Android 2.2 (Froyo) release date?

[Malyshus]

Not sure if anyone else out there has been following up on the 2.2 Release information on a regular basis but so far all I can find for a comment on the release is from Motorola(below). 

“We’re excited to see Google’s news of the next version of the Android operating system and look forward to integrating it on our Android-based devices as it’s made available to the open source community.

While I can’t comment on specifics, we do expect DROID by Motorola users will receive Android 2.2 as a software upgrade in the near future.”

Is there any way that we can get something in regards to the update? 

So far I have been unsuccessful in locating any official statements from Verizon in regards to this at all.  Can anyone point me in the right direction if I have happened to overlook it by chance?  I find it hard to believe that there is no information that can be provided concerning a highly anticipated update for what has been their "flagship" Android device.

Surely someone can give us something, I'll even take a "We hope to release it in a month, but we're not sure" right now.  After all the delays with 2.1 it really makes you wonder...

[onewithshadows]

Actually I was just reading today that "it is expected in July." Though, that of course is probably not concrete. I would say just go to Google and search for 2.2 froyo update. You should find all of the most current news post on the update. As far as I am aware though there has been no "official" word of the release date yet. I am also hoping it comes soon after I get my Incredible though.

[Malyshus]

Yeah I watched the Google I/O Conference on 5/19 & 5/20 in which they announced it's release.  It has come out for Nexus One users already and has been released to all of the developers to start engineering applications for it.  I saw a lot of exciting features with the OS and hope that carriers intend to distribute this to as many devices as possible to maximize everyone's android experience.

I am really hoping to get any word I can from someone here at Verizon on the matter because I do not intend to wait for months on end for this release as well.  If needed I will definitely root the phone and load a  custom ROM as those developers are able to get their products out months before the carriers release them.

I am eagerly awaiting the time that I can move my applications to the SD card for installation and don't have to have them Saved and Run from within my phone's RAM, not to mention the JIT compiler boosting application performance.

[sranger]

Unfortunately, it is going to be a much longer wait that June/July....  I doubt Verizon is going to allow Wifi tethering unless they figure out a way to charge for it.  I fear that this will delay the update well into the the end of this year of possibly next year....

This delay is going to be very political.....

[MrHost]

I doubt the teethering issue will be a delay for verizon. There are quite a few that use apps to do the same thing. Anyway, all they have to do is tell HTC, um no teethering for our customers and wam, fixed. No issue, problem resolved. Is the MiFi device that much more than what I pay for my data plan. I don't think so, there is no reason Verizon shoudl even block this feature. On a side note, the SD card for app comment made above. Based on the demos which try and access that feature, they haven't been successfull. Google has commented the feature has been available in android already, but the apllication devloper has to include it as an option. Unless the developer includes it, I don't believe you can move just any app. Engadget had the froyo demo and he was unable to move any of the apps on his phone. I think it is awesome that motorola is planning on offering froyo on their droid. I'm doubtfull it will be offered on the Eris, but I am happy with mine and I can wait and see what new hard ware offers. I have my new every two in a couple months and may quite possible wait longer than that.

[Malyshus]

I am hoping that the tethering doesn't get blocked as well, I don't really see a need to do so honestly.  In regards to other phones getting upgraded to the 2.2 OS, I personally think that with the addition of the JIT compiler and the fact that the new OS increases the MFLOPS count of most phones by 300+% all phones should get this as a base OS.

I have yet to see the Engaget demo of the OS, all I was able to see was on the Google I/O conference this year which it ran smoothly (no doubt to testing and planning ahead of time).  Either way I anxiously await the OTA update for the new OS.

[sranger]

Keep in mine that from the time Google released version 2.1 it was nearly 5 months until the Droid recieved version 2.1....

I seriously doubt that this update ( which has a feature verizon hates ) will be any faster...

First Motorola will have to signt off on the new version then it goes to Verizon.  They test it ( and demand that Moto remove anything they don't like ) and test some more,  and some more, etc....

Several months later we get the update...   That is just how it works....

This is why I prefered the Google sales model....  I would have much rather had a Nexus One of Verizon so that you could actually get the updates in a timely manner....   I guess that is why Verizon refused to carry the N1.  It would take them out of the update loop.

[AZSALUKI]

i'm with sranger on this. look for it NEXT YEAR....lol. it's a shame, but it will be some time before we see 2.2. and the tethering will be an issue. a big feature of the incredible is that it can tether (for a fee). vzn won't allow this and maybe the previous post is correct? they can just say "no tethering for our customers." but it still seems like that would cause even more delay? of course, i really have no idea what i'm talking about.....it just seems like that would be an issue?

[bneals]

How so?  I believe that the Nexus One was the first phone to sport Android 2.1 and it was released on January 5, 2010.  My Droid received 2.1 in March.  Where are you getting 5 months from?  Are there Droid owners that still haven't received 2.1?

