D2G Gingerbread Update??????

I love my droid 2 global but I really think that gingerbread is going to be much better on it than froyo is. So I'm hoping that verizon/motorola will soon come out with an update (though I'm sure the droid x and incredibe will get updates before d2g and its not going to help that verizon is going to be preoccupied with the release of the Iphone and the new 4g phones). Also I've decided that as soon as I'm due an upgrade I'm changing to htc. Sorry moto you make great hardwear but I think I will like sense way better than this semi-motoblur thing.

From my experiences with Gingerbread, it's honestly not that big of a jump from Froyo, mostly some minor UI changes that may even be overriden by MOTOBlur. I believe there are some speed and battery life adjustments made as well, but probably nothing really noticeable.

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D2G Gingerbread Update - Touchscreen Issue

Hi all. Ever since the 4.3.3 update, there is a portion of my touchscreen about 1/4" wide that won't respond. With the phone upright it's on the right side, with the keyboard extended it's at the top.
It's driving me nuts, because I can't tap icons that appear there. When driving I can't use the notification menu because I can't pull it down. And I can't properly fill out webforms or navigate.
I've done the factory reset. No difference.
Does anyone have any info on what might be causing this?

Same issue here the right side of my touchscreen is out of comission also. I went to verizon and my options were to buy a used phone,buy a new device at full price because I am not available for upgrade till October. Oh yeah my third option was use my old phone if i still had it. It seems to me that this is more than just individual user issues. It is pretty sad that there seems to be no one that actually is listening to these complaints. Where the hell has customer service gone in this country was that outsourced as well? Is there a way to take that ** "upgrade" off of my phone it was working fine before. Maybe I will "Netflix" Verizon as well when my contract is up. I never had any problems with them prior to this. I will file a complaint with them and see where that gets me. I was even willing to sign a new contract and was told i couldn't do that either. I have looked on the internet about this issue as well and it seems as if there are WAY MORE folks having the same EXACT problems with their Droid2 as well.

Gingerbread update - Bluetooth no longer working in car

I have seen people complaining about this issue on other forums - lots of phone models and car models are affected. My bluetooth was wworking perfectly for hands-free calling prior to the Gingerbread update. Bluetooth stopped working the day I received my Gingerbread update last week. I've tried everything I can try. Apparently there is no resolution to the issue yet. Verizon tech support could not help - they told me to contact HTC. HTC tech support had no clue. I want to revert back to Froyo, but apparently that's not possible either. I am VERY frustrated. I loved Android, but bluetooth in my car is a very important feature for me. Might be time for an iPhone...
If anyone has any solutions for this issue, please let me know. By the way, I have read in other forums that a factory reset does not work - it keeps the same phone software. It's something that changed in Gingerbread that is causing the problem. I would love to get rid of Gingerbread.

Smitty,
I don't have Gingerbread (yet, and I'm thinking that's a good thing at this point), but I've had the same problem with my DInc before with my 7 week old new car. After an initial successful link-up and upload of my phone book, my phone wouldn't maintain a connection either.
Here's my suggestion for you, because It's my current work around to get my bluetooth connection to work:
1) Unpair your car bluetooth and your phone so you can start from scratch
2) Re-pair your DInc and your car
3) When your phone connects to your car, you'll hopefully get a pop-up dialogue box on your phone asking to link to your phone book. At this point, say no to the phone book link. You *should* hopefully have a good bluetooth connection now, and you'll still have the ability to dial from your phone book. If you don't get the pop-up, well...I'm out of ideas. Sorry.
I don't know what capability that pop-up dialogue box on the phone supports, but it sure screws up my bluetooth connection in my car.

Someone please clarify some things for me about this Gingerbread update.

