Motorola Droid X Gingerbread Update Bricking Phones
Yesterday, it became very clear that there was a major issue with the Motorola Droid X Gingerbread update. As you might know, it’s available to all Droid X owners right now. And while most owners are happy campers, it seems like a few others are going through a nightmare.
You see, the OTA update has apparently bricked a bunch of Droid X devices. We heard about it from GBM readers and now we’re seeing it pop up in other places as well. It seems some Droid X owners are saying that after installing the update, their phone goes black, and the phone refuses to reboot.
That my friends is a bricked phone. Other are reporting that while they thought their phone was bricked, the phone was able to boot up at a later time. It’s unclear how many people this has affected but if we had to guess we’d have to think the percentage is low. The update also has apparently brought along a few of the issues that major Android updates usually bring along with them:
Battery life problems and issues trying to sync.
Those are obviously petty compared to the device becoming unusable. So, we have to ask, anyone out there having major issues with the Droid X Gingerbread update? And if so, is Verizon taking care of you?
I am on droid x number 5 replacement, and now my phone is blacking out again and intermittently rebooting all by itself. have had various issues with the droid x. also now I have numerous friends family telling me that my calls are not being received my husband has called 5 and 6 times on different occasions and the calls not reaching me.*
No Verizon could give twoshits about me. My phone will not bring the slide lock up and will freeze the phone. Sometimes its as bad pressing the power button to unlock and just lights the four keys on the bottom. Verizon has sent me another about a month and a half ago and still is messing up. I had a person in a Verizon store said the techs can flash it to the old os but the store near me told me I am making this problem up and they see no issue. If I do a battery pull I get a few minutes of use on the phone then it goes down hill. Sad thing is im about to go to and upgrade on my mothers phone and then activate it on my line. Verizon has really made me mad with this. No caring and doing nothingagainst for me. We have been with them for 7 years so this is bs. If anyone can tell me a solution it would help.
My droid 2 global automatically installed the update and now I can’t connect toany network providers. So I can’t make calls text or receive. Please help
I did the update on my Droid X and it only gets to the red Motorola symbol and freezes there. I can NOT do a system restore. Is there anything I can do?
I can only get to the boot loader system and not the root system.
It just haopened after I decided install the update hoping the phone I put all learning abc 123 apps for my year old loves to use. Now it appears bricked as it will not reboot like my Droid X2, Bionic, Razr and Razr Maxx. Even my HTC Droids both incredibles reboot after crashed. Both new Razrs can be rebooted by pressing the on off button and by holding the lower volume rocker. Not so with the Droid X. I am not happy. I am a good customer, I a new G’Nexus and a Galley Nexus but I never had to boot. I have a Palm Pre that was temporarily bricked after a webOS update, butPalm was awesome calling me immediately and walking through it. Motorola keeps putting out cool gadgets that unfortunately do not hold up very long compared to the consistency of our iPhones using iOS. I read Jellybean is arriving in april and ics is not on my Bionic or Razrs or Incredible