Official 2.1 findings thread

[thebizz]

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.

try the helix launcher it works great and gives you up to 7 screens

 

[anon(7436)]

try the helix launcher it works great and gives you up to 7 screens

Try HelixLauncher2 when you get 2.1

 

[Adrynalyne]

I really doubt HelixLauncher2 will work.

 

[digitard#WN]

HelixLauncher2 will not work. It will FC on you repeatedly in 2.1 (at least with the current cooked ESE53 builds).

So continue to use standard.

 

[anon(7436)]

Oh well, HelixLauncher it is.

 

[JORDAN#IM]

Will 2.1 boost the memory and improve the battery life?

 

[nox]

Supposed to improve battery life, god knows if it will.

 

[kingofny#IM]

t-minus 5 min and counting.....and thats east coast time...hope im one of the first

 

[ikith]

t-minus 5 min and counting.....and thats east coast time...hope im one of the first

Gonna guess it will go by Pacific don't know though nor do I care I just installed the new baseband version so I'm running 2.1 right now.

 

[DreamSTi]

This thread stuggles big time already....

 

[GenericMessage]

Gonna guess it will go by Pacific don't know though nor do I care I just installed the new baseband version so I'm running 2.1 right now.

Actually its going Eastern. So you got 2 hrs and 15 min. Thats 9am in cali

 

[Brett]

So it 9:49 eastern. Who got the updateso far?

 

[GenericMessage]

So it 9:49 eastern. Who got the updateso far?

No-one, hasn't been released. Isn't 12pm yet.

 

[DaveTheRealtor]

I kinda hope I'm NOT one of the first to get it. I have an interview at 1PM Eastern, and if this rolls out at Noon I'm going to lose focus. LOL!

 

[GenericMessage]

1 hr and 50 min

 

[Brett]

There are supposed to be 1000 people to get it at 9 am eastern. Then more at 12 on and so forth.

 

[JORDAN#IM]

I hope I get it at noon so i can have something to do to waste time at work

 

[SparkyXI]

You all realize that we have a .1% chance that we will get the update at 12 Eastern, right? Not to be a downer...

 

[ptfd13]

There are supposed to be 1000 people to get it at 9 am eastern. Then more at 12 on and so forth.

Incorrect, first batch is at 9am Pacific (Noon eastern). If everything goes ok with the first 1,000 batch then another 9,000 will go out at 8:59 pm pacific (11:59 pm eastern). Then 200,000 Saturday and another 200,000 on Sunday until all have been updated.

Here is the link to the times:
http://www.androidcentral.com/latest-motorola-droid-android-21-update

 

[GenericMessage]

Incorrect, first batch is at 9am Pacific (Noon eastern). If everything goes ok with the first 1,000 batch then another 9,000 will go out at 8:59 pm pacific (11:59 pm eastern). Then 200,000 Saturday and another 200,000 on Sunday until all have been updated.

Here is the link to the times:
http://www.androidcentral.com/latest-motorola-droid-android-21-update

Agreed.


+10 for me not having to repeat myself...........again