Alright... Someone please help me with some information. I hate to sound like I'm living under a rock, but I'm confused about this update I keep hearing about. How do I know which update I have? A couple months ago, maybe, I was just tinkering with my settings and selected "about phone" and it said there was an update available, so I downloaded it, and it changed the appearance of my home screen and different other things, but my phone worked just as good as it did before, so that is all that I noticed about it, that it looked different and I liked it, so I was happy with it. A couple of weeks ago I started having problems out of the blue with my multi-touch keyboard. I googled this forum and made an acct and someone named Cody was helping another user with the same problem, which was selecting space while texting and it taking away the keyboard leaving you to select the text space again, only to hit space and have it go away again, which forced me to use periods after every word so I could avoid hitting space. Anyway, he said to turn word prediction off. It worked for the guy he was helping, and it worked for me as well. I was happy and thought everything was back to normal. Well, a few days later I noticed that while texting if I hit the period symbol, exclamation point, question mark, or any other symbol or punctuation mark, it freezes what I pressed on my keyboard and the keyboard will not go away. I can exit out of text messaging, and get back to my home screen however the keyboard is still frozen on the screen with the symbol pressed down. Also I have an issue with my camera flashing on and off when I am trying to take a picture, and it will not let me snap a shot. I push the buttom down to auto focus and it just flashes on and off on the camera screen, the flash will sporatically come on and off and it's just all shot out, just out of the blue. I went into settings for my text msging and just unchecked everything, to see if that would help. I wrote 2 msgs using punctuation purposely and had no problems. But, my camera still will not work. Is this all because of this update that I downloaded? I just see a lot of people complaining about Gingerbread update and I don't even know what I have. I also had no clue that it's a good idea to reset your phone before or after an update. I didn't do this. I just updated my phone. Will it do any good now to reset it to its original state? I don't understand that at all because it would seem like if I reset the phone to factory.... wouldn't that take away the update that I downloaded anyway? I'm so confused someone please set me straight! Sorry for the long post but really I am just trying to understand what's going on with my phone. Thanks for any advice/help.
[minor edit to remove potentially sensitive phrase]

Welcome to the forum.
OK, as far as which version you have, it sounds like you got Gingerbread. If you go into About Phone, GB is Android version 2.3.3 and the System Version is 4.5.596....
As far as the Keyboard issue, many have had success by turing off the word prediction, as I mentioned. Others have not. Some have had luck by first doing a Clear Caceh procedure (see below). The next step after that is a Full factory reset (which is what Verizon will likely have you do if you get them involved). Personally, I have yet to need to do the Factory Reset - others have and even go as far as recommend it.. So I would start with Clear Cache and see if that helps. If not, do a Search for "In and Out of Factory Reset" using the search feature above. You really need to undertsand it before blindly jumping into it. Good luck.
Wiping cache partition
Power off
Power On Holding Home Key
When Andy with Exlamation Point Shows up Press BOTH Volume keys
Use Volume Keys to navigate to "wipe cache partition" and tap power button to select
Wait for it to finish and select reboot system

How to get Gingerbread update on old Incredible

Hi i am new to the community but not to Android. I am currently using a HTC Thunderbolt but i have an old Incredible that i would like to get the Gingerbread update on. Will i be able to get the Over the air update since it is not activated anymore? I have not recieved it yet. If i cannot get the over the air update is there a simple way to manually update the incredible to Gingerbread?

awhoward wrote:
Hi i am new to the community but not to Android. I am currently using a HTC Thunderbolt but i have an old Incredible that i would like to get the Gingerbread update on. Will i be able to get the Over the air update since it is not activated anymore? I have not recieved it yet. If i cannot get the over the air update is there a simple way to manually update the incredible to Gingerbread?
Thanks to all the community members for your input.
Hello Awhoward, adding to what Wildman stated, you would need to have the HTC Incredible device activated in order to have access to the update. This is because this update is available on our network and is the recommended method for obtaining a software update. Also, updates are pushed out to the phone when the become available. You can log into My Verizon under the account owner and do the equipment change to have the HTC Incredible device on the line that has the HTC Thunderbolt on it. Afterwards, please use this link to the instructions on how to complete the software update. If you want, you can change back over to the HTC Thunderbolt and activate the SIM Card. I hope this helps.

Should Verizon provide a roll back option from the gingerbread update?

Simple and straightforward. Do you believe That verizon should provide a rollback option from the gingerbread update?
My vote would be Yes.
Here is some reasons why
1 First and foremost the update should not have been forced.
2 When making significant changes to the operating system like gingerbread has Motorola should have the decency to contact Droid owners And inform them of the changes they attend to make.
3 The update wasn't really necessary.
4 ethically I believe that verizon should provide a roll back option.
5 regardless of what the fine print says in the contract just because something is legal to do doesn't mean it is ethical to do.

