Is Your Droid RAZR M Rebooting Itself? Mine Is

The other day I had taken note that my Motorola Droid RAZR M, (on Verizon Wireless), seemed to be rebooting itself.  The first few times I thought maybe I had hit some button somewhere, some how.

Then this last weekend, while I was preparing to go running, while trying to set my apps in motion for the run, the damn RAZR M rebooted itself again.  I was wondering to myself,

"Why the {insert favorite expletive here} would my Droid RAZR M reboot itself right in the middle of me using it?"

It was starting to feel like a windows machine, or my GMAIL account that kicks me out, right in the middle of editing an email, to ask me for my password.

I wasn't thinking too much of it until today (6-3-13) when I was working on my desktop system.  My phone had been sitting on the table for at least 30 minutes, untouched.  No incoming calls, no app checks by myself, no nuthin, then blammo!

All by itself it went into a mystery reboot.

I tossed out an inquiry to Twitter and Google+, hoping to get a reply from a Motorola rep.  (Many companies have reps hovering over these venues of communication and I've had several issues from other orgs resolved this way.)  But nada.

I did a quick web search, and sure enough, it seems quite a few folks are experiencing this issue.

The statement from one Verizon Droid RAZR community go as follows:

"my Droid Razr M has been randomly restarting"  {Check!}

Statement dated May 13, 2013:  

"has been for a couple of weeks now"

{Check!  Ever since a hardware update came out, if I were to relegate this to some change on my phone.}

It's been suggested that an app is causing these issues.  And that running in SAFE mode on the phone would be a good test.

But one user on the bulletin board said,

"Did a factory reset, then phone rebooted while I was in the middle of a call about an hour later. Only apps left on the phone are the pre-installed ones."

Here's my favorite:

"Then on April 23 Verizon pushed a firmware update. It's been unstable ever since , mostly random reboots."

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This was exactly what I was suspecting, since my phone was working wonderfully since I bought it.  Then the firmware update came along and the mystery reboots started happening, along with some degraded performance issues with my camera, and the screen seems darker outside too.  (Though the screen thing could be my imagination.)

So for now, we have rather hyperactive phones.

Side note: My wife has a RAZR, and after her update, she's experienced a lock up on her device.  We figured out how to fix the frozen power/lock button, but still, it's rather exciting when you're expecting an important phone call, and you find you can't access your phone!

Dang, these updates are getting crazy.  Lemme know if you've had issues with reboots or lockups also.  It would be good to collect some commentary in one place.