{"id":576038,"date":"2010-05-23T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/23\/google-confirms-froyo-launch-has-begun-manual-update-available\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T09:25:00","slug":"google-confirms-froyo-launch-has-begun-manual-update-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576038","title":{"rendered":"Google confirms Froyo launch has begun, manual update available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/106107-froyo-2-2-hed-img-rm-eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chances are you already know about Google&#8217;s decision to roll out Froyo only days after they said they&#8217;d be rolling it out in a &#8220;few weeks.&#8221; &nbsp;But if you own a Nexus One (the first device slated to receive the update) and have yet to receive your update, there&#8217;s a reason for that. &nbsp;Apparently this roll-out will be &#8220;slow&#8221; and &#8220;staggered,&#8221; which means that while it will eventually make its way to all N1s it may not happen right away. &nbsp;According to <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, it appears that members of the press who received N1s at the Nexus One launch event may be receiving updates first, but one thing is for certain, Google has officially confirmed &#8220;The roll out to Nexus One devices has begun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, you don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d leave those of you who haven&#8217;t received the update without a solution do you? &nbsp;Thanks to the folks over at <em>Phandroid<\/em>, we&#8217;ve got instructions on how you can manually update your N1 to Android 2.2. &nbsp;Of course, these directions come with the obvious warnings such as: install this update at your own risk, and please (for the love of G-d!) make sure you backup your device first. &nbsp;Also, according to <em>AndroidandMe<\/em>&nbsp;this update is only confirmed as working on T-Mobile N1s, and if your N1 is currently rooted you need to get it back to stock. &nbsp;Alright, enough of the formalities, go get your Froyo on!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the directions (courtesy of <em>Phandroid<\/em>):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the Android 2.2 firmware for the Nexus One &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/android.clients.google.com\/packages\/passion\/signed-passion-FRF50-from-ERE27.1e519a24.zip\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rename the file update.zip and copy it to your microSD card via USB. [Note: make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.]<\/li>\n<li>Power down your Nexus One<\/li>\n<li>Hold down the &ldquo;Volume Down&rdquo; button as you power the phone back on.<\/li>\n<li>A screen should appear showing your phone&rsquo;s system searching for various files. Scroll down to &ldquo;recovery&rdquo; and press the &ldquo;Power&rdquo; button.<\/li>\n<li>When you see the triangle with an exclamation point symbol, press the &ldquo;Power&rdquo; and &ldquo;Volume Up&rdquo; buttons at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>From the menu that appears, select &ldquo;Apply sdcard:update.zip.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li>When the screen displays &ldquo;Install from sdcard complete&rdquo; select &ldquo;reboot system now&rdquo; and wait for the phone to power back up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For those of you who plan to wait it out (and I can&#8217;t blame you if you do) here&#8217;s a walkthrough thanks to the folks at <em>AndroidCentral<\/em>, to give you a taste of what you can expect to receive, in time.<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;531mrieo2p4&#8243; }&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to manually update, let us know how it goes. &nbsp;If you don&#8217;t, let us know about that too!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/22\/android-froyo-launch\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)\">TechCrunch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/phandroid.com\/2010\/05\/22\/manually-update-your-nexus-one-to-android-2-2-froyo\/\">Phandroid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/05\/news\/how-to-manually-install-android-2-2-on-your-nexus-one\/\">AndroidandMe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6vvpj9VJD7YkLD2HqD4xoTXZ4jA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6vvpj9VJD7YkLD2HqD4xoTXZ4jA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6vvpj9VJD7YkLD2HqD4xoTXZ4jA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6vvpj9VJD7YkLD2HqD4xoTXZ4jA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/3MNm-Dia-CQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you already know about Google&#8217;s decision to roll out Froyo only days after they said they&#8217;d be rolling it out in a &#8220;few weeks.&#8221; &nbsp;But if you own a Nexus One (the first device slated to receive the update) and have yet to receive your update, there&#8217;s a reason for that. &nbsp;Apparently this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}