Talk about beating a dead horse.......
I was President of the GB Sux Club after it came out. At least a dozen bugs and glitches were created after I installed it.
But, you know what?
In the weeks that have followed, as apps have been updating (you should check the Market for available updates if you don't have them set to auto), and I check daily, something interesting has happened.
Most of the bugs and glitches have mysteriously gone away.
Is/was GB the "problem"? It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't the problem.
After GB, my phone did and does bizarre things from time to time that makes me wonder how they could be caused by a conflict the O.S. is having with a 3rd party app.
The 3G dropping issue notwithstanding.
There are some issues, yes. But, I contend apps are the main "problem".
Can going back to Froyo (if it were possible) do more harm than good, if 3rd party apps are updated for GB? That's above my pay grade.
I did a reset after GB and it solved nothing. I defiantly refused to un-install all apps, or reboot in Safe Mode.
I did NOTHING but let the developers update their apps and right now, my phone is largely bug and glitch free, again.
In politics, there was the saying, "It's the economy, stupid". In Android, "It's the apps, stupid". (Not speaking to anyone in this forum).
Yes, the evil empire has it right when it comes to the stranglehold they have on which apps are allowed on their tiny iphones.
But, you know what? If, OEMs did the same, the Android experience wouldn't be the frustrating situation it is at times, ESPECIALLY after EACH update.
In my opinion.

Restarts every 3 MINUTES after Gingerbread update!

Subject pretty much says it all.. I installed the update this afternoon (and did NOT install anything else since) and now my phone is restarting itself every 3 minutes! I don't even think that's enough time to get in and back up my apps and texts, so I would really rather not do a factory reset!
Even as I'm writing this, it's now restarting every 30-60 seconds, in safe mode... Please HELP!!!

Since no one else cared to help, I figured out my own solution.. Everything I read online said I probably had an app that didn't agree with the update and the easiest fix would be to factory reset it. Not what I wanted to hear, but whatever! So I backed up my apps using Astro File Manager and backed up my texts using Go SMS Pro (both free apps).. Took a few restarts to get that done!
To factory-reset, you hold the volume button and power button at the same time.. Then when the Samsung logo shows up, let go of the power button only.. You should then get a black screen with some colored text and one of your choices is "wipe data/factory reset". Use your volume button to go down to that option and then press your Home key. Press Home again to go through with the reset... THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING FROM YOUR PHONE! Which is why you should back everything up first. There are easy-to-follow visual instructions on how to reset your phone here.. http://community.vzw.com/t5/Samsung-Fascinate/Gingerbread-update-bricked-my-phone-also/td-p/742556
Once reset, you will have a lot of reconfiguring to do but if you install Astro File Manager again you can fairly easily re-install your apps. I just installed the apps I use most, to see if any of those screwed with Gingerbread. So far, so good! Guess I will slowly re-install the rest over the next few days and hope nothing goes haywire again!

Oct 22 Gingerbread update

where's DROID CHARGE 2.3.5 GB update this is ridiculous already this phone has so many issues n u do nothing about it! WHERE is GB? my phone reboots 20 times a day :'( and dies so quick!!! I just called Verizon rep n she said that they are freezing the charge from exhange cuss Verizon doesn't wanna deal with the droid charge anymore n thinks of it as a loss cause n profit and wants all to waste our money on the new nexus this Is what the rep said n he sounded honest! !

They are not freezing the Charge because they do not want to deal with it. I posted the information below on the other Gingerbread update thread, they are freezing it because they are getting ready to roll out Gingerbread and believe that the update will fix many of the problems that people are having.
I went to my local Verizon store today to have my Droid Charge replaced due to some issues I've been having with it recently. I was told by the employee there that I could not have my phone swapped out because they have just issued a freeze on swapping out the Charge due to pushing Gingerbread out, and that it should be out by no later than the end of the month. Being one of the lucky ones that got caught up in the Fascinate update debacle, I take this with a grain of salt, but the thing that keeps me hopeful is the fact that Verizon won't let you switch your phone out. I don't see them doing this unless the update is imminent, otherwise there would be a major backlash. The employee promised that the issues I was having (phone freezing, not recognizing SIM card at times, and losing network coverage) would be resolved with Gingerbread, so I just needed to be patient a little while longer. I question whether or not the update will fix my problems, but I will give it a shot. Thought everyone might find this info useful/promising!

