Droid X Makes Calls All By Itself

Starting having problems with this about a month ago. Phone is sitting on my dresser and NOBODY is near it and it makes calls all by itself! In the past 2 weeks, it's done it at least 15 times. And the REAL pain is: It does it at 3 o'clock in the morning!!!! People are getting mad at me for waking them up AND scaring them (thinking something is really wrong).
Last night I was watching TV and I heard voices coming from my phone. It had called my BOSS at 11:15 pm (and woke him up). He was not happy. It calls my voice mail. Several of the people it has called are people I haven't called (or them call me) in over a year! It even called my wife this morning and I wasn't aware of it and she got worried something was wrong.
One of the other things it has done is downloaded pictures and apps. Nothing "dirty" but a couple weeks ago it was background photos and "skins" for my phone and there were like 300 of them!!! I deleted them all and then another batch came through a couple days later. I'll have my phone charging and when I go to look at it, it's actually "surfing" on some web site that I have never (and WOULD never) visit. Again, nothing like porn. But just weird stuff.
Am I being hacked? Do I have some kind of virus? Are there really ghosts in the machine?
HELP!!!  I'm about ready to throw this thing away and get a different phone. Any ideas???

That's very strange ...  It does sound like you somehow picked up a Virus or rogue App. If it is somewhat reproduceable (e.g., happens every night), you COULD try just running in SAFE MODE for a few nights. Just put it in SAFE MODE before you go to bed and see if it happens again. If it doesn't occur anymore during this test period you most likely have a rogue app that you downloaded.
Other options? Maybe do this in the following order.
- go back an uninstall any/all 3rd party Apps that you got in the last month (when this all started)
- Clear Cache form the Power Up method.
- as a silver bullet, the (gulp) factory reset  ...  but if you decide to do this, make sure you don't just download and install all your apps right away ... run in "Stock mode" for a duration that you feel like the problem is solved.  (ps, if you go to Verizon with your problem they will likely do this anyway.)
good luck .. you certainly have a unique problem. if you need instructions on how to do any of this just ask, or do a search in the forum for the procedure.  Please let us know if you're able to fix this and what the solution is.

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