ALERT! 2.2 FroYo Circus continues...FRG01B is Official get it here.

[AllFallsApart]

We are pleased to announce the new Android™ 2.2 software update for DROID by Motorola. The new Android 2.2 (FRG01B) software update includes new features and tons of shortcuts. It’s like downloading a new phone.

For optimal performance, we encourage you to download and install this latest software update.

Who Can Use This Release
ALL DROID Motorola users.

After downloading and installing the FRG01B software release, you will notice:

Enhancements:

Improved Web browsing with Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta for Android, which will be available for download via Market.
New security options including remote device wipe and device lock, password complexity and minimum password length.
New tips, shortcuts, and assistance from a homescreen widget help users better navigate their phones.
Easily switch between the eight most recent applications.
Bluetooth® voice dialing displays your verbal instructions and repeats them back.
Switch between letters, numbers, and symbols with a touch-screen swipe.
Camera’s video mode now uses LED flash, and on-screen buttons make it easy to control zoom, white balance, focus, exposure, and geo tagging.
Camcorder functions also provide easy to use formatting for uploading to YouTube™ or MMS.
Enhanced browser performance for faster loading of JavaScript¬ heavy pages.
Rotate the screen 270 degrees to work with apps in any direction.
Check USB connectivity status at a glance with a color ¬coded widget.


Improvements:

Improved security with numeric and alphanumeric password options.
Enhanced audio quality.
View PDFs and Microsoft® Office files sent from Outlook® 2003, Yahoo!,® and Outlook
Express email accounts, as well as TXT file attachments fromVerizon.net email accounts.
Keep original home¬page icon locations after an over-¬the-¬air update.
Easy shortcuts for access to the phone, application launcher, and browser from any of the five home screens.
Management of password policies for Microsoft Exchange administrators across all devices.
Sync your Exchange email account to your phone and auto- complete recipient addresses.
Support Exchange calendars in the Calendar application.
Edit recurring Corporate Calendar meetings with a large number of invitees.
Improved picture management for photos sent to Droid via Bluetooth.
Use the Voice to Text feature while rotating the device from portrait to landscape.
Improved Hotmail® sync for accounts with a large number of emails.
Streamlined efficiency in Microsoft Exchange Active Sync® Corporate Calendar for meeting notices.
Use Music Player and Visual Voicemail simultaneously.
Improved Motorola Corporate Directory application.

Source: Motorola

From Motorola Site, part of the page reads:

For optimal performance, we encourage you to download and install this latest software update.

That's worded as if we can manually do it from their site. Surely they mean when we get the OTA notification, correct?

I'm still too paranoid to manually update my phone or do anything to void my warranty. If I screw it up, I can't afford a replacement phone for the near future.

 

[cereal killer]

Time will tell if this "full" version works better than the "patched" version, though I didn't have too many issues to speak of with last week's FRG01B.

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

 

[BUFFALOMADMAN]

do you have to be rooted to do this update manually

 

[oatmealboy]

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

Just did the search, and Flash is still not there for me.

 

[drpaul07]

We are pleased to announce the new Android™ 2.2 software update for DROID by Motorola. The new Android 2.2 (FRG01B) software update includes new features and tons of shortcuts. It’s like downloading a new phone.

For optimal performance, we encourage you to download and install this latest software update.

Who Can Use This Release
ALL DROID Motorola users.

After downloading and installing the FRG01B software release, you will notice:

Enhancements:

Improved Web browsing with Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 beta for Android, which will be available for download via Market.
New security options including remote device wipe and device lock, password complexity and minimum password length.
New tips, shortcuts, and assistance from a homescreen widget help users better navigate their phones.
Easily switch between the eight most recent applications.
Bluetooth® voice dialing displays your verbal instructions and repeats them back.
Switch between letters, numbers, and symbols with a touch-screen swipe.
Camera’s video mode now uses LED flash, and on-screen buttons make it easy to control zoom, white balance, focus, exposure, and geo tagging.
Camcorder functions also provide easy to use formatting for uploading to YouTube™ or MMS.
Enhanced browser performance for faster loading of JavaScript¬ heavy pages.
Rotate the screen 270 degrees to work with apps in any direction.
Check USB connectivity status at a glance with a color ¬coded widget.


