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OTA 2.1 Has started..

Not if you booted into recovery. And also if they file is already there right now, he doesn't even have to turn the phone off in the first place.

At this point it seems this user is probably not familiar with a lot of what we are asking of them. I personally don't even want the update but I wouldn't want to ask them to do anything they aren't comfortable doing.
 
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adb would be the best bet as long as he could boot the phone with the SD card in, and my first thought was to put the SD card in the phone after booting but after looking at mine, you can't get the card in with the battery in, forcing you to boot it with the card already in place.


But he could use the charger as the battery... Meaning you can use your phone w/o a battery as long as it's connected to a charger. So he could boot up without the sdcard, plug it into a charger, pull the battery and put the sdcard in without rebooting the phone
 
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so reboot the phone with the sd card out and when it is on you can put the sd card in the phone and mount it/// or put it in an old phone or a friends phone or anything but the droid (mp3 player) and copy it over

Just a thought, but how would one remove the sd card while the phone is on? The batter blocks it. I suppose you could force it in at an angle, but that could possibly break the SD card...

**EDIT** Sorry, you guys answered that as I was posting...
 
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Damn! I was going to edit that too! But I'm just a bit to tired to care..lol...I have been watching both the 2.1 threads, and the Desire X2 thread over at alldroid all day...I guess I should stop posting now...Heh

haha, i'm not sure which is more sad
1. checking spelling
2. waking up at 6am to check for the modern warfare 2 map pack
3. waiting till the weeee hours of the morning for 2.1..

guess i'm just a big bucket o' sad.. haha
 
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The OTA will not be in the root of the memory card, this is not like a manual update. All OTA updates are, and have always been stashed in /cache/.

After you download the update (assuming you are rooted) do this in terminal emulator "ls /cache/" and you will see a file ending in .zip.

From their run this "cp /cache/<whatever the zip's filename was>.zip /sdcard/"

Mount the sdcard, copy over the update.zip, post it here and hello 2.1...
 
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