Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

When I first got my Android phone (the Droid 2), I noticed there were some sites that loaded slowly when using the wifi in my home. For example, when I googled Yugster, then clicked on the link to go there, the status bar on the droid browser would pause and often timeout, leaving me on the google page.

This never happened on my Linux machine or on any of the PCs we have.

Due to a power outage, my router needed a hard reset, so I had to set everything back to the DD-WRT factory defaults. Upon doing so, I immediately noted that the Android wifi problems were gone. Pages loaded very quickly.

The a few days later I realized that, I had forgotten to put the OpenDNS servers in the router.  So I put them in and went to bed. For the next two days, I noted the timeouts occurring with the droid again, so today I removed the OpenDNS server specs and the phone  is loading everything without pause.

Any thoughts on why this would happen. I love OpenDNS, but can’t use it if it’s going to do this to my droid.

~Steve

UPDATE: This turned out to be a problem with Dolphin web browser. It appears they have it resolved.

This morning, in the dark, I booted my Droid 2 and found the buttons were not lighted. Or were they not lit? Whatever, they were dark.

Reading around a bit, I learned that this happens when you boot you phone in the dark.

It seems that the phone uses the level of light at bootup to decide if it needs those lights. If you boot in the dark, the droid assumes that level of light as daylight and never turns the lights on the buttons on.

I solved the problem by turning off the phone and starting it in the light.

It would appear that the Android Phone Calendar has difficulty creating a recurring event — unless you want that event to run into eternity. That’s just not practical. Most recurring events have a starting and ending date.

So how do you create a recurring calendar event on the Droid phone? I tried these steps:

1. Create the event in your calendar setting it to repeat according to the way you wish it to repeat.  Save it. You now have an event on your calendar that repeats every day forever.
2. Go to the day after you wish the event to cease and select the event. Open the menu and choose delete.  Select “Delete this and all future events.”

It seemed to work at first. Then the entire series was gone.  Kind of crazy, huh?

Anyone have any other ideas?