Droid 2 Crashing and Restart Problem

[adambrown]

I have a Droid 2 running stock GB with an extended battery. Recently, it started running slowly, so I uninstalled a bunch of apps. That definitely helped and caused it to run much faster.

However, I then started having problems that sometimes when I tried running an app (not necessarily any specific one), the the phone would restart. Other times it would just crash and I would have to manually restart it. Also, I usually leave the phone on airplane mode overnight to conserve the battery, but recently the battery started draining overnight and when I would wake up it would be totally dead.

I did a factory reset and reinstalled some apps, but I'm still having the same problems. Also now the battery started draining really quickly during the day as well. It went from 70% to 30% in less than 3 hours even though I barely used it then, which never happened before.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My power button is broken, however, so any suggestions would need to avoid that. Thank you!

 

[MissionImprobable]

It's probably being caused by the factory bloat that VZ has on there. A lot of those apps run in the background and drain the poop out of your battery and eat up your RAM.

 

[adambrown]

I would root and remove the bloatware, but I read on CM's website that a Droid 2 with GB cannot be rooted. Is that true?

 

[MissionImprobable]

No, there's a root method posted here via Rootzwiki.

 

[themib]

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...4-5-621-622-droid-2-a955-droid-r2d2-a957.html