If Moto Droid X gets Gingerbread update today(3/27), how will Fasicnate owners here react?

If Moto Droid X gets Gingerbread update today(3/27),
how will Fasicnate owners here react?

potove wrote:
If Moto Droid X gets Gingerbread update today(3/27),
how will Fasicnate owners here react?
yet another {please keep your posts courteous}who joined just to stir stuff up.

ARRGGGG Gingerbread update - Phone keeps turning off!!!

All was well until I updated to Gingerbread. Now my phone either turns itself off and restarts or goes into a black sceen which can only be recovered by removing the battery or while in the middle of a conversation I will get the Verizon startup jingle playing in my ear ....I never lose the call but I can no longer hear the other person though they can hear me saying "Hello? Hello? Hello?".....Grrrrr Verizon/Samsung
And I'm almost positive that Verizon's solution will be to reset the phone to the factory settings, which quite honestly is a pain and instead up feeling like you have upgraded, you feel that you've taken a step backwards....losing information and having to reinstall your apps.....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I love being a beta tester!!!!

Thanks everyone for your feedback after the Gingerbread update. Since there are several people having this same issue, I would like to submit feedback to our product team for this issue. Can you please send me a PM with your MEID, software & baseband version, and how often this happens? Those can be found in Settings>About phone. I only need a few examples, so just the people that have already posted in the forum please PM me. Once we have a product issue submitted, our product team will work with Samsung to duplicate then resolve this issue.
Thank you,

Gingerbread update d2g

Ok i know that the update has been out for some time but it still will not let me update my droid 2 global to android Gingerbread please somebody help me out here. thanks in advance

The update was pulled and never released.
BTW this post will soon be moved to the Droid 2 forum.

To all the people waiting for the gingerbread update.....

!!!IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! (and i mean this in the nicest way....)
Here are a few reasons to support this theory:
1. All models of the Droid Incredible are no longer being produced by HTC, they have stopped production
2.If your android incredible is broken destroyed or otherwise out of warrenty assurion is shpping out the DROID INCREDIBLE 2 for a replacement.
3. For months people have asked the same question over and over to both verizon and HTC give out the unreadable grey responses about when and if an update will occur
4. The EVO, THUNDERBOLT, DROID INCREDIBLE 2, AND SEVERAL OTHER DEVICES PRIOR TO AND AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE DROID INCREDIBLE HAVE RECIEVED THE 2.3 UPDATE....
So the only way possible if you want to get android 2.3 is to{edited to comply with Terms of Service}
and use a custom ROM, but again this also has its draw backs since it WILL VOID the manufacters warrenty. SO NOT A GOOD IDEA{edited to comply with Terms of Service}
Option 2 is to upgrade to a new phone but I for one have now and completely lost faith in HTC because of this particular issue with the incredible. This is the first cell phone I have ever had that I have never replace. Any other phone from my past i would go through 2,3,4 phones, and to finally get a phone that is solidlly built makes me happy, and also ntm that HTC states in their response emails to their customers that they are still testing to make sure its compatible. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TESTING HTC THERE ARE ALREADY STABLE VERSIONS OF GB RUNNING ON SOME OF THESE DEVICES AND NTM THE DINC2 IS VERY SIMULAR THE DINC SO WHY WOULDNT THE UPDATE WORK!!!!(and yes overall the dinc 2 is faster by so thank you to those for listening to my ranting and I welcome any counter posts it is just from what I havwe mentioned above and what I have read on the web has lead me to believe these things....Hopefully soon I will have the shiney 4G LTE Samsung Stratosphere come mid september but we can only wait and see....

Owned the Incredible since day one,but after this cold shoulder from Htc. I'm thru with this company.Every phone thats come out later has gingerbread,and the majority of them are junk.The t-bolt has been a nightmare.Besides a few reboots I have'nt had any real issues with my Dinc.Still one of htc best phones but no love from Htc.Even Motorola is updating in timely manner.Htc has to know when you forget past customers you lose future customers.

