A Series of Irritating Events

[CharlieDog]

Hoping someone can help me out. I'm having several problems with my Droid. About a week ago it just stopped retrieving Gmail, and I would have to manually refresh. Now, it just says "No Connection" and asks if I want to retry.

It has also started exiting itself out of the browser. It will just randomly close and send me to the home screen. ??? I can't find any rhyme or reason for this either.

And then, sometimes it will just blank screen itself. I try locking and unlocking it with the top button... or rather putting it to sleep and waking it up, but nothing works, I have to pull the battery. None of this coincided with the install of any particular application.

Also, it will occasionally just turn itself off and I have to turn it back on myself. It doesn't just reset.

I'm running dxTop and none of the apps I've got have been reported to cause any problems. I hadn't downloaded anything new when this started and since then I've only gotten a few games.

[Corinacakes]

sounds to me like an app is hanging up.

regarding gmail...are you signed in to your account? check and see if your account is added in settings.

[CharlieDog]

In the gmail, I am signed in. I don't think you can operate this phone without being signed in to your google account?

How do I figure out whichapp it is?

[Corinacakes]

well i'm not sure but alot of people have problems with antivirus apps. do you have one of those installed?

[natediddy1120]

I would say more than anything else, it's the dxTop home replacement. Those things have caused me more problems than any apps I've ever had. That's why I never keep them, they look cool but they cause more force closes and weird problems than anything I've had installed.

[CharlieDog]

I've never had a problem with dxtop. I got it, had a few force closes, emailed the dev, shortly after an update was released and I haven't looked back. Your milage may vary of course.


Corina, no I don't have an anti virus thingy installed. I do have task killer, but I've had it since the beginning, and I can't remember if it was updated before this started or not? Should I just call tech support? Do they know what they're doing with the droid yet or no?

[ViciousCircle]

This probably isn't the case, but make sure you don't have your task killer set to auto kill your email program(s)....

[CharlieDog]

No, it ignores my gmail. I don't use the other email client the phone has though, so I dunno if that's part of the deal or what.