http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/ Engadget Comments for Some Droid Eris owners getting Android 2.1 update? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/

It is. Verizon still claims that it is in a friendly testing phase. ]]>Feb 17th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
I would find that frustrating as a user. Just my personal take. But thank you for illustrating my point.]]>Feb 17th 2010 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Fortunately, with Android, it isn't very hard to bypass the automatic updating system if you don't like it for whatever reason. Simply rooting your phone (a ~10 minute process) stops the automatic updating and allows you to have more control.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Sometimes you can find the file for the update on the google's server (at least for the phones with vanilla Android) and you can apply the update yourself. I like the older way better too.

I think the argument for OTA is that it doesn't require a computer and they can directly push it to consumers so everyone is up to date. And as another person mentioned, they don't have syncing software so it is hard to get users to update without OTA.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 18th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://sundialbridge.org/ErisUpgrade.jpg
Meet Upgrade 3.1-29 :P]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Yes, but the only method I know of (nandroid) involves rooting. Rooted phones don't get OTA updates anyway so that's irrelevant I guess.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/And us eris owners don't even have root yet so.....]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
Probably means that along with the online synching that you should use Astro or something to backup your apps.]]>Feb 18th 2010 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/I'm running it at 950 MHz right now but I usually stay right at 800. The ROM I'm using only allows me to go up to 1 GHz.]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
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Bad report...shouldnt even be up...shaking my head :(]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://sundialbridge.org/ErisUpgrade.jpg]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
It kept my contacts (through Gmail, of course), and kept vids and pics. I lost my customizations and, strangely enough, all of my extra apps.

I was just happy that most everything was there, but aren't the apps installed on the SD card, or are they actually in the phone memory?]]>Feb 17th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
They're not installed to SD on any of the non-rooted phones. Use Astro or some similar backup program to backup the apps to your SD card. You'll have to go through and reinstall each one, but it takes far less time than re-downloading them. BUT, apps installed from SD don't automatically update through the market. So there's a trade-off. Plus, the "acting up" could be due to the "app limit" on the Eris and other Android phones. Something to do with how Android handles app installations. Around 70-100 of them, you could start getting an X over your signal bars and lots of force closes. Uninstall any apps you don't use until that behavior stops. You do NOT have to do a hard reset for that. If you could install to SD, it wouldn't be a problem. Google says they plan to address that in an update sometime. But until then, you have to do a little app management.]]>Feb 18th 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2eb5teh&s=6]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elDD2mxE4ak]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2eb5teh&s=6

Seems to be true ... almost unbelievable.]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Android-Devices/You-got-to-read-this/td-p/161090]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 17th 2010 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/some-droid-eris-owners-getting-android-2-1-update/Feb 18th 2010 12:17AM