Improvements:

Improved security with numeric and alphanumeric password options.
Enhanced audio quality.
View PDFs and Microsoft® Office files sent from Outlook® 2003, Yahoo!,® and Outlook
Express email accounts, as well as TXT file attachments fromVerizon.net email accounts.
Keep original home¬page icon locations after an over-¬the-¬air update.
Easy shortcuts for access to the phone, application launcher, and browser from any of the five home screens.
Management of password policies for Microsoft Exchange administrators across all devices.
Sync your Exchange email account to your phone and auto- complete recipient addresses.
Support Exchange calendars in the Calendar application.
Edit recurring Corporate Calendar meetings with a large number of invitees.
Improved picture management for photos sent to Droid via Bluetooth.
Use the Voice to Text feature while rotating the device from portrait to landscape.
Improved Hotmail® sync for accounts with a large number of emails.
Streamlined efficiency in Microsoft Exchange Active Sync® Corporate Calendar for meeting notices.
Use Music Player and Visual Voicemail simultaneously.
Improved Motorola Corporate Directory application.

Source: Motorola

From Motorola Site, part of the page reads:

For optimal performance, we encourage you to download and install this latest software update.

That's worded as if we can manually do it from their site. Surely they mean when we get the OTA notification, correct?

I'm still too paranoid to manually update my phone or do anything to void my warranty. If I screw it up, I can't afford a replacement phone for the near future.

Yes pretty sure they mean when you get the OTA notification.

 

[hookbill]

Reset

Well, I've had Jrummy's FRG01B installed for about 4 hours now and I just watch my Droid reset while it was sitting in my dock, not doing anything.

That worries me just a bit. I can't say I've never seen it reset but it's only happened once or twice since I've had it and I got it in November.

 

[DocWalt]

So far, the clean install has smoothed out my phone tremendously. Even after just one hour on the patch install, the phone was sluggish, especially on the homescreen. The clean install is much smoother, and everything is much more responsive. Hardware keyboard seems to work correctly too now, which is very nice. *knock on wood*

I have no idea where FRG22 came from, but I'm going to stop worrying about it now

 

[RW-1]

Time will tell if this "full" version works better than the "patched" version, though I didn't have too many issues to speak of with last week's FRG01B.

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

C'mon CK, not fair, there have been threads saying that they'll have flash in market for froyo on the 18th or somethin ...

 

[cereal killer]

Time will tell if this "full" version works better than the "patched" version, though I didn't have too many issues to speak of with last week's FRG01B.

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

C'mon CK, not fair, there have been threads saying that they'll have flash in market for froyo on the 18th or somethin ...

lol RW-1 I was honestly curious if it would show up....

When I ran a build of Sapphire it showed up for me. Thus the question

At any rate I didn't come across any post that mentioned it (somebody probably did but I didn't see it)

 

[furbearingmammal]

do you have to be rooted to do this update manually

Since I have to type more than ten characters to make a post -- no.

 

[subsynth]

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

C'mon CK, not fair, there have been threads saying that they'll have flash in market for froyo on the 18th or somethin ...

lol RW-1 I was honestly curious if it would show up....

When I ran a build of Sapphire it showed up for me. Thus the question

At any rate I didn't come across any post that mentioned it (somebody probably did but I didn't see it)

yes flash showed up for me to on a build of sapphire, but most of my other apps did not. I'd rather have the bulk of my apps show up legitimately and install flash manually than the other way around.

 

[Pdigg]

Well, I've had Jrummy's FRG01B installed for about 4 hours now and I just watch my Droid reset while it was sitting in my dock, not doing anything.

That worries me just a bit. I can't say I've never seen it reset but it's only happened once or twice since I've had it and I got it in November.

I so badly want to root my phone again, but now I use it for work and just can't risk random reboots (even though as you say, they were usually few and far between).

More importantly I guess, my phone would probably be offline half the time because I was flashing new ROMS. hehe

 

[cereal killer]

yes flash showed up for me to on a build of sapphire, but most of my other apps did not. I'd rather have the bulk of my apps show up legitimately and install flash manually than the other way around.

I STRONGLY agree : )

I don't even care about Flash to be perfectly honest.

 

[RW-1]

search the market and see if Adobe Flash shows up.

C'mon CK, not fair, there have been threads saying that they'll have flash in market for froyo on the 18th or somethin ...

lol RW-1 I was honestly curious if it would show up....

When I ran a build of Sapphire it showed up for me. Thus the question

At any rate I didn't come across any post that mentioned it (somebody probably did but I didn't see it)

lol interesting, how he'd get that to happen ?

I'm not worrying about this one, FRG22 is fine with me, with the exception of GG, which may yet be a kernal issue, not with the build.

Oh yeah, I got root explorer today to ditch astro and the other file managers, love it....

Bring on Gingerbread!

 

[jntdroid]

yes flash showed up for me to on a build of sapphire, but most of my other apps did not. I'd rather have the bulk of my apps show up legitimately and install flash manually than the other way around.

I STRONGLY agree : )

I don't even care about Flash to be perfectly honest.

+1 - haven't found much good use for it except to simply say "I've got flash on my phone" and then pat myself on the back... It sure doesn't run real smooth, but maybe that'll change by the time it's "officially" released.