Official Motorola DROID 2.1 ESE81 Update Thread

[Friend-O]

Thanks, Humpa...I'll give it a go then.

[Celeras]

The dock clock and gallery are updated.

Dock clock is unchanged for me, what?

[Humpa]

The clock and alarm and the home dock are all different in 2.1
Go to apps and click on Clock (or is it Desk Clock?) - that is also the media/homedock now. That was NOT there in 2.0.1

[heantune]

Anybody tried their Bluetooth headset to confirm if voice dial through the headset still doesn't work, even with 2.1? Or, if by some miracle it has been fixed I would be delighted to hear that.

H

[SQFreak]

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I'll just leave it here:

Pete, creator of Bugless Beauty, just posted a rooted 2.1 OTA update.

http://alldroid.org/threads/16669-ES...U-amp-Baseband

It looks like you need to be at 2.0.1 rooted with SPRecovery to install it, so if you've gone up to 2.1, you need to flash down to 2.0.1 sbf, reroot, install SPRecovery, and then root with this.

To flash down to 2.0.1, follow the instructions here: http://alldroid.org/threads/15605-Un...one-using-.sbf

I can't find a link to a 2.0.1 root update.zip easily, but they should be around.

I don't plan to do this as I don't really need root for anything.

[Humpa]

Anybody tried their Bluetooth headset to confirm if voice dial through the headset still doesn't work, even with 2.1? Or, if by some miracle it has been fixed I would be delighted to hear that.

H

So far, only Moto Blur has that. It is not part of Android yet.

[-XIV-]

One other thing........

I know that with the old way of setting up the IMAP account settings for yahoo mail, if you were connected to the internet via WiFi and not via the cellular data network, then you could not access your yahoo mail. It looks like that is still the case.

Thank you for your clear input!

Seems like I'm not missing anything as I have a "yahoo.com" email & had the general email app set up already. Thought Yahoo now had its own dedicated app (ala Gmail) or ATLEAST had push notifications instead of interval

[Friend-O]

I have also posted the update.zip file here and with instructions.

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Manu...e-a_10510.html

The instructions should probably be amended, as my phone was rooted and I was able to update to ESE81 with no issues. Thanks for the update though!

[jwd45244]

I updated my Droid using the link FAUGuy provided. It worked perfectly.

[BloodThirsty]

So do you still get the OTA notification if you do a manual update?

[loco63]

darn it..... im the only one that cant get it to work. why the heck is it always me...lol

[SQFreak]

So do you still get the OTA notification if you do a manual update?

No, because this is what the OTA download will be if you were to get it. Your phone says to Google's servers, "I'm a Droid running 2.1 ESE81! Anything for me, number (MEID)?" The server says, "ESE81? No. You're good."

[BloodThirsty]

hmmmm ok, I may wait until I get the OTA update though. Knowing my luck I will surely screw something up.

[jseah]

Thank you for your clear input!

Seems like I'm not missing anything as I have a "yahoo.com" email & had the general email app set up already. Thought Yahoo now had its own dedicated app (ala Gmail) or ATLEAST had push notifications instead of interval

Yeah, if you already have your yahoo.com email setup already, you don't need to do anything. However, changing the yahoo mail server settings to the ones I posted (which is the settings that the 2.1 sets it up with) does fix the bug where sent mails written and sent using the handset will continually replicate itself in the sent mail folder every time it sync'ed.

[cybrwulf]

It hasn't been officially released yet. I'll post it here as soon as Verizon approves it.

Any chance of snagging that .sbf of ESE81 yet?