2.1 ESE53 will be Official Release on the VZW Motorola Droid

[Topsy]

The only difference this official update will make to ROM'S is .....well nothing I can think of really until the update rolls out and we see if it was further improved after the look.

I still don't expect to see an ESE53 based ROM from cyanogen or droidmod, not unless Motorola releases the source code, which they've failed to do for the Droid to date.

 

[supremekizzle]

Blah blah blah. same old song and dance. I am happy for the users that haven't rooted, but for those of us who have we know that there are far better 2.1 builds that motorola will (I'm sorry) CAN NOT provide for us. Thank you to all of the devs that have put in lots of time and effort to make an awesome 2.1 experience.

 

[smokiedabong]

Still no low-light camera fix

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[adrynalyne]

The only difference this official update will make to ROM'S is .....well nothing I can think of really until the update rolls out and we see if it was further improved after the look.

I still don't expect to see an ESE53 based ROM from cyanogen or droidmod, not unless Motorola releases the source code, which they've failed to do for the Droid to date.

The portions which are open source are kept on aosp. The parts that aren't open source, such as some drivers...well they aren't. Open source so the source is not available.

 

[y0manda]

Sorry Verizon, I am now happy with Chevy's SS ROM. No update for me! staying rooted and overclocked biyatch.

 

[y0manda]

besides I called this back in January when nobody believed me about the 2.1 update.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...torola-droid-2-1-a-post165757.html#post165757

 

[Erron]

Well...I can say this....all of us root users will have flash available this weekend.

 

[supremekizzle]

What do you mean flash this week? Enlighten me!

 

[Erron]

Well...I can say this....all of us root users will have flash available this weekend.

What do u mean we will have flash this weekend

I don't want to hijack this thread too much so I added a new thread. More or less..a new rom coming out for us to try out.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/an...ady-senseui-htc-widgets-flash.html#post312137

 

[SSHGuru]

There really is NO reason to come to this thread just to say you're going to stay rooted. What's the justification for the comments?

The vast majority of people have not rooted and are happy this is coming. The vast majority of people were happy with 2.01 and don't even know 2.1 is on the way. The vast majority of people will be delighted with the update.

The rooters have their own entire section of this forum. I think that's great and they should have a section. They do provide valued APK's for non rooted people. I don't disparage them for rooting - do what you want.

I just think coming here to the official 2.1 OTA thread to announce YOU are special and are not going to get the update is obnoxious and unnecessary.

Why not start a thread in the rooting section about this and talk between yourselves.

I'm pretty happy I'll get the cool animated wallpapers and all the upgrades. I'm happy there is finally a third party home replacement that seems to work very fast that gives me what I need.

I'm delighted with the Droid - and to be honest seeing people crowing about mods and rooting is a downer.

It's like two people who both buy Mustangs - one later buys an off market part that makes his a little faster. His friend who couldnt give a crap has to hear about it every time they talk. That's how we who chose not to root feel every time you upgrade your Mustang.

 

[Droidlicous]

Still no low-light camera fix

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Touche' this is my only gripe w/ the phone even with 5x app

 

[supremekizzle]

Bravo for standing for what you believe in. The justification that I have in "bashing" the update is that it took them this long to push out the update?!?! I'm sure the devs at motorola are getting a pretty nice paycheck for making this update possible, but what about the people doing it as a hobby? Sure they get donations and everything but why should it take a HUGE corporation with tons of employees this long to do it when its been able to be done for quite awhile?

 

[choklitcow]

So an interesting story from last night. I stopped by the local Verizon store because when I purchased my phone, I decided I'd buy their overpriced screen protectors just so that I could have someone else put it on (was naive to the fact that other places do this as well). Well, I went to replace my original one today and realized that my package was empty and the punk had used all 3 protectors to get it right and didn't reimburse me.

Well, I walked in to get this solved (which they graciously did) and decided to play around with the clerk because he mentioned he had a droid too and tried to impress me about this update coming out. I went ahead and showed him mine with the newest Ultimate Droid on it. He laughed, and we started going more in-depth about the ota update.

I asked him about the new screens and their lack of making the update and he was puzzled. He proceeded to walk into the back, bring out and already running Droid with the new music widget on the main page then scrolled through plenty of pages with the neural live wallpaper installed.

This could mean multiple things:

1) It does have the screens you yearn for.
2) He decided to hand me a droid that was custom flashed.

At the time I just assumed that the new home will have more screens. I was going to come on here and be one of those guys who proclaims they have awesome news (and if you look at my history I'm usually the one mocking them). Unfortunately the skeptic in me wonders if he had just rooted his own personal droid. I never checked out the system specs or anything more on the phone other than the brief time I saw it. After reflecting upon it even more, I have to believe it was rooted. Would be strange for Verizon to not market such an addition.

As for all the "stfu rooters" comments, unfortunately that is what you are going to run into in any tech forums. This will particularly be true for you Droid users, as Motorola has a great history of having poor stock phones but a massive, amazing following of home developers who make their products great. Now I'm getting all nostalgic for my old Razr's again.

 

[aminaked]

why should it take a HUGE corporation with tons of employees this long to do it when its been able to be done for quite awhile?

Because over a million droid users won't join a class action lawsuit against some anonymous bootleg ROM provider, because pushing out software to over 1000000 people is something you want to get right to avoid people losing data, to avoid a million support calls, and to avoid having to push out an unplanned patch.

ROM providers are not obliged to back up their software. Big companies need to test, test, test, and then test some more to protect their investment.

 

[adrynalyne]

There really is NO reason to come to this thread just to say you're going to stay rooted. What's the justification for the comments?

The vast majority of people have not rooted and are happy this is coming. The vast majority of people were happy with 2.01 and don't even know 2.1 is on the way. The vast majority of people will be delighted with the update.

The rooters have their own entire section of this forum. I think that's great and they should have a section. They do provide valued APK's for non rooted people. I don't disparage them for rooting - do what you want.

I just think coming here to the official 2.1 OTA thread to announce YOU are special and are not going to get the update is obnoxious and unnecessary.

Why not start a thread in the rooting section about this and talk between yourselves.

I'm pretty happy I'll get the cool animated wallpapers and all the upgrades. I'm happy there is finally a third party home replacement that seems to work very fast that gives me what I need.

I'm delighted with the Droid - and to be honest seeing people crowing about mods and rooting is a downer.

It's like two people who both buy Mustangs - one later buys an off market part that makes his a little faster. His friend who couldnt give a crap has to hear about it every time they talk. That's how we who chose not to root feel every time you upgrade your Mustang.

I understand thats how you feel, but its not up to you on what people post.