Will the 22D update be a OTA update? I haven't gotten that yet is why I am asking. Now if I did a phone reset, that is going to wipe everything off the phone including contacts and apps and everything huh? Hmmmm not sure I want to go that route just yet! LOL!
Yes, it will start you out as if you just bought your phone.
You contacts and calendar are sync'd with your GMail account (along with your phone settings - WiFi access points, etc.) so they will be restored. Your apps
should automatically start installing within a few minutes of you entering your Google account info.
The process is pretty much automatic, but I
do recommend that you get SMS Backup & Restore by Ritesh S. to restore your SMS.
You call logs can only be restored (AFAICT) if you either have an app like WaveSecure or else if you are rooted and use Titanium Backup or MyBackUPPro.
TBH, even if you are hesitant about doing this, you really
should - all your apps were installed under a 2.1 or 2.0.x OS, and 2.2 changes the way a lot of things are done - so reinstalling your apps would be a good thing.
I did a factory reset after I forced FRG01B because my phone was acting glitchy. Before you do this check the two boxes in Settings/privacy 'Back up my Data' & 'Automatic Restore'. If you have a home replacement that allows you to save your homescreens do a backup before you factory reset.
Once you reset the phone will reboot and you will have to reactivate your phone (less than a minute) and sign back in to all of your accounts. (this will get you your contacts) at this point (if you checked 'automatic restore') your phone will start downloading all your apps back to your phone.
All this took me less than an hour to get everything back to normal. I even got rid of some stuff I never used.
By the way I had about 140 apps.
Now I am running FRG22B with Zeam launcher and I've had no problems now that I've gotten rid of my task killer
All good advice. If you connect to WiFi right after your WiFi settings get restored, your installation of apps will go that much faster too....