2.1 ESE53 will be Official Release on the VZW Motorola Droid

[andrewdoane]

Deployment schedule expect more things like this from me

Only 1,000 at first, huh? Guess those 1,000 will be celebrities here for that first half-day.

 

[Cnote187]

Deployment schedule expect more things like this from me

who can even see that?

 

[Se7enLC]

Actual letter that I saw posted on the front of a Verizon store window:

"Dear Verizon/Motorola,

Your a douche.
...
"

Dont know who posted it, but I think i saw a Verizon rep high five another guy after reading this.

They were probably high-fiving and laughing about the grammar in that first line (my a douche? huh?)

As for all the people commenting on "why did it take so long for an update" - they need to understand that the hackers are a very small percentage of the over a million droid owners out there. Plenty of people just want their phone to work without issue. If 1,000,000+ phones suddenly started crashing, there would be lines around the block at Verizon stores, and stocks would plummet. But when a custom rom causes problems, all that happens is people post on a forum and try out a different one. Rom hackers can try all kinds of new things without needing to spend months testing.

Somebody mentioned "class-action lawsuit", and that is a distinct possibility. If somebody on an internet posts a rom update that erases all of your data when it installs, nobody thinks twice. But if Verizon does an over-the-air update that does that, they will be on the front page of the news. Better to be safe than sorry, and I commend VZ for not rushing it out to keep up with the Nexus.

 

[krazykarl]

Deployment schedule expect more things like this from me

Only 1,000 at first, huh? Guess those 1,000 will be celebrities here for that first half-day.

Hopefully one of them is nice enough to defer upgrading long enough to post the update.zip for the rest of us so we don't have to wait so long.

 

[scoder]

Deployment schedule expect more things like this from me

who can even see that?

Its actually pretty clear if you zoom or read it from your droid. If you need a better pic let me know. And I just saw the incredible in person. Goodbye motorola for me maybe

 

[wegriffith3]

Its actually pretty clear if you zoom or read it from your droid. If you need a better pic let me know. And I just saw the incredible in person. Goodbye motorola for me maybe[/QUOTE]

What did you see????

 

[meaker]

Here we go again..lol. Now watch Verizon pull this off their site, like Motorola did..... Then this thread goes to 200 pages until it gets locked...lol Hope not.

What I wanted from this update was smoother working, swipe from pic to pic(I had the 3d gallery downloaded but it was so slow and glitchy, I removed it), more home screens(every home replacement has glitches) and a flash-player.. So it looks like this update isn't going to leave me still wanting..

 

[zenman77]

Wondering if iphone jailbreaker and nonjailbreakers squabble like we do?

 

[diverbelow]

So Verizon has updated their "System Update Instructions" link and the second picture on the right has the ESE53 but it is only 14.8 megs.

That must be huge compression going on for a new ROM

 

[scoder]

Its got a beautiful screen, you can't even tell that its got an underclocked snapdragon too. The only thing I didn't like was the blood red under the back casing.

 

[Se7enLC]

Here we go again..lol. Now watch Verizon pull this off their site, like Motorola did.....

Well, that will be tricky, considering that it's not actually ON any verizon or motorola site. The only "official" notice we have is photos of internal verizon documents. Nothing has been officially released to the public as far as I can tell.

 

[MontyMo]

Wondering if iphone jailbreaker and nonjailbreakers squabble like we do?

I would think not. The Apple world is a Perfect World where everything works and all live in harmony.

 

[blitzburgh39]

exactly. thats why ill have the official 2.1 over any other 2.1. its made by the people who made the phone. they know how to tweak it perfectly. ahhh i cant wait

 

[Se7enLC]

Here we go again..lol. Now watch Verizon pull this off their site, like Motorola did.....

Well, that will be tricky, considering that it's not actually ON any verizon or motorola site. The only "official" notice we have is photos of internal verizon documents. Nothing has been officially released to the public as far as I can tell.

I take it back, I guess it is on their site, but most people are linking to just images of the PDF hosted elsewhere. Here's the direct link:

http://support.vzw.com/pdf/system_update/moto_droid.pdf

 

[scoder]

I can verify that its coming through that schedule. Too bad its too damn late.