Official 2.2 Froyo OTA thread

[SonicBoom]

Applications
�� The Froyo version of the Android OS is designed to provide improved application performance.
�� Froyo gives you the option to Allow automatic updating for Android Market apps you download.
�� Froyo brings the ability to rotate your phone up to 270

 

[mach330]

can you rotate anything both ways? i noticed with my dinc i still can't rotate youtube or any videos both ways, but everything else seems to rotate either direction.

 

[SonicBoom]

can you rotate anything both ways? i noticed with my dinc i still can't rotate youtube or any videos both ways, but everything else seems to rotate either direction.

this was sent to me from one of my sources inside BigRed so im not sure about the specifics but i would guess it means you can turn your phone up to 270

 

[beangrower]

question is when?

 

[ECFfighter7232]

question is when?

+1 lol

great to know what exactly we will be seeing though.

 

[lexluthor]

How about getting your source to tell you when now?

 

[SonicBoom]

How about getting your source to tell you when now?

do you think i said " i dont want to know when, i just want to know what is changing"...lol

 

[acoastal]

do you think i said " i dont want to know when, i just want to know what is changing"...lol

Yes?


j/k thanks for the info

 

[kevroc]

I like how they repeat the features so it sounds like more stuff...

�� Froyo gives you the option to Allow automatic updating for Android Market apps you download.
�� You can choose to automatically update Android Market you download. This way you will always have the latest application installed.

�� Froyo brings the ability to rotate your phone up to 270

 

[HalfFrozen]

I don't care what it does, I just want it to be released with a crack in its damn shell!

 

[Got Droid]

Looks like the Droid X will be a better phone after 2.2 update. Why is it one of the last phones on the block to get the update. Is it a Big Red thing?

 

[Wake4x4ptball]

Verizon Nuked Froyo's Hotspot, Built-In Tethering


im pissed

 

[urdaddi]

Verizon Nuked Froyo's Hotspot, Built-In Tethering


im pissed

But really.....what do you expect Verizon to do?

 

[Travisimo]

Applications
􀂅 The Froyo version of the Android OS is designed to provide improved application performance.
􀂅 You will see improved video playback and applications will open faster and tasks will complete quicker.
􀂅 Froyo allows you to download and install Adobe Flash so you can view your favorite Flash powered websites and access Flash based games.
􀂅 Froyo enables the LED flash during video capture.

These are the ones I'm looking forward to. To be honest, I'm not really that excited about Froyo - it seems like a pretty minor update, and hopefully will not cause more problems/bugs. More importantly to me is whether we will get Gingerbread in a timely manner after it's released! Of course, by that time, I'll probably be upgrading to another phone anyway, hehe.

 

[Steven58]

Good find! Thank you!

 

[tsanuri]

Verizon Nuked Froyo's Hotspot, Built-In Tethering


im pissed

Even when google announced it they said it would be a carrier by carrier choice to enable it. And we all should have known then that they would disable it so they could sell their own service.

 

[Travisimo]

The article you posted was specifically for the original Droid, not the Droid X. They say it's because the hardware doesn't support it, blah blah blah. The Droid X will always have tethering, but no, you will not get it for free unless you root and use one of the WIFI tethering apps.

Same thing on Sprint, though. You have to pay for the Hotspot service unless you root and/or use other roms. You can pretty much expect all carrier Android phones coming out from now on will have tethering available, but only through their paid service (unless you hack). We might not like it, but it's no different than charging large amounts of money for text messaging when it only uses a minuscule amount of data. They are trying to protect their business model.

 

[Ed5275]

Looks like the Droid X will be a better phone after 2.2 update. Why is it one of the last phones on the block to get the update. Is it a Big Red thing?

It's been out barely three weeks. And one update has already been sent. Relax.

 

[mxrider821]

Motorola DROID Android 2.2 (Froyo) update ready for manual download Boy Genius Report


now that the Evo and the Orginal Droid just got 2.2 Froyo that has to mean that is coming very soon for the x right?? i hope so!

 

[iamfiretruck]

Root>VZW

 

[Wake4x4ptball]

ill root after 2.2 released

 

[chrlswltrs]

I hope so, I just manually updated my daughter's Droid to 2.2 today. The sooner the better, even though I will probably wait to upgrade my X until we can root 2.2, but the sooner it's released the sooner we will get root.

 

[Travisimo]

They are still saying "late summer" for the X, which means most likely September. I'm sure they want to push the Droid 2 over the next few weeks, and launching with 2.2 is a major selling point. They've already got us early Droid X adopters. August would be nice, though!

 

[ZXMustang]

Bottom line, the Droid was OVERDUE for froyo. Im glad they got it, and now its our turn.

 

[Lars]

I like how they repeat the features so it sounds like more stuff...

�� Froyo gives you the option to Allow automatic updating for Android Market apps you download.
�� You can choose to automatically update Android Market you download. This way you will always have the latest application installed.

�� Froyo brings the ability to rotate your phone up to 270