Some Droid X handsets have defective screens? (video)
By Sean Hollister 
posted July 19th 2010 10:25PM
posted July 19th 2010 10:25PM
All's not well in Creepy Red Eye land, if reports out of several cell phone forums can be believed -- a number of early Droid X adopters are documenting serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset's giant screen. While we don't know how widespread the issue might be quite yet, symptoms include rapid flickering and vertical banding over all or part of the 4.3-inch LCD. Several forumites claim to have already had their phones replaced, in some cases being told the defect was a common problem in their respective launch day batches. We've contacted Verizon for confirmation and hope to have a response soon; in the meanwhile, see video examples of both issues after the break, and let us know if you've seen similar glitches in comments below.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Uh-oh. But the real question... can it make phone calls?
@liquidkernel No, question is defective droids won't kill owners.
@liquidkernel Moto should give out cases with non-transperant front, no screen, no issues.
@liquidkernel
Droid RECALL?
@memeslayer
If so, should someone notify Tom Selleck?
@memeslayer *no need to wave hand* These are not the Droids you were hoping for.
No one calls about reception .. Just everything else connected to the antenna.
@liquidkernel
Except the iPhone problem has been blown WAY out of proportion and has yet to proven to be affecting butt loads of iPhone OWNERS.
Meanwhile this screen issue is probably going to be a widespread problem just like the Evo's leaking screen catastrophe.
Droid doesn't...
@liquidkernel I am waiting for Gizmodo to hold the torch and crusade for justice as they did against Apple.
@BrookLynnsFinest
Common man, I love my iPhone 4 too, but the iPhones issue affects every caseless iPhone 4 thats in medium to low signal areas. Theres no use arguing against that. But at least that problem has a simple fix. This droid problem if widespread would be 1000 times worse than the iPhone 4 antennae issue
@liquidkernel
motorolas been making crappy phones for years this is nothing new. lmao at people who thought droid looked good, touchscreen phone with a d-pad, so such a stupid idea.
@BrookLynnsFinest
The iPhone issue stems from the very DESIGN of the product. This issue is merely a MALFUNCTION of the product. One is the norm, one is not.
Get it through your fanboy head.
@liquidkernel I don't think anyone needs to worry. We all know Android is open and "open always wins".
@liquidkernel Just don't touch it that way :)
EVO 4G FTW?
@Mike10010100 yes oh engineer extraordinare. Even Moto won't be sure what's causing it, but you somehow know all this.
@HerbieDerb
evo isnt even 4g, wimax is ghetto wifi which tops out at 2.5 mbps, nice job getting owned by sprint marketing.
@BrookLynnsFinest
There's a difference between defective units in a launch batch of phones vs designing a phone with the antenna wrapped around the outside where bare skin will bridge and short the signal. Oh and the antenna was marketed as a revolution in cell phone antennas. Fail.
@JojoMojo
Yeah not a single one....except this one.
@BrookLynnsFinest
I, among several people, consistently downrank your no-so-intellectual (shall i say nicely), however I do think this is a fair response to the issue.
But your claiming its not an issue before it gets a chance to be.
However, this is an issue that can easily be fixed by replacing your phone and will probably only effect .1% of phones. HOWEVER, the iPhones issue is a problem for 100% of there phones now and all phones made later as well.
So yeah, there is a big difference.
@memeslayer
It's a problem equivalent to a dead pixel or a loose screw. iPhone's problem is systemic, due to the design.
It's really not that complicated.
@liquidkernel Maybe it's a new android feature
@Zodiac Duct tape is my answer.
@MicrosoftOwns
You sound like a disgruntled VZW customer. btw.. I have VZW also.
@MicrosoftOwns
You're a Microsoft fanboy and troll. We wonder where your life went so terribly wrong.
@MicrosoftOwns Yeah, him and mike10010100. Android fanboys to the core. They've got statistics and inside information as to the whats the whys and the how manys. Silly fanboys make me laugh.
@vqro
Fanboys? ROFL. It seriously takes a laaarge amount of stupidity to somehow make yourselves believe that this problem is anything more than a loose screw (or equivalent malfunction).
