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

[furbearingmammal]

So When are they sending 2.2 actually. I still have 2.1 and its 8/13. Checked my phone and it says my phone is up to date.

It is still being rolled out. Estimates say it will be done by the 18th of this month. There are a lot of Droids out there that updates are being pushed to. If you don't want to wait for Froyo, you can do a manual update with the update file posted in the other thread I believe.

Or the one in the OP. For manual installs this one seems to be better because it's a cleaner install method. However, if you don't think you could handle the install or don't wish to do it yourself, the updates are supposed to be done before the 18th, which is the same day the first final build of Flash is supposed to hit the market.

Then the next update rollout will begin with an updated 2.2 build.

 

[Osprey]

Well I have accomplished what this thread is about so just a few more questions and I will go back to observation mode. I have searched the net this morning and really haven't found what I'm looked for on "Battery Temperature" for the Droid 1. I did see someone post somewhere As long as the battery stays below 120 deg. F it will be OK, and the Temperature for the Cortex A8 processor below 160 deg. F does this sound correct?

It is amazing how throttled back the processor is on the Droid 1 at 550mhz when people are running it over 1.0ghz I will be investigating how to speed it up past 800mhz (where I have it running now) a little later. I need to play with other stuff first. One more thing. I have as of now the WiFi Tether for Rooted phones working but is there any WiFi app out there that supports better than WEP encryption for the Droid 1?

 

[furbearingmammal]

Well I have accomplished what this thread is about so just a few more questions and I will go back to observation mode. I have searched the net this morning and really haven't found what I'm looked for on "Battery Temperature" for the Droid 1. I did see someone post somewhere As long as the battery stays below 120 deg. F it will be OK, and the Temperature for the Cortex A8 processor below 160 deg. F does this sound correct?

It is amazing how throttled back the processor is on the Droid 1 at 550mhz when people are running it over 1.0ghz I will be investigating how to speed it up past 800mhz (where I have it running now) a little later. I need to play with other stuff first. One more thing. I have as of now the WiFi Tether for Rooted phones working but is there any WiFi app out there that supports better than WEP encryption for the Droid 1?

Lithium Ion batteries don't like being over 140 for any length of time. Go much higher than that and you risk thermal runaway and possibly even fire (but I think you need over 200 for that. Don't quote or trust me without backup on that temperature) -- remember those exploding laptops? The CPU itself will take 150, the motherboard may not.

Some people have it running at 1.3GHz, though those are few and far between, which if you'll look is what the latest leaked specs for the Droid Pro are -- IIRC. The Droid 2 comes from the factory with a 1GHz A9 processor. Most people can clock to 1.0 or 1.1GHz without a problem on the A8.

In regard to WiFi encryption, go to the Google source and download the latest PRE release. The ones on the market are old.

Downloads - android-wifi-tether - Project Hosting on Google Code

Keep an eye on it, because as soon as someone manages to enable infrastructure mode instead of ad-hoc it'll be posted there.

 

[jeffe65]

Did you click the Problems button to download the latest version of BusyBox? That is the last thing I can think of.

Also make sure you click Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging

Tried both, but no luck. Not sure where the "Problems" button is, but the BusyBox installer got me the latest version (1.18.0). So far, this is the only glitch I've run into since moving to 2.2, and it may not even be due to that.

Okay, got it working. I hadn't added the widget; which now makes perfect sense why that fixed it - duh! Thanks for your help...

 

[Osprey]

You are the best FURBEARINGMAMMAL...that is info. I can use!

 

[LifeIsABeach]

Did you click the Problems button to download the latest version of BusyBox? That is the last thing I can think of.

Also make sure you click Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging

Tried both, but no luck. Not sure where the "Problems" button is, but the BusyBox installer got me the latest version (1.18.0). So far, this is the only glitch I've run into since moving to 2.2, and it may not even be due to that.

My bad. I think that was part of EasyRoot and not SetCPU. Installed too much the last few days. So when you reboot you go back to the 600 mhZ default and have to start up SetCPU to get to the 800?

 

[jcortes]

so why is this update so much larger than the previous one? 76.9 MB vs 45.2? Not to mention almost all sites (androidcentral and droid-life) all still have instructions on how to install the 45.2 MB version. How big is the OTA update? Am I missing something?

 

[bluezdawg]

So who has the droid 1 and put this new 2.2 update on and did not have any problems doing it. I just want a good clarification before I decide to do it.

It works fine.

So does this build have the 7 screens like the D2 ?
Why not ?
Latest build you would think it would have 7 screens . dancedroid

Five screens. If you want more try ADWLauncher. As far as I know it's one of the few replacement launchers that doesn't have an issue with FroYo.

Agree with ADW... I am using it with FroYo, no issues yet... althought I've only updated yesterday

 

[xinunix]

so why is this update so much larger than the previous one? 76.9 MB vs 45.2? Not to mention almost all sites (androidcentral and droid-life) all still have instructions on how to install the 45.2 MB version. How big is the OTA update? Am I missing something?

The Theory is that the 2 updates are basically identical from a functional perspective (same features, bug fixes, etc.).

