[Official] What Changes Have You Noticed After Updating to 2.2 (Froyo)?

[charlesbeebe]

I am also having the issue where when I receive a text and I use the pull down notification menu to access it its 7 hours off? Other than that small issue froyo is amazing!

I also noticed that when receiving a call, the answer and ignore sliders are much more responsive and easy to use. No more having to be precisely on target to answer!

 

[soapinmouth]

Why are they so low compared to the nexus one and incredible. Mine is hitting 14-15. Is the snapdragon cpu really more powerful then the omap?

 

[Doylerules826]

After the update, my Handcent messages are way off on their time stamps. My received messages are like 7 hours behind the real time.

Anybody else have this issue?

I deleted my old messages, seems to have fixed it

 

[tmushy]

I wondering the same thing my friends incredible hits like 35

 

[jreed2560]

as fun as it is to compare linpack/quadrant scores, I value real world performance over benchmarks any day.

 

[haevn]

most i got on linpack was 14.5 /cry

 

[tbert]

Don't worry guys, the low scores are caused by a bug. It was mentioned during a benchmark comparison between the newer Android phones and an N1 Froyo (which gets about 40 MFLOPS). The reviewer noticed the Droids having trouble running Linpack and I think the creators are looking into it. Too bad I don't remember where the article is, for now.

 

[jroc]

Yea I forgot, someone did an overclocking thread at another site. When we put Froyo on the Droid, he noticed Froyo handled sleep/standby better. Seeing how it got rid of the GPS bug most of us had, (where when u opened and closed an app using GPS, and the phone went to sleep, it wouldnt actually be sleeping) I would say it does work better on Froyo.

That might mean a lil better battery life with Froyo.

 

[uberdag]

Anyone know how to activate or did verizen keep it out?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

really weird one here...
my physical home button won't work now.
I'm sure it's a bug with the OS, just not a bad key... it wakes it up from sleep, but i can't use it to return home, which is obviously a large and important feature. also, i did *228, 1 and i'm still not getting 3G. hmm.

however, i do find that it's a lot more snappy. Everything is smooth, boot times are cut, gps seems good, etc.

 

[sic0048]

The keyboard knows that a single "i" is suppose to be "I" now. Small, but very useful change.

 

[chrlswltrs]

The keyboard knows that a single "i" is suppose to be "I" now. Small, but very useful change.

That is the main reason I bought better keyboard, I'm keeping it though because I like the skins and it still does a better job overall of auto correcting.

 

[kwest12]

Don't worry guys, the low scores are caused by a bug. It was mentioned during a benchmark comparison between the newer Android phones and an N1 Froyo (which gets about 40 MFLOPS). The reviewer noticed the Droids having trouble running Linpack and I think the creators are looking into it. Too bad I don't remember where the article is, for now.

Can you expand upon that a little bit more? Do you mean the Motorola phones (and their processors) have difficulty running Linpack? The reason I'm trying to clarify is b/c the Incredible is also a Droid (HTC Droid Incredible). Alternatively, maybe you meant that the Snapdragon phones are reporting much higher scores than what's really going on?

Either way I find this concerning... if you could come up with that article you're talking about I'd be much obliged

 

[cdtdelta]

I've noticed two things:

1) The Navigation shutting down issue is fixed. I've run it twice so far and the screen doesn't turn off.
2) When I move an app to the sd card, I lose the ability to run the apps widget. For example Pandora and Twidroyd.

 

[tbert]

Found it. Linpack is having trouble with OMAP.

http://www.androidcentral.com/droid-2-benchmark-tests

YouTube - Droid 2 benchmark tests

 

[kwest12]

As I'm allowing that video to buffer, I'll post someone else that just occurred to me: this version of 2.2 was ripped off a developer phone. I believe it was determined that the phone was released back in April, thereby inferring that this version of 2.2 is also a 4+ month old version. I mention this for two reasons:

1) I have read that some of the dev phones and tester phones had received Froyo without the JIT launcher (which is where the massive speed gains actually come from). I never did much checking to see if this was actually valid, but right now I'm sure hoping it is.

2) It is my hope that the version of Froyo that we'll being seeing about 5 months later (should release officially in September) will be much much different than what we're seeing from this hacked version. The chances that it will be much better seem pretty good to me...


EDIT:
Just watched the video. It seems like it's less than conclusive when it comes to whether or not Linpack has a bug. TBH it seems like it's just a "I feel like this is wrong" statement that really isn't supported. I hope he's right, but who knows.

The developer hasn't mentioned the possibility that there are issues either: Linpack GreeneComputing

 

[sodaboy581]

The Wireless Tether for Root Users should be all you need now. With Froyo, you can now use it to make an AP.

 

[jroc]

2) Thats normal for Froyo. Any app that uses a widget, the widget wont work anymore when u move it to sd card.

 

[cdtdelta]

2) Thats normal for Froyo. Any app that uses a widget, the widget wont work anymore when u move it to sd card.

Well that stinks. Defeats the purpose a bit of moving the app then.

 

[wharpig]

quadrant score?

1389

 

[bigworm410]

The new photo gallery is fantastic.

 

[jroc]

I think Apps2SD is supposed to be good for big files. Big files that dont use widgets. Like HR Battle 3D. Some of those 3D games can be big.

I havent really tried it alot tho. I wonder how would Google Maps do on the sd card.....

 

[pm1066]

I've noticed some high quadrant scores. First I ran after the upgrade were in the 1300s. After using root to remove some bloat, and I'm NOT saying this is why, but right after boot I'm getting mid 1900s to mid 2000s.

 

[bosox2k1]

I've noticed some high quadrant scores. First I ran after the upgrade were in the 1300s. After using root to remove some bloat, and I'm NOT saying this is why, but right after boot I'm getting mid 1900s to mid 2000s.

Did you alter the stagefirght lines in the Build.prop to get those scores?

 

[hahaha what]

switchpro's flashlight button doesnt work anymore