Official 2.1 findings thread

[ikith]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Brett]

im hoping this new update is root-able because if not there are going to be a bunch of unhappy campers haha. im not willing to take that kind of risk. if i see it is worth updating i unroot but i want to see what everybody thinks about it before hand.

 

[ikith]

im hoping this new update is root-able because if not there are going to be a bunch of unhappy campers haha. im not willing to take that kind of risk. if i see it is worth updating i unroot but i want to see what everybody thinks about it before hand.

Could always sbf back. But so far its good . No point in updating if you are running an ese53 rom since that is the same thing that is being pushed. In fact now that I think about it... It shouldn't even ask you to update.

 

[Brett]

what is sbf?

 

[ikith]

what is sbf?

Basically reflashing your phone using rsdlite and the 2.0.1 sbf.

 

[FliesLikeABrick]

Will rooted droids be able to get the OTA update? Is there anything special that rooted droids need to do or not do to get/use 2.1?

 

[pstinger]

Basically reflashing your phone using rsdlite and the 2.0.1 sbf.

You really shouldn't answer a question about an abbreviation/acronym with the same abbreviation/acronym.......

 

[ikith]

Uh... RSDLite isn't another acronym its a program that flashes software to your phone.

 

[Brett]

Will rooted droids be able to get the OTA update? Is there anything special that rooted droids need to do or not do to get/use 2.1?

ya.... un-root haha just playing but yea there is nothing else you can do except that. or you can wait for the manual update but who knows when that will come out.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Uh... RSDLite isn't another acronym its a program that flashes software to your phone.

You answered to "what is sbf" with an answer of flashing with an sbf.


Using the same acronym to answer a question?

At any rate, folks miss out on the radio update if they don't OTA update or flash using the sbf file.

 

[thebizz]

Sbf is super boot file if I'm not mistaken
And I doubt many people will miss out on the radio update if rooted seeing that most roms are now based on ese53 taken from the rooted sbf file

 

[Adrynalyne]

I thought it was soggy brown fungus, but I stand corrected.

 

[ikith]

You answered to "what is sbf" with an answer of flashing with an sbf.


Using the same acronym to answer a question?

At any rate, folks miss out on the radio update if they don't OTA update or flash using the sbf file.

Hm... Flash sbf then recovery the sbf then flash to any rom. Sounds easy.

 

[GenericMessage]

So with the latest maps update that Live wallpaper being a map thing looks pretty badass

 

[ikith]

You answered to "what is sbf" with an answer of flashing with an sbf.


Using the same acronym to answer a question?

At any rate, folks miss out on the radio update if they don't OTA update or flash using the sbf file.

Me:

Could always sbf back.

Him:

what is sbf?

In the context sbf was used I answered his question .

 

[YourMobileGuru]

To answer someone's question why we would want more home screens is to have more room for widgets. I have a droid and a devour and it kills me that the devour which is in most respects an inferior phone has 5 home screens and I have 3 on my droid and I have more widgets I want to use that are coming with the new upgrade. Ideally they would have a setting where we could specify how many home screens we want (3,5,7 whatever) and those who want less could decrease and those of us who want more could increase. I've tried a couple home screen replacement apps and every one of them ended up slowing the phone down and in one case actually crashed the thing forcing me to reboot to regain stability and remove the app.