Android 2.1 Finally Makes It To Droid

MrSmith0011000100110 writes "The lovely people over at AndroidCentral have broken the announcement that Android 2.1 is finally coming to the Motorola Droid, with actual proof on Verizon's Droid support page (PDF). I don't know about my Droid brethren, but I'm pretty excited to see the new series of Android ROMs for the Droid phone that are based on a stock Android 2.1. As most of us know, the existing 2.1 ROMs can be buggy as hell and either running vanilla 2.1 or a custom ROM; but this phone is still a tinkerer's best friend."

Already use DroidMod

[Aequitarum Custos]

which has all the features 2.1 has that I found useful Multi-touch + Picasa Gallery + Google Earth!

Re:I am quite happy!

[GweeDo]

Nandroid full backup of your stock 2.0.1 install. That is all you need. Something isn't working, just flash back to that and it will even rewrite your recovery image if you want it to. Verizon will never know.

Re:Too bad it won't work in Canada

[ajlitt]

Today is your lucky day: N1 for 3G 850/1900/2100 [google.com]

Re:What?

[sbeckstead]

I use Mac OS because it's cool and I like to use it. I use Windows cause it pays the bills. I use Linux because it's a neat hacker OS and it's cool too. But Windows still pays the bills. I'm working on fixing that but until we switch I'm stuck.

Re:Help...

[loconet]

Knowing is half of the battle [blogspot.com].

Re:Too bad it won't work in Canada

[shutdown -p now]

Motorola Milestone is a GSM variant of DROID that's offered in Canada. So far exclusive to Telus, though.

And yesterday, Google has released a variant of Nexus One that works on AT&T 3G frequencies in U.S., which means that it also works in Canada. And, yes, they do ship to Canada. You can only order an unlocked one online, though, not subsidized via any operator.

Re:Bitchin Bagle is where it's at.

[nschubach]

FYI, the SholesMod guys moved onto DroidMod [droidmod.org]. Not sure if you followed any of that.

Re:Flash?

[BatGnat]

They back-tracked and said that full flash ten will only work on phones that have an ARM v7 Cortex processer, so only newer phones get it (Droid, N1)
http://www.androidauthority.com/index.php/2010/02/26/adobe-flash-10-will-not-support-first-generation-android-devices/ [androidauthority.com]

Re:Too bad it won't work in Canada

[Anonymous Coward]

Milestone is not only the gms version of the droid.. is the locked version with a signed bootloader. we cannot run custom roms and motorola we told motorola about it and they just dont care about it.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/22962?tstart=0

Re:Super.

[Anonymous Coward]

I had the same worries before I switched. Sadly some of what you mention is reality. The market is fragmented and apps that exist for one phone may not exist or work for another. The other thing I've found is that apps that do exist on both phones, trapster for example, have a shadow of the functionality on the moto droid as they do on the iphone. Some of this may be technical but some of it is definitely not. The player really makes me miss itunes smart playlists and ability to manage the files.

With that said, I don't miss the conformist attitude that the iphone presents. I jailbroke for very few reasons. Five Icon dock, tether and categories. Apple could easily satisfy the aesthetics part of my wants but refuses to do so. AT&T won't officially allow tether. It's too troubling to mess with so now I've got a droid and love the freedom it presents.