On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:23:28PM -0400, Alan Snyder wrote: > > The only way to do updates outside of your vendor is to hack firmware > > NOT designed for your phone in. > > Not true... I downloaded Android 2.1, the official verizon ota > package, as a file onto my droid and there's some special key sequence > you hold down at power on and it updates with that new file > automatically. it's part of some restore feature.
No. You downloaded the 2.1 OTA update prior to the OTA being pushed to your specific phone. This was still the moto/vzw OTA and if they hadn't done it, you wouldn't have it. You cheated release dates, which is very different. If they had not made 2.1 available yet for your phone (such as for all the people with 1.6 devices with no current upgrade path) your options are: 1) Live with it 2) Load one of the community hacked ROMs cobbled from a bunch of different phones, and hope you didn't get a trojaned one. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "According to a study released Tuesday by the National Institute of Emotional Studies, laughter, long employed as a cathartic response to absurd or humorous stimuli, is now used solely to conceal contempt and fear from fellow human beings." -- The Onion
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