Android 2.1 Upgrade is a Downgrade

The Andorid 2.1 upgrade to my Verizon HTC Droid phone has rendered it barely usable. The worst problem is that after a full charge, my phone now will hold a charge only about 4 hours. If I use the phone at all, it's 2 hours. Before the upgrade, I could use it heavily for 6-8 hours before charging it. Because of the mobile nature of my work, this phenomenon makes my phone close to unusable--and I depend on my phone to get my job done.
To attempt to address this problem, I've re-installed the Advanced Killer App and set it to do what it was doing before the upgrade. But that didn't help.
I called Verizon support, and all they could tell me to do is turn off GPS satellite usage for maps. That didn't help.
There was another problem with the upgrade. When I was asked to allow the upgrade to occur, I was not warned that all of my settings would be destroyed. If I had been told that, I would not have allowed the upgrade. It took me easily 3 hours to put my phone back in the order it was in before the upgrade. I did all of that work, and now it operates worse.

Try the startup cleaner in market and turn off some of the stuff you dont use helped me a bunch.

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No one from Verizon can or will give you a timeline. They have no idea. Verizon can't even test 5.0 until they get it from LG first so perhaps you should be asking them.

My android 2.3 upgrade deleted phone numbers and won't let me edit some of my contacts now.

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Booting would perhaps be faster on her system if it has less RAM. The system goes through a power-on self test which will take longer with more RAM. She could also have fewer programs launching on startup.
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mrod929 wrote:
I am currently under my parents family plan. Our contract ends in November 2011. I would like to get the iphone soon. My father would like to downgrade his plan to something with less minutes. I would like to keep the same plan i currently have with my blackberry but would like to upgrade to the iphone. Would i have to wait until the contract ends to make all these changes? if not then will there be any charges beside the fee for the new phone itself?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

HELP!!!!!
Someone at BT has put my order through again but no ESPN on new order. No contact from BT, no one checked my original order, no one spoke to me, no one even emailed me, just a text thanking me for my order. An order I made 2 weeks ago.
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Multiple apps just showing up after Android 2.2 upgrade???

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Hi I just posted a solution to this as a new message but dont think I can link it so am putting it as a reply here too. Hope this helps. I definitely felt your pain with this issue!
After doing much on-line reading and research I discovered the culprit and the solution to aforementioned.
It took me awhile to get to the bottom of this and I am hoping to make it easier for others.
I found a post on erictric.com discussing the Facebook software and Wake lock as well as solutions to this rogue issue. Here is the explanation for the wake lock from geekfor.me this amazingly helpful information that explained a lot: http://geekfor.me/news/facebook-1-3-wakelock/
And here is the link to the dialogue on erictric.com: http://erictric.com/2010/08/05/android-2-2-froyo-battery-drainage-apparently-caused-by-facebook-app/comment-page-1/#comment-75122
I used these to piece together the following solution:
1. You do not need to uninstall the ATK. This is not the source of your problems.
In fact, I used it to indicate to me which apps were the source of my problems--the ones that were magically appearing as open or not shutting down even after I hit Kill Apps. For me this included Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Pandora, City ID, My Verizon, and the News and Weather. It disturbed me deeply that things were running that I had never opened.
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Some add ons will stop working and some tool bars like google don't work with firefox 5 or 6 so I keep the old as your upgrade is really a downgrade So do you plan to fix the problems so we can have certain add ons as well as yahoo and google toolbars . I just keep the old and do't even want the new because its not as good as your old firefox. Fix it or lose people as you ow have others switching browsers to one not of Firefox Ill keep the old but will just keep clicking off your pop up to downgrade to firefox 6 now I have I think is firefox 4 and very happy as I can have what the others wont let me have

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