Originally Posted by jazercise

ok guys seriously i tried for about 4-6 hours. i went into the verizon store to see if they could do something about it. they couldn't. i thought i'd help out those who have tried. If you are waiting around for the update and still haven't gotten it by 12/22/09 forget it you are not gonna get it. verizon forgot about your sorry ass and decided your business was not important to them. so here's what you gotta do. do it yourself. now you've decided that doing the forced manual update is the way to go. but when you tried renaming the file to update.zip and you were careful to make sure you showed the file extensions then you still got the error message and it still didnt work you thought there was no way you were going to get it. WRONG. what you gotta do is, save all your contacts onto your sd card or by saving it on google. then you need to wipe your entire phone and let it reboot, then you reactivate your phone with verizon after you have cleared your cache and wiped it. then go to settings/about phone/check for updates. WAAALAAA. it should be there. you may have to reboot it several times and wipe it several times before you are given the update. i guess what happens is verizon "forgets" that you need it and doesn't send it to you. but eventually ifi you reboot enough times it realizes and sends it to you. it took me about 6 hrs to figure this out so i hope this helps you. i now have the 2.01 update.
of course if you can do the forced update then do it, its easier. this way is just for those who can't force the update.