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

[dwoid]

Official and unofficial pretty much depends on your point of view... It's like being almost pregnant...

If you're Verizon, anything that doesn't come in the form of a live OTA feed from their servers is unofficial and represents a reason to void your warranty.

Of you're Moto or Google, there are other ways to do the upgrade and still be official for their needs. They don't deal with warranty issues.

If you're a ROM developer, everything has some official Android source in it from somewhere, whether it's in the form of raw code or in the form of leaked executables. No one is writing ROMs completely from scratch.

You need to choose what you want in features, and what you can allow your exposure level to be. That will help you help you determine whether to wait for the actual Verizon OTA or to manually install what's currently available, whether to root, whether to go stock or custom ROM, whether to theme, etc.

 

[hookbill]

With all of the checks that these patches are doing I think it'd probably be better just to use to official release at the Froyo site. Rooting is fun but if there's already a OFC release then should we just use it and save the time? What do you think?

I personally am staying rooted. I would lose too many apps if I didn't. Also I want to overclock, and you can't do that without rooting.

Now the speed of the new FROYO is 800 mhz, and I'm overclocking just 200 mhz more. I just want the freedom to do it.

 

[mec6250]

If we manually updated to 2.2 last week what does it take to get the latest? I am not rooted and don't care bout it

I did this today - downloaded the OP's file directly to the droid - deleted last weeks update.zip from the sd card - renamed the new file to updat.zip and followed last week's update directions (booted up holdig x and power button, got the triangle with exclamation pit, held volume up and camera button at same time, got a menu and used the D ad to move to "aply update"....)

 

[TechatCost]

Official and unofficial pretty much depends on your point of view... It's like being almost pregnant...

If you're Verizon, anything that doesn't come in the form of a live OTA feed from their servers is unofficial and represents a reason to void your warranty.

Of you're Moto or Google, there are other ways to do the upgrade and still be official for their needs. They don't deal with warranty issues.

If you're a ROM developer, everything has some official Android source in it from somewhere, whether it's in the form of raw code or in the form of leaked executables. No one is writing ROMs completely from scratch.

You need to choose what you want in features, and what you can allow your exposure level to be. That will help you help you determine whether to wait for the actual Verizon OTA or to manually install what's currently available, whether to root, whether to go stock or custom ROM, whether to theme, etc.

Ahh... I see. Thanks for the info. You too, Hook. TechatCost << Droidnewb.

 

[thatguy]

Thanks for the link jrummy, this worked for me.

ok.. saw this post and noticed it was way too time consuming for people who just want a rooted stock phone. Here is an update.zip that will give you root and symlinked busybox.

All I did was change some things in the updater-script that took just a couple minutes (you can install if already on any previous leak, symlinks busybox), add su binary and superuser.apk, busybox, and removed recovery image.

That's it.. hope this makes someone's life a little easier. Just install in sprecovery or clockwork.

Download it here

Also, cvpcs wrote a great little post on all this here

 

[zfly9]

So I did the manual "patch" a week ago or whatever. Got bored. Did the Easy Root. Then tried to apply this (in which I renamed to update.zip) and after trying to apply sdcard:update.zip I got:

E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Instaltion aborted.

 

[doctordoctor]

you need to delete the first .zip after update. you most likely did what i did and mistakenly have 2 .zip on the name. Dlete the 1st zip and retry.

 

[armeddroid]

Says its been removed.

and I type this from my Droid.

 

[zfly9]

you need to delete the first .zip after update. you most likely did what i did and mistakenly have 2 .zip on the name. Dlete the 1st zip and retry.

I had done this before I tried.. Any other suggestions?

Additional info: I did some SD card cleaning up prior to this, is anything else required on the card? I wouldn't think so...

 

[zfly9]

Oh I just saw this "That's it.. hope this makes someone's life a little easier. Just install in sprecovery or clockwork." and that's the file I downloaded

I have no clue how to do this!

 

[doctordoctor]

not that I know of. I usually trasnfer from computer to download folder on sd card. then copy it and hit "up" button. I then find file again long click push edit and then rename. I then move cursor next to "." of the ".zip" part and delete all the file name leaving ".zip" behind and then just add update in front of it.

 

[esaslaw]

and then, on top of all of this, a few of us have stumbled into this on the VZW web site: Mandatory System Update: DROID by Motorola

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I wouldn't feel right if I didn't say anything. I realize a lot of people are putting their blessing on this as the official and I'm running it myself. However according to an admin in this forum, this isn't the real deal.
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So if what I'm hearing is correct, the real update will go out with Flash preinstalled.

Only time will tell. And I might as well throw this in hear too, I'm hearing the OTA's could start as early as tomorrow.

All of this may not be true, but how come only 1 person has received the OTA? I don't know this person, but I understand that he has a great reputation and he has nothing to gain in lying so I'm not accusing him of any deception. But wouldn't more people come forward saying they received it? Unless I missed it I haven't seen anyone report that they received it today.

I'll just feel better about all of this if someone else reports receiving the OTA.

If anyone else, just one person can confirm they have received this OTA then I'll consider it bad information and delete this post. But I think it's only fair that I let you know what I'm hearing.

When Froyo was released OTA we had the file that was going out. Well, we linked to it but nevertheless that was what they were releasing and then they stopped.

Now the story about this version available now is that it was released OTA and is much larger then the original FRG01B. The question is, why hasn't anybody else received this OTA? How come just one person received it.
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In the big scheme of things it doesn't matter, but someone please clarify for me....it started rolling out and then stopped, then started again and stopped again and now is supposed to start again today? Over the weekend I had heard from a Verizon rep that the OTA was supposed to be complete by August 13th. The misinformation/lack of information makes me think big conspiracies really are possible; maybe there was someone on the grassy knoll.

This has been asked repeatedly, I'll ask again but with this added point: with over 100,000 members of this forum, has anyone here received the over the air OTA, any version of the OTA (I don't mean getting it from the OP)? I find this extremely hard to believe.

 

[Wadman]

I will ask this again since I didn't get an answer. Why when I click on the link on the first post of this thread does it not download to my phone? I click on it, it starts to download, then it says not supported. Any help would be awesome...

 

[billyk]

So am I correct to say that no one has confirmation when the OTA might occur?

I'd prefer not to manually install or root.

 

[cereal killer]

So am I correct to say that no one has confirmation when the OTA might occur?

I'd prefer not to manually install or root.

nobody knows is correct...a lot of speculation and rumors abound though.

The most accurate timeframe that I heard of is "it will be here when it gets here" : )