Posted 15 June 2012 - 07:45 AM
So we have purchased two Razr Maxx in the past two weeks from Costco, for my wife and my son.
Both came w/a free dock for the phone, part of the Costco bundle.
The dock does not fit the Razr Maxx properly. There are two issues:
- As reported above, the Maxx sits too low in the dock to line up w/the connectors when you remove the translucent backing plate adapter that is provided for using a starndard Razr w/out a case.
- In addition, the dock isn't deep enough for the additional thickness of the Maxx, and the bulging square area where the "M" Motorola logo sits pushes the phone out from the back at an angle.
My son's dock came w/a translucent smoke colored adapter plate on it (my wife's didn't include this), which added additional height to the lower lip the phone sits on (which lines up the connectors properly). But while solving the height issue, the additional thickness of the backing plate added by the adapter pushes the phone out from the back at quite an angle, which stresses it at the connectors, a bad thing to do to a phone w/daily insertion/removal and sitting in it all night at an angle.
My wife's dock arrived w/out the adapter plate. W/out the adapter, as noted, the phone sits to low on the dock so the connectors no longer line up. Since the additional backplate behind the phone is removed, the angle at which the is pushed out from the back is lessened, but it's still not 100% straight.
Overall, this is just a Droid Razr dock that Motorola is promoting as a Razr Maxx compatible dock, which it barely is...I assume this is the same one that Verizon is selling at their stores for the Maxx.
What we've done is remove the adapter plate from my son's dock, and on both of the docks we've put little felt bumpers (the stick on type) on the lower lip to raise the phone up enough to match up w/the connectors on the dock. Basically same fix as above, just adding some height to the lower lip.
So like above, the phone now sits at the right height to match up w/the dock connectors. But it still doesn't sit parallel to the back of the dock, it's angled outward by the bulge in the back plate w/the "M" Motorola logo on it. The angle isn't severe, but it's easy to see that the phone isn't sitting flush flat the way it should. Connector ports are often a weak link on any phone, and putting stress on them daily basis doesn't seem like a good idea.
I may attack the docks w/some sand paper to see if I can thin the hump a bit to get things lined up properly. But before I do that I wanted to find out if anyone has a dock like this that actually properly fits their Maxx properly, or is this re-purposed Razr dock the only one that anyone's seen/used?