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

THier said:
Wife called me from ome today,, said her Droid had an update,, and it was dead after the update. She just called from the VZ store,, they said Droid went bye bye. They said it was the 2.2 update that killed it. Glad mine is rooted.

Tom
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Wow, Verizon had 2 chances of getting Froyo right. :icon_evil: What ever happened to quality control? They should've taken their time like for 2.1. :angry:
 
Mother received update yesterday morning, and I just received mine at 1am today :D Update was smooth and very fast, the phone is having some difficulties getting my GPS location and is at the same speed as before... i'm going to restart it to see if that'll help.
 
colorfulRhyme said:
Mother received update yesterday morning, and I just received mine at 1am today :D Update was smooth and very fast, the phone is having some difficulties getting my GPS location and is at the same speed as before... i'm going to restart it to see if that'll help.
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Congratulations! It's been just a bit of a haul for you, huh? :)

I hope it all works out!
 
anewday said:
THier said:
Wife called me from ome today,, said her Droid had an update,, and it was dead after the update. She just called from the VZ store,, they said Droid went bye bye. They said it was the 2.2 update that killed it. Glad mine is rooted.

Tom
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Wow, Verizon had 2 chances of getting Froyo right. :icon_evil: What ever happened to quality control? They should've taken their time like for 2.1. :angry:
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I'm starting to think a lot of the problems (aside from download errors) are stemming from the 2.2 kernel, which is clocked higher by default than the 2.1 stock kernel. Some phones just can't be pushed faster than 550/600MHz. They're rare, but they do happen. The new kernel will clock up to 800MHz, and, well, if the phone can't do that it can't do that.

As such, it's not Verizon's QC that should be called into question, it's why Motorola didn't spec the Droid out at higher clock speeds before they bought all the chips that barely passed the 550MHz mark.
 
furbearingmammal said:
colorfulRhyme said:
Mother received update yesterday morning, and I just received mine at 1am today :D Update was smooth and very fast, the phone is having some difficulties getting my GPS location and is at the same speed as before... i'm going to restart it to see if that'll help.
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Congratulations! It's been just a bit of a haul for you, huh? :)

I hope it all works out!
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I know, this has been a killer :P
Froyo is running wonderfully on my phone, however, I will have more time to poke and prod later today, as it is 1:40 am here :P
So far its running great on my mom's phone, which is a relief... I was more worried about her, as I'm the more tech savvy, and I'm the one she goes to with problems.

So far though, I'm not having problems now... a little bit faster, I want to test the battery life, and see how the GPS works now. FB had some problems syncing, but that was an easy fix. I can't wait to tinker!
 
Just thought i'd add to the statistics. I used the update at the beginning of the thread. I rooted the easy way, though If I can find a thread with current links, I want to try without a "1 click" app after I reload the update.My phone isn't running any faster. Its actually really slow. But it was they last couple months on 2.1 also. I seem to have a shoter battery life as well. I love that I can use bluetooth dialing again. I like the asthetic changes and well as more multitasking, more screens, being able to install to SD. it is a bit annoying that I have to keep te "car dock" app open to keep the screen on, but I know there are work arounds for that. I'm not thrilled about having my work schedule mixed in with my personal schedule either. I like the seperate apps. But I do like that the email program conncted to exchange now reads from Global Adress Book for contact searches. All in all, I like the update, I just need to figure out whats up with my lag.

Oh, and my friend received the OTA update which bricked his phone. He got stuck with the large "M" staring back at him and is getting a new phone shipped to him. Good times.....
 
solar said:
J

Oh, and my friend received the OTA update which bricked his phone. He got stuck with the large "M" staring back at him and is getting a new phone shipped to him. Good times.....
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Yeppers,,, EXACTLY what the wifes phone did. The "M" would appear on the screen,, stay for 30seconds or so,, go away, come back,, rinse and repeat.:)

My rooted Droid (Sapphire) is running great,, I don't know if it is like one of the previous posters stated that the problem is with some of the chips not liking 800mhz, but our phones were ordered the same,, so I would GUESS the processors came from the same batch. Dunno.

So,,, is there any advantage to unrooting the phone and going with the VZ Froyo? I would guess no?

Tom
 
furbearingmammal said:
anewday said:
THier said:
Wife called me from ome today,, said her Droid had an update,, and it was dead after the update. She just called from the VZ store,, they said Droid went bye bye. They said it was the 2.2 update that killed it. Glad mine is rooted.

Tom
Click to expand...

Wow, Verizon had 2 chances of getting Froyo right. :icon_evil: What ever happened to quality control? They should've taken their time like for 2.1. :angry:
Click to expand...
I'm starting to think a lot of the problems (aside from download errors) are stemming from the 2.2 kernel, which is clocked higher by default than the 2.1 stock kernel. Some phones just can't be pushed faster than 550/600MHz. They're rare, but they do happen. The new kernel will clock up to 800MHz, and, well, if the phone can't do that it can't do that.

As such, it's not Verizon's QC that should be called into question, it's why Motorola didn't spec the Droid out at higher clock speeds before they bought all the chips that barely passed the 550MHz mark.
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Is this why the phone heats up more and the battery drain's faster?....I had a sneaking suspicion that was the case.
 
anewday said:
Wow, Verizon had 2 chances of getting Froyo right. :icon_evil: What ever happened to quality control? They should've taken their time like for 2.1. :angry:
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VZ came to Droid boards,,, and saw everyone crying about "when will Froyo be released" so they pushed it out.

KIDDING,,

just thought it was funny.
 
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