That's a great mod on your car. (Is that a Volvo dash?)

With a Holden-Bedford commute, I can see you spending some effort on a droid/car integration. I used to do Worcester-Burlington, now I have zero commute.

And I wouldn't expect anything less from a MITRE engineer. Assuming you're an engineer. You do own a micrometer after all.

There are surely some annoyances with the Droid. I've got several of my own, which I'll be posting here soon.

Yes- Holden, MA!!! I actually bicycle to Stow and back in nice weather-
it's about a 60 mile round trip by bicycle. Plus my boss lives in Stowe.
We both work at MITRE Corporation in Bedford.

I just contacted Moto about the replacement. They're sending one off to me
asap. Thanks so much that advice. I bet there's something very thin and
nonflammable that can be used besides paper..I'm thinking a very, very thin
sheet of metal, maybe.

Had a scare last night, though, when I noticed that the cover was gone. I
was working outside all afternoon (still cleaning up some remanents of last
year's infamous ice storm!) and that's where the cover must have fallen
off. Luckily, after some searching with a flashlight, I found that it fell
off in my driveway and not in the woods behind my house. It was after I
found the cover that I googled a search for fixing the cover and came across
your website.

FWIW, this is my fifth Motorola product. Love their products, but they
indeed do have a historical issue with battery covers falling off. One of
my kids' Moto phones has this problem, and my old Moto RAZR (that my wife
now has) had the issue when I used the super size battery covery.

Tell you what- when I get a replacement cover, I'll use one of my old
fashioned micrometers to measure the thickness between the two covers and
post the results to your blog. GREAT blog, BTW.

The Droid is a great phone, BTW. I recently ran a wire from my car's
fusebox directly to underneath the car mount (see
http://www.twitpic.com/photos/david_anthony). It's cool now as I don't
worry about the battery wearing down while using the GPS and at the same
time don't run some curly cord to the dash's 12 volt adapter.

It does some ways to go, though! When the Droid is on the car mount, calls
still come in via portrait mode. Kinda goofy. I actually have a list of
little things like that that I should post somewhere.

Best regards,

Dave

That's a great mod on your car. (Is that a Volvo dash?)

With a Holden-Bedford commute, I can see you spending some effort on a droid/car integration. I used to do Worcester-Burlington, now I have zero commute.

And I wouldn't expect anything less from a MITRE engineer. Assuming you're an engineer. You do own a micrometer after all.

There are surely some annoyances with the Droid. I've got several of my own, which I'll be posting here soon.

Yes- Holden, MA!!! I actually bicycle to Stow and back in nice weather-
it's about a 60 mile round trip by bicycle. Plus my boss lives in Stowe.
We both work at MITRE Corporation in Bedford.

I just contacted Moto about the replacement. They're sending one off to me
asap. Thanks so much that advice. I bet there's something very thin and
nonflammable that can be used besides paper..I'm thinking a very, very thin
sheet of metal, maybe.

Had a scare last night, though, when I noticed that the cover was gone. I
was working outside all afternoon (still cleaning up some remanents of last
year's infamous ice storm!) and that's where the cover must have fallen
off. Luckily, after some searching with a flashlight, I found that it fell
off in my driveway and not in the woods behind my house. It was after I
found the cover that I googled a search for fixing the cover and came across
your website.

FWIW, this is my fifth Motorola product. Love their products, but they
indeed do have a historical issue with battery covers falling off. One of
my kids' Moto phones has this problem, and my old Moto RAZR (that my wife
now has) had the issue when I used the super size battery covery.

Tell you what- when I get a replacement cover, I'll use one of my old
fashioned micrometers to measure the thickness between the two covers and
post the results to your blog. GREAT blog, BTW.

The Droid is a great phone, BTW. I recently ran a wire from my car's
fusebox directly to underneath the car mount (see
http://www.twitpic.com/photos/david_anthony). It's cool now as I don't
worry about the battery wearing down while using the GPS and at the same
time don't run some curly cord to the dash's 12 volt adapter.

It does some ways to go, though! When the Droid is on the car mount, calls
still come in via portrait mode. Kinda goofy. I actually have a list of
little things like that that I should post somewhere.

Best regards,

Dave

Definitely contact them about getting a replacement. Mine arrived in a few days and fits much better. It hasn't fallen off once.

I don't have a micrometer.

Well, I got lucky and found the cover. FWIW, I've had a several Motorola phones in the past (the Razr and my wife/kids other Moto models and all but one had a loose cover problem. I'll apply this “paper insert” solution on one of the loose non-Droid phones and see if it helps! (Fire warning understood, although I think it wildly unlikely).

I'm also ordering a replacement cover via Motorola's offer to replace them. When the replacement cover comes in, I'll use one of my micrometers to see if the pad in the back is any thicker!