Motorola Droid X
Not pleased with FROYO 2.2
For all the FROYO hype...just not understanding or feeling the amazement. Yes, there are some nice UI upgrades (ie camera button), but ther seem to be more quirky things going on...just not sure whether these are bugs or my lack of understanding the update; please advise (I have gone from LOVING my Droid X to merely liking it)
1. When using the general search (google), on 2.1 you would get a listing olf local items (ie contacts, applications) as well as web findings, Now using google search(all) only renders web findings. You can switch to find contacts, apps, etc...however each time you do a new search you default back to google (all) which only finds web sites...no real way of doing a thorough search of all relevant information a...
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1. When using the general search (google), on 2.1 you would get a listing olf local items (ie contacts, applications) as well as web findings, Now using google search(all) only renders web findings. You can switch to find contacts, apps, etc...however each time you do a new search you default back to google (all) which only finds web sites...no real way of doing a thorough search of all relevant information a...
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I am wondering what all the hype was about.
My Droid X doesn't seem any faster and my battery doesn't seem to last any longer. I too think the color changes are blah and there is twice as much lag when accessing the voice commands.
This was supposed to be an upgrade, right? 😕
My Droid X doesn't seem any faster and my battery doesn't seem to last any longer. I too think the color changes are blah and there is twice as much lag when accessing the voice commands.
This was supposed to be an upgrade, right? 😕
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Droid x was actually better with 2.1....no slower, equal battery, less lag, less buggy...all the vanilla android stuff worked flawlessly. Anyway to revert? The biggest frustration is the way the search engine does not even work as it use to. blech.
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Over at android central, they suggest disabling the Auto restore feature, and then doing a hard reset. This will clear out any old eclair-specific stuff.
Probably won't help much with the search stuff, though. I rarely used it, so never noticed...
Probably won't help much with the search stuff, though. I rarely used it, so never noticed...
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For #4, see my other reply. By not auto restoring things that are not needed or cause problems under Froyo, it should help.
for #5, at least on my OG Droid, the 2.2 Calendar does still show the colored bar, but it only shows it for events that have a time. All day events are not shown with a bar, but they ARE bolded (it takes some time to get used to it, at least it did me..., but it makes it clear what's an all dar event (such as a birthday or anniversary, or holiday imported from the US Holidays calendar) and an actual event with a time (such as the birthday party itself, or an appointment.). To be honest, since I discovered the Pure calendar widget, I have hardly used the calendar app.
For #6, if you get Beautiful Widgets, there...
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for #5, at least on my OG Droid, the 2.2 Calendar does still show the colored bar, but it only shows it for events that have a time. All day events are not shown with a bar, but they ARE bolded (it takes some time to get used to it, at least it did me..., but it makes it clear what's an all dar event (such as a birthday or anniversary, or holiday imported from the US Holidays calendar) and an actual event with a time (such as the birthday party itself, or an appointment.). To be honest, since I discovered the Pure calendar widget, I have hardly used the calendar app.
For #6, if you get Beautiful Widgets, there...
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The biggest issue is #1....truly a software issue and one that makes me unhappy.
Searching has become arduous and buggy. Even when finding a contact through search, once clicking on the contact name, the unit goes to the entire contact list as opposed to the individual's contact info.
If doing a search (Google:ALL), and there are multiple contacts with the same name, only one contact is shown.
Searching has become arduous and buggy. Even when finding a contact through search, once clicking on the contact name, the unit goes to the entire contact list as opposed to the individual's contact info.
If doing a search (Google:ALL), and there are multiple contacts with the same name, only one contact is shown.
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I was avoiding responding to #1 primarily because I have never used search to find contacts, so I can't comment on that. I do understand that if you are used to doing it that way, it could be a frustration, but also I don't have any solutions, mostly because I don't use it that way.
I do recall when I first got my droid that it would do that, and I thought it was cool, in a "that's a nice feature if you need it" sort of way, but I have never used it that way. When I need to search my contacts, I go into contacts, then menu|search. You can also reduce the number of contacts displayed by using the Display options to only show certain groups of contacts, thus reducing the need to search, at the cost of a few extra taps when changing group...
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I do recall when I first got my droid that it would do that, and I thought it was cool, in a "that's a nice feature if you need it" sort of way, but I have never used it that way. When I need to search my contacts, I go into contacts, then menu|search. You can also reduce the number of contacts displayed by using the Display options to only show certain groups of contacts, thus reducing the need to search, at the cost of a few extra taps when changing group...
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