How to manually upgrade to Android 2.1

[Phil Nickinson]

Instructions here.

Sing out if I borked or missed anything. (Don't actually have an Eris ATM.)

 

[Jared DiPane]

Looks pretty simple, and will sure make a lot of Eris users very happy!

Welcome to the 21st Century guys!

...ok seriously, hope you all enjoy 2.1! It should be a nice, much needed improvement on the experience for you guys!

 

[judasmachine]

According to many folks on androidforums, it's not working for any of the leaks. It is after all an upgrade, not a full OS.

 

[Jared DiPane]

According to many folks on androidforums, it's not working for any of the leaks. It is after all an upgrade, not a full OS.

This could be true. That is one of the risks of running those leaks as they come out, the updates to the official can be a bit on the tricky side.

 

[ptronius]

Instructions here.

Sing out if I borked or missed anything. (Don't actually have an Eris ATM.)

Not working on my downgraded-to-1.5 Eris. BOOTLOADER looks for about five different filenames, says 'no image or wrong image' and quits back to FASTBOOT screen.

 

[JoshH1]

Haven't tried yet...kind of debating if I should just await the OTA..


Ugh

 

[gotwood3001]

question. If I do the manual update, will I loose all of my contact info and apps?

 

[grandebob]

Not working on my stock eris (no root, no leak). When I follow the directions, I can't Power + vol up on the Triangle/Phone screen to get a menu to apply the update.

 

[doogald]

I'll continue to wait. I'm sort if curious to see the when the roulette wheel will stop on my phone. I'm looking forward to 2.1, but 1.5 continues to work just fine.

Just my luck it will hit when I go up to rural Maine this weekend (Saturday night), where I know I get a crappy signal...

 

[gotwood3001]

I just tried it and I get a funny boot screen. with like 4 options not sure what to pick, something like a fastboot, a reboot. anytthign like this ring a bell. What Should I do. I reconized the file I put in it. Something of the desire to that effect.?

 

[SoCal64]

I'm on 2.1v3 leak and the SdCard upgrade method doesn't work. Looks like we'll have to wait for either a dev fix or the OTA. Will the OTA abort the upgrade as well?

 

[grandebob]

On the triangle/phone screen press and hold Home then hit the power button.

 

[Brad Lane]

I'm on 2.1v3 leak and the SdCard upgrade method doesn't work. Looks like we'll have to wait for either a dev fix or the OTA. Will the OTA abort the upgrade as well?

I don't think leak users will get the OTA update. Come on devs, get to work

 

[ptronius]

OK, looks like it is working for me now - I had to rename the OTA update file referenced at the top of this thread "update.zip" and put it on the root of my SD card, then:


1. Hold down Volume Down and Power to boot into FASTBOOT screen
2. Select RECOVERY and press the power button
3. Phone reboots to screen with an exclamation point
4. Press Home and Power to access the recovery menu
5. scroll down with trackball to highlight "Apply sdcard:update.zip," press trackball to select
6. Let it do what it wants to do (about ten minutes of deleting files and installing files)
7. press trackball to reboot.

BOOYAH! Boots (eventually) to OTA 2.1. The reboot sat at the Verizon screen for so long that I thought it had crashed, so I pulled the battery and restarted. On the reboot everything loaded and life is wonderful...

 

[gotwood3001]

On the triangle/phone screen press and hold Home then hit the power button.

Did as said and it did not recognize the zip on my phone. I am led to believe this update is not the real deal as posted.

EDIT!!! I take back what I said. I got it to work. THanks to all.

 

[jdeguzman]

question. If I do the manual update, will I loose all of my contact info and apps?

Apps can be backed up with ASTRO - super easy to do. Contacts will be backed up as long as they are saved as "google" contacts. Meaning they Have "google" next to their contact name.

 

[svzuki]

OK, looks like it is working for me now - I had to rename the OTA update file referenced at the top of this thread "update.zip" and put it on the root of my SD card, then:


1. Hold down Volume Down and Power to boot into FASTBOOT screen
2. Select RECOVERY and press the power button
3. Phone reboots to screen with an exclamation point
4. Press Home and Power to access the recovery menu
5. scroll down with trackball to highlight "Apply sdcard:update.zip," press trackball to select
6. Let it do what it wants to do (about ten minutes of deleting files and installing files)
7. press trackball to reboot.

BOOYAH! Boots (eventually) to OTA 2.1. The reboot sat at the Verizon screen for so long that I thought it had crashed, so I pulled the battery and restarted. On the reboot everything loaded and life is wonderful...

Excellent instructions! Thanks. Mine had an error when trying to recover with the filename as it comes, but after renaming it update everything is working now!

 

[jdeguzman]

OK, looks like it is working for me now - I had to rename the OTA update file referenced at the top of this thread "update.zip" and put it on the root of my SD card, then:


1. Hold down Volume Down and Power to boot into FASTBOOT screen
2. Select RECOVERY and press the power button
3. Phone reboots to screen with an exclamation point
4. Press Home and Power to access the recovery menu
5. scroll down with trackball to highlight "Apply sdcard:update.zip," press trackball to select
6. Let it do what it wants to do (about ten minutes of deleting files and installing files)
7. press trackball to reboot.

BOOYAH! Boots (eventually) to OTA 2.1. The reboot sat at the Verizon screen for so long that I thought it had crashed, so I pulled the battery and restarted. On the reboot everything loaded and life is wonderful...

Newbie question - root of SDcard? Make a folder? or just anywhere on SDCard just not IN a folder?

 

[gotwood3001]

OK, looks like it is working for me now - I had to rename the OTA update file referenced at the top of this thread "update.zip" and put it on the root of my SD card, then:


1. Hold down Volume Down and Power to boot into FASTBOOT screen
2. Select RECOVERY and press the power button
3. Phone reboots to screen with an exclamation point
4. Press Home and Power to access the recovery menu
5. scroll down with trackball to highlight "Apply sdcard:update.zip," press trackball to select
6. Let it do what it wants to do (about ten minutes of deleting files and installing files)
7. press trackball to reboot.

BOOYAH! Boots (eventually) to OTA 2.1. The reboot sat at the Verizon screen for so long that I thought it had crashed, so I pulled the battery and restarted. On the reboot everything loaded and life is wonderful...

Doing as directed and my phone is deleting a bunch of files. Thanks for the detailed post.

 

[svzuki]

Newbie question - root of SDcard? Make a folder? or just anywhere on SDCard just not IN a folder?

Just in the SD card, but NOT in a directory. Think of it as the desktop of the SDcard.