Official 2.1 findings thread

Roy Aguilera · 03-17-2010, 05:04 PM

Being that the speculation is over and the rollout starts in a few hours please continue all 2.1 conversation here.

**ikith** · 03-17-2010, 05:08 PM

Its awesome honestly. I love 2.1. To bad it doesn't have the 2.1 launcher but I hope we get it in our next update.

Stock has 3 screens only though as most people know.

How else is everyone else liking it?

Oh and...

FIRST REPLY!

**droidweasel** · 03-17-2010, 05:22 PM

DOES ANYONE HAVE THE 2.1 OFFICIAL YET? am i missing something?

**droidweasel** · 03-17-2010, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by ikithme

Its awesome honestly. I love 2.1. To bad it doesn't have the 2.1 launcher but I hope we get it in our next update.

Stock has 3 screens only though as most people know.

How else is everyone else liking it?

Oh and...

FIRST!

lol, look above ya, da was here first. i spose u are the first meatball to post here tho. so u are the first something. lol

Roy Aguilera · 03-17-2010, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by droidweasel

DOES ANYONE HAVE THE 2.1 OFFICIAL YET? am i missing something?

You have to reboot your phone 4 times and restart it upside down. Only then can you force it to update now.

**1rawdawg** · 03-17-2010, 05:38 PM

I just read that there may be more details on how the ota update may transpire. Has anyone heard such? Maybe 10,000 tomorrow followed by 24 hour wait and see. I hope that is wrong. Source droid-life.

Roy Aguilera · 03-17-2010, 05:42 PM

The first batch of 1,000 updates will be pushed out at 9 a.m. PDT.
Assuming all goes well, another 9,000 updates will go out at 8:59 p.m. PDT.
After that, there's a 24-hour waiting period (to make sure all's still well.)
Then 200,000 updates will go out on Saturday, March 20.
Another batch of 200,000 goes out after that, until everyone has the update.

From AC's front page.

**ikith** · 03-17-2010, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by droidweasel

DOES ANYONE HAVE THE 2.1 OFFICIAL YET? am i missing something?

ESE53 is official so yes... I do.

**nox** · 03-17-2010, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by DA6

You have to reboot your phone 4 times and restart it upside down. Only then can you force it to update now.

Thought we were supposed root it and install koush's ROM :P
I got 2.1, I threw my phone up in the air, did 3 spins, then restarted upside down.
Got the update.
TRUE STORY. [/sarcasm]

**thebizz** · 03-17-2010, 05:47 PM

I'm going to try that technique in about 5 min don't know it I can get the 3 spins though might get dissy

**nox** · 03-17-2010, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by thebizz

I'm going to try that technique in about 5 min don't know it I can get the 3 spins though might get dissy

That's why only a select few have it

**thebizz** · 03-17-2010, 05:49 PM

I guess so but I'm determined to get it

**AWDmonster** · 03-17-2010, 06:03 PM

does anyone know how they are determining which phones are getting the update first or is it all random?

**ShanMan** · 03-17-2010, 06:04 PM

Do I have to do anything to enable my Droid to get the update? Ive looked under Settings>System updates but dont see anything. Anyone know?

**entwined82** · 03-17-2010, 06:07 PM

Pretty sure its random as to who gets it. Keep in mind with roughly 1 million of these suckers sold as of now it will take a few days for all of us to get.

Keep checking About -> System Updates but I'm guessing more than likely there will be a push notification letting you know you can grab it as soon as they approve you to. I wasn't here for 2.0.1 so I can't say for certain.

**pops.comp** · 03-17-2010, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by ShanMan

Do I have to do anything to enable my Droid to get the update? Ive looked under Settings>System updates but dont see anything. Anyone know?

They haven't sent them out yet

**PITTSBURGHkid83** · 03-17-2010, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by ShanMan

Do I have to do anything to enable my Droid to get the update? Ive looked under Settings>System updates but dont see anything. Anyone know?

There hasnt been an update yet you don't have to do anything your phone will let you know when there is an update

**thebizz** · 03-17-2010, 06:10 PM

It will be random. If your not rooted then its enabled but you wont see anything until its pushed to you

**ShanMan** · 03-17-2010, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by popsc.comp

They haven't sent them out yet

Originally Posted by PITTSBURGHkid83

There hasnt been an update yet you don't have to do anything your phone will let you know when there is an update

I know they havent released them yet, but I didnt know if I had to enable automatic updates or something along that order.

Thanks for the help!

**ardoreal** · 03-17-2010, 07:19 PM

Wow this update is amazing! My phone behaves totally different in a great way.....just as soon as it rolls out :P

Seriously though...why not give us the either/or option? Like have a link to the update.zip on their website so we don't have to wait.

**ikith** · 03-17-2010, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by ardoreal

Wow this update is amazing! My phone behaves totally different in a great way.....just as soon as it rolls out :P

Seriously though...why not give us the either/or option? Like have a link to the update.zip on their website so we don't have to wait.

Because then they can't test it on a small sample of users, everyone and I mean EVERYONE with a droid will be going to their site and downloading it at the same time. One person downloading it doesn't seem like much but when you factor the whole united states of droid downloading the update... Yeah you get my point.

**Brett** · 03-17-2010, 07:36 PM

if they gave their customers the "either/or" option do you really think half of the people who bought a droid would have any idea what they were doing but would still attempt to do it manually. customer service would be in queue for days and some people might screw up their phones in the process which would cost verizon money to replace them since it is an official update.

for the general public it is beneficial to do it this way. in the droid population, we are the minority haha. we know how and what to do in most cases and if we dont we will ask and find out. the 85% of the droid owners don't know what they are doing with their droid and im sure there are a lot of droid owners who use it as if it was a dumb phone and dont use email, browse the web, look for apps. they just use it to call and text. i think if many people knew how to operate a droid like the users at these kind of forums then verizon might use that as an option but it will never be that way.

**ikith** · 03-17-2010, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by bitfix

if they gave their customers the "either/or" option do you really think half of the people who bought a droid would have any idea what they were doing but would still attempt to do it manually. customer service would be in queue for days and some people might screw up their phones in the process which would cost verizon money to replace them since it is an official update.

for the general public it is beneficial to do it this way. in the droid population, we are the minority haha. we know how and what to do in most cases and if we dont we will ask and find out. the 85% of the droid owners don't know what they are doing with their droid and im sure there are a lot of droid owners who use it as if it was a dumb phone and dont use email, browse the web, look for apps. they just use it to call and text. i think if many people knew how to operate a droid like the users at these kind of forums then verizon might use that as an option but it will never be that way.

I don't think you can really screw up an update on a stock phone apart from pulling the battery when its updating lol.

**Brett** · 03-17-2010, 07:47 PM

your talking about the the general public. they could screw up rebooting a computer. im not saying it is likely that they would screw it up but i am saying that it is possible. it is probably a bigger risk then what verizon is willing to take.

**ikith** · 03-17-2010, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by bitfix

your talking about the the general public. they could screw up rebooting a computer. im not saying it is likely that they would screw it up but i am saying that it is possible. it is probably a bigger risk then what verizon is willing to take.

As I said the only way you could screw it up is pulling your battery during update.