Android 2.1 Update Rolls Out For Motorola Droid!

[SSHGuru]

My wife and I have been using the Voice to Text from the HTC Keyboard APK we installed (it's better), and it's worked wonders. VERY accurate.

WOW, the voice to text feature is great. It sure helps speed up relpies to text messages.

 

[elowe65]

Not sure if it's been brought up already, but has anyone that has done the update notice any diff in battery life???

I have and it seems to be far better as now, towards the end of day, where it would normally be 15-20% i'm now at only 40-50% with the same amount of use...

Just curious if anyone else has noticed the same..

 

[wahrenjie]

Unrelated probably an app went bad. I do battery pulls every so often. Not a big deal unless it happens frequently then you gotta find the offending program.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[SSHGuru]

Yes the battery now lasts about twice as long. Wallpapers don't take up much of any power. Right now the things that are taking the most power are Voice and Display.

And yes the screen is sharper than it was before.

Not sure if it's been brought up already, but has anyone that has done the update notice any diff in battery life???

I have and it seems to be far better as now, towards the end of day, where it would normally be 15-20% i'm now at only 40-50% with the same amount of use...

Just curious if anyone else has noticed the same..

 

[MiXoLoGiSt]

Damn i'm so tempted to do it Manually but i don't want to receive a notification OTA if i do it manually and be screwed. And don't want to miss out on future OTA updates.

 

[stmomma]

Damn i'm so tempted to do it Manually but i don't want to receive a notification OTA if i do it manually and be screwed. And don't want to miss out on future OTA updates.

Hang in there MiX, I'm holding out too. Not sure why other than I just don't wanna jump on the "Gotta have it now" bandwagon. Only 4 hrs and 20 min, until the next phase starts, so maybe then.

 

[adrynalyne]

You won't. The OTA update thats leaked is the same thing. People who are updating OTA--their phone is getting it from the same link that it was found at.

 

[JCo352]

Damn i'm so tempted to do it Manually but i don't want to receive a notification OTA if i do it manually and be screwed. And don't want to miss out on future OTA updates.

You won't recieve the OTA if you do it manually, because it will already show your system is up to date. And for future updates, you will still get them, because it will them show your system as out of date.

 

[JLB09]

Does anyone know when the next update might roll out? Will it be tonight after midnight again, or will there be another 24 hour wait in between?

 

[JCo352]

Does anyone know when the next update might roll out? Will it be tonight after midnight again, or will there be another 24 hour wait in between?

Tonight there will be another 200,000.

 

[JLB09]

Does anyone know when the next update might roll out? Will it be tonight after midnight again, or will there be another 24 hour wait in between?

Tonight there will be another 200,000.

Thank you so much.

 

[SSHGuru]

Stop worrying about future updates if you do it manually it has no effect on whether or not you will get them.

All you are doing when you do it manually is getting the same software as you would get from the OTA...

People did the manual update on 2.01 and they are getting the 2.1 OTA now... it's not an issue.

 

[steelercraze]

how do u get notified for this

 

[Droid101]

how do u get notified for this

You do nothing it will just pop up on your phone.

 

[eepthegeek]

Anyone that is still waiting, why don't you do it manually? It's the same exact thing, and it's really easy. I got it about 5 minutes after they released the update.zip and couldn't be happier.

Why not manually? Because I really don't care to do it. Just like I don't care about doing the "R" thing to my phone either.

When I get it, I get it. I was never in the "need-the-latest-thing-right-now" club.

I debated the OTA vs. manual update options. Then my Droid made my decision for me. When I shut it down a couple of nights ago, it rebooted and stayed stuck at the Moto logo. I did endless battery pulls and tried to restore to different backups. When they didn't work, I did a hard-reset. When even that didn't work, I did another hard reset, downloaded and installed the 2.1 update.zip file on the Droid, then rebooted. It booted up beautifully into 2.1 and after re-entering my gmail account and re-downloading the apps I use, the Droid is back in bidness! :icon_ banana: