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Has anyone actually received a legit OTA update?

The Google release said "This update will be rolled out gradually to phones - and most users might not receive the notification until the end of the week."

No idea why the delay except maybe to have a few users ensure there's no disaster with a bad update.

Also no idea where the "force" update came from.

Thank you.

The force update is about downloading the patch itself and applying it to your sdcard manually.
 
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The OTA update will be staggered. I remember when 2.0.1 rolled out for the Droid, only 10k people got it the first day, then a little more the second, and so on.

So of course, a lot of people got it the first day (Engadget did as they had a video up almost immediately), and it is because of those people's phone logs that we were able to backtrace the link that's posted up in the force guide.
 
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The OTA update will be staggered. I remember when 2.0.1 rolled out for the Droid, only 10k people got it the first day, then a little more the second, and so on.

So of course, a lot of people got it the first day (Engadget did as they had a video up almost immediately), and it is because of those people's phone logs that we were able to backtrace the link that's posted up in the force guide.


so given the nexus sales figures and based on the droid update numbers, every nexus should have had the update by yesterday lol
 
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Got it on the first day, early too. Update priority is obviously not geographically based, since I'm in Thailand.

It's reversed geographical. Small markets will receive it first because a NYC rollout, for example, could be a major problem if the update starts causing trouble on phones.

This is also why I don't force update. If there are issues, I'll wait for them to clear it up instead of forcing a faulty update onto my phone.
 
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Don't forget that those in test markets such as the UK may have bought their Nexus One direct from Google as there may be no carriers selling them yet. As such, there is no operator to "push" the update and therefore a manual update needs to be done or the phone may login to Google and offer the user the option to "pull" an update.
 
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Don't forget that those in test markets such as the UK may have bought their Nexus One direct from Google as there may be no carriers selling them yet. As such, there is no operator to "push" the update and therefore a manual update needs to be done or the phone may login to Google and offer the user the option to "pull" an update.

Actually plenty of users on foreign carriers have reported getting the update which would imply that the update is carrier independent.

And to answer the OP - I'm in NYC and have yet to get the update...
 
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