It's called logic. Sorry if you interpret it as fanboyism.
@Mike10010100 Damn right you are!! And at least the Droid X allows you to hold it in anyway, unlike iPhone lol.
@HighestRanked2
"Android has to be open so its geeky users can roam the Google forums for fixes to the crappy programming of their JAVA phone. I mean, once people buy an Android phone, they're on their own."
You're KIDDING me, right? I mean, really. Nobody on earth could possibly be this stupid. Let me go through your little list.
1) Java is one of the most popular and arguably easiest programming languages out there. It's also operating system independent and fast.
2) Forums exist for the iPhone, too, moron.
3) You're NOT on your own. You can take the phone back to Verizon if it's giving you trouble, just like you can take the iPhone back to AT&T or Apple.
Seriously? Stop being a moron, Fail Whale.
@Zodiac
Now, iPhone recall :)
Care to explain how you can make calls on a touchscreen phone minus the screen?
@liquidkernel
SkyNet upload, complete.
@liquidkernel This looks to clearly be a loose cable inside the case. Probably a bad clip is causing it. Hopefully its not widespread otherwise Motorola is in some major trouble.
@memeslayer Nah, they won't do that. Attacking Android won't get as many hits as making an Apple product seemed flawed.
@BrookLynnsFinest
Mine is working fine, thanks :)
@Mike10010100 how do you explain java exceptions on Android pop-up boxes? If user has to see java stack trace on screen, then it's complete fail. Now see, who is moron?
@liquidkernel It can most likely receive calls but with a defective screen, you can't call anyone!
@MicrosoftOwns
you sir are a certified douche bag..get a life and stop spamming android realted posts.. you might get laid someday
@Mike10010100 im being sincere when i ask this... just how "open" are android handsets? i ask because it seems they all have to be rooted to be "open", just like the iphone it seems to me..aside form the fact that you can install android on say a tv if you wanted with no threatening letters from google, but that doesn't really seem to affect the phone at all. and the eFuse sh*t seems like it will do a good job physically bricking a phone that doesn't have the proper loader.. just trying to understand.. don't flame me!
@MicrosoftOwns
I love Android yes, but I also think that WP7 is a great platform as well (potentially, but I'm not sure yet, I haven't started coding on it yet)
iPhone OS 4 is too close, I am against the company for their policies more than there products.
@liquidkernel Just wait for the Samsung Fascinate.
@system22
Google is open, manufacture modify it to their taste and release a product. The Manufacturers dont set up the phone to be re-re-coded, so you have to root it. However, if you wanted to make your own phone, the complete source code is available to the public.
@system22
well there is a difference between ios123&4 and android... android is open as in .. even without root you can install applications that don't exist or are not allowed in the market.. try doing that on an iPhone without jailbreaking it
@Mike10010100 Don't blow an efuse buddy, no one is making fun of your preciouses
@Mike10010100
Who cares I have an iPhone 4 it works better than another phone I've had. Plus if u look at YouTube the htc, nokia, blackberry, and many others have the same problem, and they don't get free cases so stop the grades n the crying just take ur iPhone back. Is funny how the people that cry the most don't even own an iPhone 4.
@memeslayer Yes it's open.... But the hardware isn't. Maybe these phones are blowing an efuse?
@Dredayxi85
Not the same problem. You have to cup most phones to get the same effect (and thats due to the FCC downlooking on antennas that are on tops of phones due to YOUR BRAIN) but you literally have to have your hands all the way around it.
the iPhone you dont need to do that, you only need to merge the gap with a finger. This is a design flaw, not a design necessity. Big difference.
@Zodiac
Omg it loses reception when you hold it with ur right hand. ..............Droid does....... it also!!!
@memeslayer
Omg it loses reception when you hold it with ur right hand. ..............Droid does....... it also!!!
@memeslayer
"how do you explain java exceptions on Android pop-up boxes? If user has to see java stack trace on screen, then it's complete fail. Now see, who is moron?"
What do you mean, how do I explain it? Java runs into a problem and asks the user if they want to wait or close the program. Know what happens when the iPhone does something similar? The program just crashes. No waiting, no error message, just crash.
Now, really, "who IS moron"?