Installing the OTA 2.1 file

andrew8806 · May 14, 2010

Shachren said:
Just downloaded the terminal emulator from market and tried to start up a superuser permission and it said "access denied" No I did not root. Any way i can trick it into thinking i did?

ummm no.... lol, if you didnt root... u will not have root access..

ad720 · May 14, 2010

Just jumped in! Deleting files...

Shachren · May 14, 2010

andrew8806 said:
ummm no.... lol, if you didnt root... u will not have root access..

Lame. Is there anything neat that i can do with it? Like disable sense UI or anything?

Mer2112 · May 14, 2010

Worked great, thanks!

trishuhh · May 14, 2010

andrew8806 said:
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I managed to install the recovery partition.

What good does this do me..lolz

Oh shizzzzzz, in the recovery mode, the name of the ota was update.zip.zip

I wonder...if I deleted the repeated zip, if it will let me install..

hmmmmmmm

Gato · May 14, 2010

Correct. It will not work if it is named .zip.zip .

I actually named mine "update" with no file extent and it worked just fine.

trishuhh · May 14, 2010

Gato said:
Correct. It will not work if it is named .zip.zip .

I actually named mine "update" with no file extent and it worked just fine.

hahaha no wonder so many problems just happened.

I reinstalled err'thing, and got my recovery back

The noobit is movin on up

I learned about terminal emulators and all sorts of stuffs today.
And decided I will probably wait until the ota is available on htc's or similar website..if they have voice to text. that is all I want.

rowe33 · May 14, 2010

Downloaded the file on my phone, moved it to the root dir of the SD card with Astro and the installation worked perfectly from 1.5. Thanks!

cmbrese1 · May 14, 2010

Just tested out the navigation. Worked like a charm!

ad720 · May 14, 2010

Mer2112 said:
Worked great, thanks!

So far, so good. Thanks everyone for their input!

jlrosell · May 14, 2010

trishuhh said:
hahaha no wonder so many problems just happened.

I reinstalled err'thing, and got my recovery back

The noobit is movin on up

I learned about terminal emulators and all sorts of stuffs today.
And decided I will probably wait until the ota is available on htc's or similar website..if they have voice to text. that is all I want.

They dont have voice to text. What you are getting here is exactly what will show up on the websites officially.
But you can get vooice to text right here
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/78614-speech-text.html
That thread was helpful, and the link to the download is in the 2nd post. Takes you over to xda where the file is.
I did both the OTA manually, and then added this today. Very easy, and I am clueless with this stuff. Just an average user.
But Im loving my 2.1, and loving the voice to text right now.

Mama Bee · May 14, 2010

jlrosell said:
They dont have voice to text. What you are getting here is exactly what will show up on the websites officially.
But you can get vooice to text right here
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/78614-speech-text.html
That thread was helpful, and the link to the download is in the 2nd post. Takes you over to xda where the file is.
I did both the OTA manually, and then added this today. Very easy, and I am clueless with this stuff. Just an average user.
But Im loving my 2.1, and loving the voice to text right now.

This is online (from Google):

[UPDATE] How to Manually Update Your Droid Eris to Android 2.1 | Android Phone Fans

trishuhh · May 14, 2010

jlrosell said:
They dont have voice to text. What you are getting here is exactly what will show up on the websites officially.
But you can get vooice to text right here
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/78614-speech-text.html
That thread was helpful, and the link to the download is in the 2nd post. Takes you over to xda where the file is.
I did both the OTA manually, and then added this today. Very easy, and I am clueless with this stuff. Just an average user.
But Im loving my 2.1, and loving the voice to text right now.

Okay thanks

I am also an average user, learning a lot every day.

Also, if the voice to text works for me, I will have no reason to lose root for the ota update yay!

andrew8806 · May 14, 2010

jlrosell said:
They dont have voice to text. What you are getting here is exactly what will show up on the websites officially.
But you can get vooice to text right here
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/78614-speech-text.html
That thread was helpful, and the link to the download is in the 2nd post. Takes you over to xda where the file is.
I did both the OTA manually, and then added this today. Very easy, and I am clueless with this stuff. Just an average user.
But Im loving my 2.1, and loving the voice to text right now.

I posted a link to the same exact file.. but i guess people didnt know how to get it to work... not sure...

Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

jlrosell · May 14, 2010

andrew8806 said:
I posted a link to the same exact file.. but i guess people didnt know how to get it to work... not sure...

Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

There were good directions in the thread I posted, and also on the XDA (where the download is) which is linked to in that thread.
I had to download Astro file manager in order to follow the directions, but everything all flowed very smoothly for me following the directions. You might not know what the hell they mean when you read them, but seeing the stuff as you do it makes it very easy to follow along.

gpa111 · May 14, 2010

Worked fine for me. Doing a factory reset to avoid problems.

Agreb · May 14, 2010

Update worked for me. I updated from stock 1.5.

shingouki1 · May 14, 2010

just did the up date about an hour ago, i gotta say this thing runs just fine. i got fed up waiting for the damn OTA. forgot to mention i came from stock 1.5 to 2.1

nintendoman · May 14, 2010

Doing the update, stock 1.5 here. Will post if all goes according to plan.

cmdesilets · May 14, 2010

Has anyone tried replacing the font file from 2.1 with a different one before starting the update?

I wonder if it would work...

nintendoman · May 14, 2010

nintendoman said:
Doing the update, stock 1.5 here. Will post if all goes according to plan.

All went well. Flawless upgrade. Took a long time to boot initially, but its working.

cmonster · May 14, 2010

YEE-HAW!
Again, thanks to all who figured this out. Worked like a charm.
1.5 stock -> 2.1 much snappier. Better to look at. YAY!

Be warned to all who have not yet, this DOES work but my screens totally reverted to stock. Back up your Android Home and HTC Home before hand so you can restore easily.I used MyBackUp Pro and backed up online. Restored from there no problem.

Otherwise, calendar is fine. contacts are there (no pics yet, but not worried as they apparently filter in over the first 1/2 hour.) Have to sign back in to FB, but not gmail or mail.app. A couple of shortcuts on my home screen give me a message that the linked program is no longer installed on my phone. But remove the icon and then re-add it and it's fine.

Man, this thing is positively zippy now!

WAH-WHO!

chaos67731 · May 14, 2010

Just gave this a shot..

I did a full wipe to keep my phone clean and after the update I can not install any apps from the market. It say I do not have the memory needed. Is anyone else having this problem?

Also if I go to boot the phone in to recovery mode to re-flash I keep getting an error. and can not do it. Does anyone know what the problem is with that?

Thanks

Blrfl · May 14, 2010

Another successful upgrade from 1.5.

Thanks for the how-to!

--Mark

shingouki1 · May 14, 2010

nintendoman said:
All went well. Flawless upgrade. Took a long time to boot initially, but its working.

thats when i got scared haha. it was stuck on the verizon screen a little too long for comfort lol.

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