Yup leave off the .zip and it 5 minutes you be :yeahbaby01::woot::yr1:
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New Findings and Fixes thread for Droid 2.0.1 OTA updates
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Yup leave off the .zip and it 5 minutes you be :yeahbaby01::woot::yr1:
HTGamingPC
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It fixed a bug where the left channel would crackle whenever the volume was cranked all the way up for music.
windstrings
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I have speedtest.net app installed...
before the update.. my 3g speeds were equivalent to normal dsl speeds...783 down, 324 up...994 down and 166 up.
Now after the update I occasionally still only get 800 - 900 download but I also get as high as 1660 also! with 450 upload....
not too shabby!
My wi-fi is only 2570 down and 1031 up
After the update its about the same.
windstrings
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Here are some instructions.
I can email the file to you if your having trouble getting it.
Isn't tonight supposed to be the night that everyone else gets the update?
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My google maps is noticeably faster, and I'm not one to praise the droid just because I bought it. When i scroll quickly through the map each section loads within 5 seconds.
Also I dunno if anybody said this, but besides the nicer dark widgets and calendar widgets, the facebook widget is smaller and sleeker.
EDIT: My Facebook sync'd contacts seem to have split off from their same contact info with phone numbers, not sure how to fix this. Sync is turned on.
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mynameiserich
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I have noticed major changes. I use the GDE home screen replacement app with the "cube" effect, which uses a lot of the phones power, and before the update it would lag a lot. Especially right after turning the phone on. The same with the notifications section. Now that is ALL fixed...it all works smoothly. Also when I opened contacts sometimes it would take for ever to load or I would have to close out and reopen to show them...now this works flawlessly. I havent had problems with the screen staying black during a phone call either. And I personally think the lock screen is much better. Before I couldn't use the battery for more than 10 hours (with gps, location based services and apps, etc. on - and im sure some of this is battery conditioning since I got the phone last week), but my battery went from 1230 in the afternoon until 245 this morning....something I would have NEVER had before...
It might be your BB charger. I spend a lot of time entering text while plugged in with the original charger and I've never had an issue.
I've read a number of posts on funny things happening with non-oem chargers and even got a car charger as part of a package that acted a bit funky.
I got the update overnight (probably around four-ish; I'm a night owl), and after noting some of the claims here, I'll share my experience thus far:
Scrolling on the home screen, notification panel included, are smooth as silk for me. Moving quickly from the home screen (e.g., coming directly from an app) and drawing down the notification panel creates a little bit of lag, but again that's under the circumstance of jumping quick from one thing to another. It does very much seem that the OS is reallocating its resources more efficiently.
Can't comment immediately on increased WiFi speeds, as I've got a bit of network traffic going on (for reasons I'm sure you can guess. And it isn't porn, you dirty robo-pervs), but I can test that later.
I have experienced no back-lighting issues on the physical keyboard; I did not need to reboot. The improvement to the virtual keyboard in landscape mode is fantastic, and I've had significantly fewer missed letters.
The camera is much improved. I was unlucky in that my auto-focusing on near-field objects (barcodes, primarily) never worked itself out; this update fixed that problem.
I re-synced manually in the sense of turning off all my syncing and back on, and in the case of Facebook, I had to log back in. I used the built-in app for this, curious to see if or how it had improved. To me, it seems improved, if only slightly; nothing feature-related that a cursory glance revealed. I never got to see my friends' feeds in a chronologically appropriate order, and now it feeds as an accurate timeline. I experienced no problems with my contacts.
Googamaps (as my young nephew pronounces it) does seem to load much more rapidly. I have not as yet tested the directions.
And finally to the browser. It has indeed become choppy. In my experience, in briefly testing a few full-feature and mobile-optimised sites, the choppiness and lag is intermittent. You'd expect a more robustly designed site to cause more problems, and that's certainly the case, but it sometimes almost feels as if the system is having trouble freeing up the resources pushing the pixels for the really multimedia-rich areas. Scrolling can go from choppy to smooth within the same page, I've noticed, depending on how much stuff is going on within the part of the site you're viewing. I had this very forum scrolling quite nicely, but a site like Boy Genius Report (the non-optimised version) is a nightmare. Aside from all that, I'm not getting any unreasonable load times for pages.
My guess is that Google/Moto/VZW will get wind of the browser issue very soon, and will work very quickly to tackle it. Perhaps it will be resolved in the next update (January 11-ish), but I can't see the issue going unresolved for that long if there's a groundswell of agitation. Then again, it might. I'd remind everyone that we're very fortunate to being in a situation where the fixes for this thing are pushed out as quickly and proactively as they are.
Anyhow, good luck to the rest of you lot. I'm very confident that this will be taken care of. If you think of ironing a shirt or some such apparel, there are times when ironing out a wrinkle may create a wrinkle elsewhere in the shirt. Let Google keep ironing.
Mods: apologies if this post doesn't fit with the intended topic. Moderate as you will.
Scrolling on the home screen, notification panel included, are smooth as silk for me. Moving quickly from the home screen (e.g., coming directly from an app) and drawing down the notification panel creates a little bit of lag, but again that's under the circumstance of jumping quick from one thing to another. It does very much seem that the OS is reallocating its resources more efficiently.
Can't comment immediately on increased WiFi speeds, as I've got a bit of network traffic going on (for reasons I'm sure you can guess. And it isn't porn, you dirty robo-pervs), but I can test that later.
I have experienced no back-lighting issues on the physical keyboard; I did not need to reboot. The improvement to the virtual keyboard in landscape mode is fantastic, and I've had significantly fewer missed letters.
The camera is much improved. I was unlucky in that my auto-focusing on near-field objects (barcodes, primarily) never worked itself out; this update fixed that problem.
I re-synced manually in the sense of turning off all my syncing and back on, and in the case of Facebook, I had to log back in. I used the built-in app for this, curious to see if or how it had improved. To me, it seems improved, if only slightly; nothing feature-related that a cursory glance revealed. I never got to see my friends' feeds in a chronologically appropriate order, and now it feeds as an accurate timeline. I experienced no problems with my contacts.
Googamaps (as my young nephew pronounces it) does seem to load much more rapidly. I have not as yet tested the directions.
And finally to the browser. It has indeed become choppy. In my experience, in briefly testing a few full-feature and mobile-optimised sites, the choppiness and lag is intermittent. You'd expect a more robustly designed site to cause more problems, and that's certainly the case, but it sometimes almost feels as if the system is having trouble freeing up the resources pushing the pixels for the really multimedia-rich areas. Scrolling can go from choppy to smooth within the same page, I've noticed, depending on how much stuff is going on within the part of the site you're viewing. I had this very forum scrolling quite nicely, but a site like Boy Genius Report (the non-optimised version) is a nightmare. Aside from all that, I'm not getting any unreasonable load times for pages.
My guess is that Google/Moto/VZW will get wind of the browser issue very soon, and will work very quickly to tackle it. Perhaps it will be resolved in the next update (January 11-ish), but I can't see the issue going unresolved for that long if there's a groundswell of agitation. Then again, it might. I'd remind everyone that we're very fortunate to being in a situation where the fixes for this thing are pushed out as quickly and proactively as they are.
Anyhow, good luck to the rest of you lot. I'm very confident that this will be taken care of. If you think of ironing a shirt or some such apparel, there are times when ironing out a wrinkle may create a wrinkle elsewhere in the shirt. Let Google keep ironing.
Mods: apologies if this post doesn't fit with the intended topic. Moderate as you will.
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