The 76.9 MB version appears to be a complete update of the /system folder. It does a clean install of the OS, almost like a wipe and load (but only of the OS files, not your apps and data). It also has scripts that allow you to update to 2.2 from any previous version of android where as the smaller one only supports 2.1 to 2.2. Speculation is that the 76.9 MB build was put out to make it easier for Verizon to manually update phones that were brought in vs having to apply SBFs to get to 2.1.

The 45.2 version only contains the files that are required to be updated to get your phone to 2.2. So instead of a wipe and load, it just touches the files in your system folder that have to be updated to bring the OS up to 2.2.

the best analogy I have heard is imagine you are running Windows XP on your PC now and you want to upgrade to Windows 7. Microsoft always supports 2 options, one to "upgrade" by just replacing key system files and the other is a clean install of the new OS.

Personally I always prefer a clean install so I did cleared my app cache and did a manual update using the 76.9 MB version in the OP of this thread.

After the update my phone sucked hard for several hours. But after several hours of letting it sit and "bake in" I came back, rebooted my phone one more time and it has run like a rock star ever since. If/when you get this update, don't be surprised if it makes your phone really slow for a while, I think the key is to give it time to sync everything and rebuild those caches.

 

[furbearingmammal]

so why is this update so much larger than the previous one? 76.9 MB vs 45.2? Not to mention almost all sites (androidcentral and droid-life) all still have instructions on how to install the 45.2 MB version. How big is the OTA update? Am I missing something?

This update has scripts and various other things in it that do this, that, and the other.

Reportedly it'll update 2.0 and 2.0.1 and not just 2.1 update 1 to 2.2. Furthermore, as reported so often in this thread I can see the words in my mind whenever I close my eyes, it replaces the complete system rather than hacking and patching the old system. Several people have used it to "update" FRG22 to FRG01B.

Net result is a "cleaner" install that often solves lag and instability issues encountered by some users with the original OTA, whether it was installed manually or after it was dropped on their phones by Verizon.

I should keep count of how many times this has been mentioned so I can compare it to the number of new gray hairs I've been finding.

 

[jcortes]

great thanks for taking the time to explain! I appreciate it!

 

[bluezdawg]

The settings you've made for SetCPU are pretty standard. If your Droid doesn't eat overheat, batteries or start boot-looping you could probably leave it that way. 800MHz is a pretty safe speed for most Droids.

You may want to get a custom kernel for Wireless Tether, faster overclocking and other reasons... If you do overclock faster than 800MHz, that's when you really need to pay attention to SetCPU.

Now that I have successfully updated to 2.2 Just curious...
1.) As I recall, you need to be rooted to use SetCPU. Is there any utility available to bump up CPU speed for non-rooted phones running FroYo

2.) Is there a way to get Flash 10.1 for Android (even if beta) can't find a download on Adobe site.

Been making it a point to use the heck out my Droid since updating yesterday and it is running incredibly well! Thanks to all of you that have provided guidance, you rock!

 

[furbearingmammal]

The settings you've made for SetCPU are pretty standard. If your Droid doesn't eat overheat, batteries or start boot-looping you could probably leave it that way. 800MHz is a pretty safe speed for most Droids.

You may want to get a custom kernel for Wireless Tether, faster overclocking and other reasons... If you do overclock faster than 800MHz, that's when you really need to pay attention to SetCPU.

Now that I have successfully updated to 2.2 Just curious...
1.) As I recall, you need to be rooted to use SetCPU. Is there any utility available to bump up CPU speed for non-rooted phones running FroYo

2.) Is there a way to get Flash 10.1 for Android (even if beta) can't find a download on Adobe site.

Been making it a point to use the heck out my Droid since updating yesterday and it is running incredibly well! Thanks to all of you that have provided guidance, you rock!

1. Yes, you have to be rooted. Sort of.

2. You have to download and install the .apk manually.

 

[bluezdawg]

The settings you've made for SetCPU are pretty standard. If your Droid doesn't eat overheat, batteries or start boot-looping you could probably leave it that way. 800MHz is a pretty safe speed for most Droids.

You may want to get a custom kernel for Wireless Tether, faster overclocking and other reasons... If you do overclock faster than 800MHz, that's when you really need to pay attention to SetCPU.

Now that I have successfully updated to 2.2 Just curious...
1.) As I recall, you need to be rooted to use SetCPU. Is there any utility available to bump up CPU speed for non-rooted phones running FroYo

2.) Is there a way to get Flash 10.1 for Android (even if beta) can't find a download on Adobe site.

Been making it a point to use the heck out my Droid since updating yesterday and it is running incredibly well! Thanks to all of you that have provided guidance, you rock!

1. Yes, you have to be rooted. Sort of.

2. You have to download and install the .apk manually.

Do you by chance have a link to a site that you can download the Flash .apk from? Been looking, cannot find it anywhere. Saw a note to look in market place. is not there. Thx in advance!

 

[furbearingmammal]

I'm pretty sue this isn't the latest version but it's the first result in my Google search.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jndmmz2xjjt

If it shows in the market after you install (I'd check to make sure) it might let you update.