Motorola Forum Tips about Droid X

It looks like Motorola is reading forum posts and is working on an update to fix some of our major issues.
There are also some interesting tips.
https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/190567#190567

About #4 at that Motorola link regarding Notification volume: does this also address the speakerphone volume? For instance, many people have trouble hearing the verbal Navigation directions while using Google Maps Navigator and VZ Navigator. Similarly, the voice prompts while using the voice commands app (or whatever it is called) are hard to hear if not impossible to understand - at least for many people.
So, many users who report a low volume ringer/notification problem also report a low speakerphone problem. Will increasing the notification volume automatically increase the speakerphone volume? If not, did Matt simply forget to mention the speakerphone or is Motorola indeed only increasing the volume of rings and notifications and not the functioning of the speakerphone?

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I come to this forum and all I see is bad this, broken that, and not working whatever. I would like to here all the good things about the X.
I'll start off with the bad because no one has a perfect phone. I had my droid for about a month and I did have some issues with it, gps, dropped calls, screen would freeze at the most inconvenient times, sluggish when switching screens, and the battery life was usually less than 8 hours. I called CS and they were more than happy to send me another phone and I received it just a few days ago.
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droid <----- yeah really
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youtube
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Looking for security tips about webhosting app

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Although, I don't know the specifics of your setup.
Why is this recommended seen security aspects ?
Users have only access by ftp/mail services, anything else is disabled.
2. A shell is required for FTP access. So unfortunatly this is not an option.
Strange that Apple likes to give each user that requires ftp also shell access in the way that they can log in via terminal - or is their command set limited to only viewing files, creating directories and changing permissions ?
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Wake up button: Correct, and I like that way. The "home button" or any other front button is too easily pressed while in a holdster or pocket.
Moving to another screen: Pinch zoom any home screen to see minature versions of all screens to pick from.
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According to the guy that posted that, he was orginally denied, like has been said here. but then the looked it up and told him they'd honor the 1yr early upgrade.
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I'd like to know what is the best way to share data between cases in a loop
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