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Version 3 is the Official Update from Verizon???

Keyboard or not i'm sticking with swype after the last leak it was the first thing I put back on my phone.
 
Papadroid said:
Good point! I'm surprised then that the build number is identical. I hope they did make some tweeks to it do to the fact that some have had issues.:D

Now the question is will those on the leaks get the OTA? Of course we won't know until it's actually released.
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There ARE differences. pinch to zoom on google maps doesn't work on the leak, nor does the leak have speech to text. Those are both sweet needed things.

And hopefully it'll support the google CAR DOCK for the nav!
 
Frisco said:
That is common with beta software code that has not been cleaned up for final release.
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tonyb81 said:
The .pdf shows the phone getting a 77mb OTA, hopefully thats another good thing.
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Frisco said:
I have serious doubts if that leaked 2.1 is the exact same code as the release; it makes no sense at all.

The ROM designation is not the hallmark to look for; there is the actual size of the software and the md5 checksum or other hash stamp.
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Some of the folks that have been around for a little while might remember that the RUU/MRx updates for 1.5 were not quite identical to the OTA updates. The most obvious of these difference were that the OTA updates preserved most of the Sense customizations, user contacts, etc., where the MRx updates reset the phones to a factory state.

The so-called "leak" ROMs are applied in the same way as the RUU/MRx files - they wipe the phone back to "new software + factory" condition, whereas the OTAs from Verizon actually "patched" files in the live OS, rather than replacing everything outright - the OTAs were 4-6 MB, rather than 100 MB.

IMHO, there is no way that Verizon would push an OTA that did a factory reset; the enthusiast folks here or on XDA might put up with that, but the other 99% of Eris users would have a fit. That alone says that it will be different from leakV3. (In the OTA vs. MRx process on 1.5, Verizon tried to make the end results identical, but did not completely succeed at it - MR2 was slightly different from OTA 1.17.605.1 in some very subtle ways.)


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Looks like all the people that heard mid-May, might have actually got some good info. Now looking forward to the new things mentioned. How can you not love Android, with the constant anticipation. Unless that type of thing drives you nuts. lol.
 
All of those theorizing that this will not be 2.1, but maybe 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 please listen up.

1. Verizon already stated in an interview a few months back that the Eris was slated to get 2.1

2. All of these leaks come from Verizon. All of the leaks are of 2.1. We are already on the 3rd version of the leak. Verizon doesn't care that the leak gets out to a few people on a message board because it just means more free Beta testers for them

3. We get the leaks from Verizon because beta testers "Leak" them to the community.

So no more "what if it's not 2.1?" PLEASE.

Thanks and have a pleasant Friday :)
 
willdogs said:
All of those theorizing that this will not be 2.1, but maybe 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 please listen up.

1. Verizon already stated in an interview a few months back that the Eris was slated to get 2.1

2. All of these leaks come from Verizon. All of the leaks are of 2.1. We are already on the 3rd version of the leak. Verizon doesn't care that the leak gets out to a few people on a message board because it just means more free Beta testers for them

3. We get the leaks from Verizon because beta testers "Leak" them to the community.

So no more "what if it's not 2.1?" PLEASE.

Thanks and have a pleasant Friday :)
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2.2? :eek:
 
erisuser1 said:
Some of the folks that have been around for a little while might remember that the RUU/MRx updates for 1.5 were not quite identical to the OTA updates. The most obvious of these difference were that the OTA updates preserved most of the Sense customizations, user contacts, etc., where the MRx updates reset the phones to a factory state.

The so-called "leak" ROMs are applied in the same way as the RUU/MRx files - they wipe the phone back to "new software + factory" condition, whereas the OTAs from Verizon actually "patched" files in the live OS, rather than replacing everything outright - the OTAs were 4-6 MB, rather than 100 MB.

IMHO, there is no way that Verizon would push an OTA that did a factory reset; the enthusiast folks here or on XDA might put up with that, but the other 99% of Eris users would have a fit. That alone says that it will be different from leakV3. (In the OTA vs. MRx process on 1.5, Verizon tried to make the end results identical, but did not completely succeed at it - MR2 was slightly different from OTA 1.17.605.1 in some very subtle ways.)
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+1, fine post.
 
Also, If you guys remember, Google said that most phones that had a processor over 500 mhz WILL receive live wallpapers. I'm holding them to it, or I'm rooting whenever I can lol
 
moutaindewdope said:
Anyone know the signifigance of the date "March 16, 2010"?

Its in the Eris instructions for updating 2.1 >.> look at the notfication bar!
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The pix are test/examples.. they have to fill in the space on the notification bar with data for display purposes in the instructions.
 
It better not be the same release as v3! If it is and I'm still having to restart my phone everyday because of lost audio, I will be a bit T'd off if ya know what I mean.
 
In the leak ZIPs, the file that takes up the most space is system.img, which is packed to about 93MB. So it seems like Frisco has to be right: There's extra code in there that's stripped from the final release. (Or the OTA merely modifies the existing system.img instead of replacing it.) Also, the apps are separate from the OS. They're obviously going to bundle new versions of Maps, Clock, Gallery, etc. in the OTA package, whereas those weren't included in the leaks. I'm sure the build number has nothing to do with what apps are included. The total package is different, but the Android build is the same.

It's also worth noting that the PB00IMG.ZIP from RUU MR1 was about 97MB, but the OTA for that was also much smaller.
 
I step away for a few hours and...Wow...it's been officially announced (again)...

May the mayhem ensue all over again.


I'm still glad I flashed the leak two months ago...:D
 
AHHH!! Yay! I've been waiting so impatiently, finally patience is rewarded. Hopefully my not giving up 1.5 will mean that I won't be experiencing any of those leak bugs.

Happy day.
 
zerocool79346 said:
I really wish they would've put a date on that PDF cause this is going to start another series of riots on the boards about people asking when it's coming.
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mburdick said:
It better not be the same release as v3! If it is and I'm still having to restart my phone everyday because of lost audio, I will be a bit T'd off if ya know what I mean.
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How many people are still having the lost audio issue in v3? While it was a big issue for me on v1 and 2, it's fixed on 3.
 
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