be working, though. I wonder if my telephone (Razr i) is defective, this started after rooting and unlocking the bootloader. I tried with the GB and EU JellyBean stock ROMS, and I'm currently using this one, all with the same results, does anyone have a similar issue?
I've dealt with two buddies' RAZR phones (Original, and MAXX) and they both have failing vibrator motors. Seems like a hardware design issue. Good thing I went with the Note 2
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tested on all my custom rom (CM10.1 , AOKP , JB 4.2.1) and same issue
anybody have this issue in OTA update and updated bootloader (JB 4.1.2) ?

some problems after 4.0.4 update

Since the 4.0 OTA my phone has just been doing random crap.
1.) Locking up and rebooting at least once a day.
2.) In the middle of a phone call it will disconnect the call with whomever i was talking to, and connect me with a random person from my address book.
3.) one of the verizon junk apps (Emergency Alerts i think it is) will go off on its own, and i have never used it or set it up..
so i take it in and Im not sure if i am the only person who has been having these problems (from what the verizon rep noted, i was not the only one). they are sending me a new one , they said that the OTA made a mess on some phones, bricked others and the ones that are from the factory or newer ones are working much better.
now for the part that surprised me..take this with a grain of salt as usuall but she said that the 4.1 Jelly bean was going to be ota in about another month..
anyways, anyone else had the listed problems?
ps central us for those that are going to ask, no longer vat/city
If I do a lot of browsing, my phone will randomly scroll through random apps and open them, almost like the screen is stuck. Only way to stop is power volume down. Then it is good for a day or two, then it does it again. I am completely stock, never rooted or installed custom rom.
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cmraymond said:
If I do a lot of browsing, my phone will randomly scroll through random apps and open them, almost like the screen is stuck. Only way to stop is power volume down. Then it is good for a day or two, then it does it again. I am completely stock, never rooted or installed custom rom.
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I got my phone yesterday, and so far not a single problem and there is a difference from a phone that received the ota and one that was shipped with 4.0. one that has been shipped with it is defiantly smoother has a quicker response. im happy i sent mine in.
Do a factory reset and you will have no more problems.
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Adauth said:
Do a factory reset and you will have no more problems.
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I'll second this: the sound on my Razr cut out at times. I did a factory reset last week, and have had no problems since then.
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I have done two resets since I received the update. Didn't install any apps for a few days in case that was the culprit. Still have the issue.
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I can vouch for what cmraymond is saying, i tried repeatedly using the factory reset and nothing it would still do it. i even deleted everything i had on my sd card and even tried a diff one. no change. new phone is running great.
phrite said:
I can vouch for what cmraymond is saying, i tried repeatedly using the factory reset and nothing it would still do it. i even deleted everything i had on my sd card and even tried a diff one. no change. new phone is running great.
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So how does returning the phone work if I bought it on new egg.com. Do I go through them or can I call Verizon to do a warranty exchange. I've had the phone since March this year.
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cmraymond said:
So how does returning the phone work if I bought it on new egg.com. Do I go through them or can I call Verizon to do a warranty exchange. I've had the phone since March this year.
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If it's under factory warranty, Verizon will send you a refurb. My previous phone was a Incredible 2 that I purchased at Radio Shack, and when my LCD stopped working after about 5 months, Verizon sent me a replacement at no cost.
As a last ditch effort, you can try flashing the stock fastboot files. I'd recommend a factory reset and format of the cache partition before doing so. That way, if there was something that didn't update properly with the OTA, you're starting off with a fresh, clean install. Instructions to flash are here http://theunlockr.com/2012/01/24/how-to-restore-the-motorola-droid-razr-using-fastboot-files/, and the fastboot files are found here: http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_spyder/list.php

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