Force the Froyo OTA to your Droid now!

[coatlegs]

That is one of the best things i've read in a long time. Thanks alot for sharing that.

Haha... sorry to get off subject, but you just randomly reminded me of this page ...and that makes me happy!

 

[myriad46]

New point:

Does anyone else know how to customize the dock on the homescreen's?
Very annoying that the browser is one of the defaults.

Try AppLauncher Pro, you can completely customize the dock and put whatever you want on there. You can have up to 7 homescreens, and they are developing their own scrollable widgets. You can even have multiple docks that you swipe back and forth. Excellent program. Well worth the donation via paypal for the Pro Version. There is also a free version, just not with the newest updates.

 

[GenericMessage]

Try AppLauncher Pro, you can completely customize the dock and put whatever you want on there. You can have up to 7 homescreens, and they are developing their own scrollable widgets. You can even have multiple docks that you swipe back and forth. Excellent program. Well worth the donation via paypal for the Pro Version. There is also a free version, just not with the newest updates.

Yeah.....had it before 2.2, got rid of it when I got 2.2 in hopes of not having to replace my entire home experience for ONE icon.

 

[itsparadoxical]

Mixed review

1) I had to uninstall Swype to get it to work properly. Now it works.

2) Vlingo (1.4.1) kept crashing and I had to uninstall and reinstall that as well. It hasn't crased (yet) since I did that.

3) I am disappointed that the gallery does not have the draggable flying folders like 2.2 on the N1.

4) My apps and phone seem a bit buggy since this install, I am not all that crazy about it so far. I hope it stabilizes a bit with use.

5) I used the desktop browser setting to use hulu, worked great.

 

[djengh]

2.2 update

Works great! Thanks all! only problem I had was I had the droid x keyboard loaded and when I re-booted, the keyboard must not have been able to load. I just kept closing it untill the phone got done doing its thing and went and disabled it in keyboard settings. flash works awesome!

Thanks again for the post.

 

[MedlongOne]

1)

5) I used the desktop browser setting to use hulu, worked great.

How? I tried it with both the regular browser and Skyfire.

 

[itsparadoxical]

Hulu

How? I tried it with both the regular browser and Skyfire.

Assuming you have Froyo already up and running...

1) Download and install flash from the link in this post:
androidcentral.com/hands-froyo-motorola-droid#comments

2) Go to this post and follow the directions to change how the browser looks to websites:
androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/28642-how-change-user-agent-string-setting-stock-android-browser.html

3) Go to HULU and enjoy.

 

[GNRPowdeR]

Purchased this Droid used, so not sure of it's history... That being said, I'm having trouble installing 2.2.

ClockworkMod Recovery v1.8.1.4 screen loads on power up while holding "X"

Don't get the "!" icon to appear

Tell the phone to "apply sdcard: update.zip

Verifying current system and assert fails: apply_patch_check " /system/app/Facebook.apk"

"Error in /sdcard/update.zip"
"(Status 7)"
"Installation aborted."

ANYONE HAVE A CLUE???

Thanks,
-GNRPowdeR

 

[furbymac]

name the file update and not update.zip

 

[GenericMessage]

name the file update and not update.zip

lawl.


Name update update.zip

I cannot tell you how many people said this! haha

And I bet a ton of people renamed it update.zip

lol .zip.zip

 

[GNRPowdeR]

Ummm...

name the file update and not update.zip

Since it's a .zip file, shouldn't it show up as "update.zip"???

Or am I missing something?

 

[MedlongOne]

Since it's a .zip file, shouldn't it show up as "update.zip"???

Or am I missing something?

In Astro, it will just say "Update" . but it really is update.zip.

 

[MedlongOne]

Assuming you have Froyo already up and running...

1) Download and install flash from the link in this post:
androidcentral.com/hands-froyo-motorola-droid#comments

2) Go to this post and follow the directions to change how the browser looks to websites:
androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/28642-how-change-user-agent-string-setting-stock-android-browser.html

3) Go to HULU and enjoy.

Did it and said Hulu does not support the platform. Same thing on the Desktop setting on Skyfire

 

[YourMobileGuru]

I...I don't feel...comfortable forcing my Droid to...to take anything...*sniffle*...

Um it's not really the best description. All you are doing is manually downloading the SAME OFFICIAL update file that they are pushing, just not waiting for it to be pushed. I've done this for 3 upgrades now and have not had a problem.

 

[GenericMessage]

Um it's not really the best description. All you are doing is manually downloading the SAME OFFICIAL update file that they are pushing, just not waiting for it to be pushed. I've done this for 3 upgrades now and have not had a problem.

I kinda think he was joking

 

[GNRPowdeR]

Still Hoping For A Clue Card...

Purchased this Droid used, so not sure of it's history... That being said, I'm having trouble installing 2.2.

ClockworkMod Recovery v1.8.1.4 screen loads on power up while holding "X"

Don't get the "!" icon to appear

Tell the phone to "apply sdcard: update.zip

Verifying current system and assert fails: apply_patch_check " /system/app/Facebook.apk"

"Error in /sdcard/update.zip"
"(Status 7)"
"Installation aborted."

ANYONE HAVE A CLUE???

Thanks,
-GNRPowdeR

Anyone??? Bueller???

 

[YourMobileGuru]

Anyone??? Bueller???

It's probably nothing to do with your phone. From the looks of things Android saw something wrong with the OS file and aborted. Maybe it got corrupted? I would download the file again, or possibly find a link to the original file on Google's servers and download that, then rename and move it.

 

[tpilkington]

Slowwwww

OK, I did the 2.2 update...it all appeared to go fine. Came up and works...I like what I see...however, I am seeing:

The OS frequently freezes when I launch.

Sometimes the screen goes black and the only thing I can do is pull the battery and reboot.

I ran the BenchmarkPi test and came in at 3319 Milliseconds...the fastest Droid came in at 379 Milliseconds...

I've also tried to move a number of programs over to the SC card, but find that most will not move...also a disappointment.

Anyone have any thoughts as to what is going wrong?

Tom​

 

[iberrychick]

Help please. I forced the update on my phone - it is working great thanks to the fabulous instructions.

I downloaded the flash apk to my computer. I was going to transfer to my sd card. Can somewhere tell me which directory I should put it in and how to install? Not completely sure how to do this.

Also, I have swype and it is not working. Anyone have great instructions/links for getting it back up and going?

Thanks!

 

[pwrmetal]

I just updated my phone and am regretting it. Am I the only one getting VERY SLOW performance on their Droid after this update? It's just awful. Any suggestions?

Edit: Doing a bit better after a 2nd reboot. The (Default) Launcher definitely seems slower though...