Comments on: HTC Droid Eris OTA Update Coming Too

By: ScottKelly

ScottKelly — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:43:40 +0000

We have both had the Droid Eris for about 3 months now and have pretty much had nothing but problems and horrible customer service from Verizon. They have already replaced the phone once for “software issues” and still the problems continue. For the most part we have learned to work around or live with most of the problems. The one problem I cannot live with is the calendar force closing constantly, even when you are not in the app. I have only downloaded 3 apps from the market to make sure that it is not a bad app issue. I can take the battery out and it will correct it for a few hours. I can clear the entire calendar and reload it, that fixes it for a few more hours. I can do a factory data reset, that fixes it for about 24 hours. I need the calendar and I need the phone to work as it claims to and I need to not have to fool with batteries being taken out and phones being set up again every few hours. This is completely ridiculous. The worst part about it is the terrible service we get from Verizon.

By: kristin

kristin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:03:17 +0000

soo i need help…how do i change my text message alert sound??? i try to and it wont let me. helpp!!

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:01:00 +0000

Love the phone, unless I have to make calls with it. The call quality on both ends is so poor it’s torture trying to talk to anyone. I miss my old flip phone that I could, you know, TALK on. I love the push gmail and web/voice search, etc. Just wish I could make voice calls.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:04:18 +0000

Ive had my eris for a month and a half now and havent really had problems with it, but last nite my battery died and when i tried charging it it wont charge.
it’s like dead. wont accept any chrger and nothing has happened to it (like got wet, or dropped it)

what can i do to solve this prolem????

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:14:37 +0000

How do you select different apps to be on your home page?

By: keenee

keenee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:36:04 +0000

but you can trick it. You have to disable your WiFi to set it up and when you use it…will only work over 3G. and it has to be set up as a IMAP email not a POP3. and the ports are different…there is a link up above that walks you through it. I found that and have sent and received from yahoo mail with no problem. Also the Advanced Task Killer is bad news. caused alot of bettery life issues with me, and biggest issue was it screwed with my email. I have a att.net account in addition to my yahoo account on my eris. With the ATK installed my att.net would not send any emails from

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:05:00 +0000

I downloaded a media alarm, that turns off my pandora and/or music player after a prescribed time, does anyone know how to turn the stock alarm clock ringer back on. Ever since I downloaded the media alarm program I cant get the alarm to play outloud it only lights the phone up and sometimes vibrates.

I took it to verizon and they said I need to reset my phone to factory settings, and I dont really want to do that in regards to all my downloaded applications!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:39:11 +0000

Yahoo mail will work with the Eris…but yahoo wants you to pay $20 a year for mail plus…but you can trick it. You have to disable your WiFi to set it up and when you use it…will only work over 3G. and it has to be set up as a IMAP email not a POP3. and the ports are different…there is a link up above that walks you through it. I found that and have sent and received from yahoo mail with no problem.

Also the Advanced Task Killer is bad news. caused alot of bettery life issues with me, and biggest issue was it screwed with my email. I have a att.net account in addition to my yahoo account on my eris. With the ATK installed my att.net would not send any emails from my phone, and i was constantly getting memory full errors and force closes on my email. Uninstalled ATK and has been working great since.

this phone is great, but just like a computer at home, you cant install every program you find for it and not expect problems. You have to tweak it for how you want it and get rid of programs that cause problems…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:18:36 +0000

well, I have the Eris also. The phone was on my counter charging and last night, the started calling people on it’s own. My friend received 10 phone calls between the hours of 3:30 to 6:30. Not only her, but her husband, her home phone and her daughter. My phone also sent 3 text messages. Neighbor came over in the middle of the night with a flashlight,checked around, looking in my windows to see if I was in trouble. My husband shut my phone off so it would stop calling people. I took it to Verizon today and they updated the software. They said it should not happen again, but I will wait and see.

Software updates are available now.

By: Gz

Gz — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:32:18 +0000

They need to implement a character ‘count down’ for txt msgs or atleast something that splits txt over 160 characters into X amount of msgs so the full msg will get sent.

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:41:06 +0000

I have just contacted HTC personally asking about the update, and they told me it should be sent out in late february. But dont hold your breath, as people said earlier in the forum, they have told us numerous dates and continue to push it back.

By: Force13B

Force13B — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:33:43 +0000

Only problem if have is my HTC Droid seems to have duplicated all of my contacts 3x over now.

By: chefkmc36

chefkmc36 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:57:38 +0000

how do you get your bluetooth to work on your eris droid and when in the hell are we getting the 2.0 up date. i’m tired of all the lies verizon/google has been telling people about the eris is getting the 2.0 and is going to be like the droid phone. i think it a bunch of b/s. lets get it done.and be acting brand new.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:19:49 +0000

The bluetooth feature on the eris indicates a successful pairing. After placing a call from the Jaguar S-Type, the person answering cannot hear voice, only static. In the car, I hear them fine. What’s the fix?

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:37:20 +0000

Were the hell is my update.