Motorola Droid 4G Disappointing (understatement)

My first data plan. Expected great things from the advertisements. Have all of the problems now seeing in this forum from having to take out the battery to reset the phone to get it out of sleep mode, to 3G performance when I have a connection, to not being able to connect to my wireless network even when I am sitting right next to my router. To boot, the OS update made things worse. And I bought a new phone and Verizon will only offer to replace with a refurbished....not a happy time. If I want it fixed, have to send back to Motorola but not sure they will be able to improve the situation if these problems are still common to all users and sw related vs hw. boo-hoo Guess I should have gotten an Apple.

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My first data plan. Expected great things from the advertisements. Have all of the problems now seeing in this forum from having to take out the battery to reset the phone to get it out of sleep mode, to 3G performance when I have a connection, to not being able to connect to my wireless network even when I am sitting right next to my router. To boot, the OS update made things worse. And I bought a new phone and Verizon will only offer to replace with a refurbished....not a happy time. If I want it fixed, have to send back to Motorola but not sure they will be able to improve the situation if these problems are still common to all users and sw related vs hw. boo-hoo Guess I should have gotten an Apple.
What can we do? I have tried everything that I can think of. After reading the results of the upgrade in the varous forums, I am not going to pursue the OTA. The phone is not offering me the OTA, and I will not try to do it manually.
What is almost as disturbing is how the hype continues. The latest version of Consumer Reports lists the Bionic as Verizon's best phone. This from a group that is supposed to be attentive to consumers. I don't think they even tried this phone.
For the most part, the companies involved, Verizon, Motorola, and Google tend to present this issue as just a little noise from whiners. What I see is that so much of the technology on sale at the moment is more hype than substance. The FCC needs to get involved, but they will not. Our complaint needs to be more public...Facebook, Cnet, Twitter...because complaining on the forums does nothing.
I agree about the Apple
Joey

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I'd ignore Elements, and just drag these jpgs and the video onto the desktop. Then I'd try to rename one of the jpgs, open Elements, tell it to open that jpg, and see what happens.
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If you've had the phone for 3 years, then it's time for something new. The Motorola phones I've had have been pretty solid, but if you want to switch brands or even providers, then go for it.
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Funny how when you take the time to post your issue on a forum, you magically solve it right after you post.
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( http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10975100 ) there are more, but you get the idea.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Following-ATandT-Verizon-ETF-Hikes-Sen-Klobuchar-Pushes-FCC-769924/
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