Corporate Sync now only allows 1 day after Gingerbread update

The title pretty much says it. I had a Droid2 which was acting funky, and which would fail when I tried to update it to Gingerbread, so Verizon (kudos to them) sent me a "like-new" replacement Droid2 even though my warranty had just expired.
When I got the new phone, I immediately updated it to Gingerbread (successfully). Then I went about setting everything up. I had been using a Corporate Sync account on my old phone with my employer's Outlook (Microsoft exchange) to have all my work email on my phone. The setup went fine, as it did on the old Froyo phone. But, when I went to change the setting to have it sync all my email, the dropdown box only gives me the choice of "1 day". It should be something like "1 day, 3 days, ... 30 days, all".
I deleted the account and set it back up, and still the same thing.
For those who don't know, you go to Messaging, click the settings button (the little four boxes on the bottom of the display), Manage Accounts, pick the Corporate Sync account, and scroll down to "Sync Messages for:" and you should be able to pick different lengths of time.
Anyone else experience this or know how to fix it?

Same problem here. com.motorola.contacts.data eating my battery alive; have to turn off data services to get my battery to last through the night. Also seems to have spawned some process called *wifi* (in addition to the existing process called Wi-Fi) that adds to the consumption.
None of those incredibly active types ever answered you? Bummer: so much for the crowdsourcing paradigm, I guess.

Gingerbread update -- What's the big deal?

Having found Froyo to be a very useful update, I was curious what to expect for Gingerbread, so I looked up the Top 10 (according to one ZDNET blogger) Features of Gingerbread: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/top-10-features-in-android-23-gingerbread/2143
They're broken down between top 5 user features and top 5 developer features. Below are the top 5 user feature [with my comments]. I'm just curious why folks are in such a lather over Gingerbread -- what am I missing out on?
New on-screen keyboard. The standard keyboard has been greatly improved in Android 2.3, with faster input and more intuitive typing. Even cut-and-paste got a makeover. [IMHO the HTC Sense KB on TB is very good -- perhaps this feature is needed on other Android phones]
Streamlined user interface. New color schemes and various UI changes and polish make Android more consistent and simpler to use. [Yawn].
Application and power management. Android 2.3 provides better insight into what is running in the background, how much memory and CPU time it is using, and even lets you kill misbehaving apps. Yes, after months of telling us we don’t need a task killer, they give us a task killer. Enjoy your chuckle, iPhone fans. [I'm pretty happy with the Apps manager in 2.2, but I don't run tons of Apps].
SIP Internet calling. Voice over IP is integrated directly into Android 2.3. Unfortunately you’ll have to get a SIP account from a third party, and the ability might be curtailed on some carriers. [I can see this as very useful for some TB owners -- but really, how many of you use VOIP?]
Download management. All your downloads from your browser, email, and other apps, can now be viewed and controlled from one place. [Thus far, I haven't had any issues with download mgmt. I use the "OI File Manager" app, but perhaps the few apps I use which download stuff happen to be in the "well behaved" category -- e.g. let me know where they're downloading?"]

it's not that big of a deal to me (or i would've got it by now). it's not nearly as critcal as froyo was (flash, etc). what bothers me though, is that it can and has been done. and now verizon is capable of pushing it to other devices.....older ones and newer ones....so why not us? i'm not going to throw fits or gripe about it, but since you brought it up, my opinion is that they plastered ads all over the place when they launched this device....and then just sort of gave up on it (took forever for anyone to offer cases for extended batteries, a BAD update, i'm still not sure if they ever got the dock that they had advertised and then pulled from their site??? etc, etc). i'm happy with my tbolt and have been fine with froyo, but GB is being pushed to other devices so there's really no reason we shouldn't have it soon.

D2 Gingerbread update, Corp/Exchange Calendar NOT synching now

Just updated to the gingerbread on my Moto Droid 2 and now my corp exchange calendar does not sync.
The option for the corp calendar does not appear in my calendar choices.
Mail and Contacts are all good.
Any Help???

Thank you for the reply
Yes I did remove the corporate account and reinstalled.
I am pretty certain it is on the phone side and not the server as:
-The calendar worked perfectly before the update (I see you have the thunderbolt so this update does not effect you)
-On the phone, the corporate account shows the calendar along with the contacts and email but does connect the calendar option.
Any other D2 users that completed the 2.3.3 update that have or have not had this issue with a corporate exchange account issue?
Maybe a clean wipe will correct?

D2G Gingerbread Update??????

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