I agree that it will take some time, but 5 months or next year is just silly.  Verizon will test it and I agree, will likely remove tethering.  What I don't get is why people are killing Verizon.  Sure, I want 2.2 right now too, but we are going to get a free update for our phone and it will likely come before any Sense UI or other custom UI's get theirs. 

[AZSALUKI]

it depends on your phone i believe. droid eris users just got 2.1 and if it came out in january, then it's been 5 months. htc appears to be behind in the update??? so who knows....maybe we'll get it next month or maybe by the end of the year? i really know nothing about this stuff, but if you look at the topics, it appears that half of them (in the past week) have something to do with the droid eris and the 2.1 update, so i'm assuming that eris users just got the update??? and that moto users got it 2 months ago??? i 'm not killin vzn for this....i'm just not gonna hold my breath for updates...and am espcially not going to count on being able to use my phone as a hot spot. that's all.

[MrHost]

If they remove the teethering option, it will be downloadable somewhere else. Kind of a waste to try it based on how open android is. IMO

[BurtReynolds]

I am fairly new to Android, so maybe this is a misguided question.  If Google offers a wireless hotspot with 2.2, but Verizons disables it, would a program like {Keep it Legal} now work as a hotspot without rooting since Google essentially opened this up in the main files?  It would seem to me, that unless Verizon sits down and rewrites the 2.2 code, they wouldn't be able to completely close the door on this feature Froyo would be shipping with.  Maybe they would rewrite the code.  They need to get those thethering fees somehow.  The tethering fees are almost as ridiculous as needing to pay extra to access an Exchange server.  I guess Exchange email is somehow different than the other 0's and 1's going back and forth from your phone.

[BurtReynolds]

Suggesting the use of a Android Marketplace app by a legitimate third-party developer is apparently endorsing something "illegal" huh?  I know corporate influence is high in this country, but I didn't know that something that may violate ToS is now "illegal".  I'll have to find that federal or state statute I suggest breaking. 

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[AZSALUKI]

burt....don't get to upset about the censor....lol....i got "**bleep**" 'ed yesterday for the word {word filter avoidance}and the no, i wasn't name calling. i wrote "this may be a {word filter avoidance} question, but....."....lol. i think they may have some automated trigger words that get censored, and that maybe someone skims through VERY FAST, editing, without really reading the context.

[Malyshus]

Whereas I might feel the same way about what I believe will happen to the 2.2 update, I didn't start this thread to bash VZW for that.

Now, for the lack of any kind of announcement at all of when they expect the OS to be out does make me anxious.  Although it has only been a week since the announcement itself, I just thought that either the Phone MFG or the Carrier would announce something by now, regardless of how fluid the actual information might be.

[AZSALUKI]

i actually googled it earlier and almost everything that came up was just related to the original announcement, so it appears that nobody is saying anything for now. or the few that were speculating, admitted they were jus speculating.

[MrHost]

engadget had a link and excert from I believe google stating support for certain new devices(incredible being one of them) and upcoming devices will receive 2.2. Motorola announced the Droid would be getting 2.2 as well. Froyo itself isn't actually out as if yet. Only the nexus 1 had an offical release. One other unit is said to have it, but not an offical release.

[MrHost]

Here is a link I found on androidcentral in regards to why carriers/handset makers need time to test updates and such: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-it-takes-carriers-need-time-upgrade-their-android-versions-io2010 Theer is a video to watch on it I believe, I haven't read it yet. Checking now though.

Also here is a link about the Moto Droid update:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/24/motorola-expects-android-2-2-update-to-hit-droid-in-the-near-fu/

[fezzik]

The Eris may not get the 2.2.  HTC has only stated that phones that came out this year will get it.  There is a good possibility that the processor in the Eris won't run the new features and all updating would do is give a different look to 2.1 or they may get around to it and it work fine.  They will always work newest to Oldest so more than likely they are working on porting it to the EVO and the Mytouch3G then the Incredible and the Desire then maybe the older ones.  Motorola will probably put it on the iT first then the DROID then Devour and maybe the backflip.  Though you can bet AT&T won't allow tethering or most of the new features. 

[#20]

These threads are so ridiculous.  Some people act like it's the end of the world if they don't get the next greatest phone or system upgrade immediately.  As for tethering, why in the world would Verizon allow it for free?  Unlimited phone data is currently $29.99 while 5 GB of data for a computer is $60.  This is a legitimate source of revenue for Verizon. 

[fezzik]

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jimfitzgerald wrote:

These threads are so ridiculous.  Some people act like it's the end of the world if they don't get the next greatest phone or system upgrade immediately.  As for tethering, why in the world would Verizon allow it for free?  Unlimited phone data is currently $29.99 while 5 GB of data for a computer is $60.  This is a legitimate source of revenue for Verizon. 

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Or more to the point why DO they allow it for free.  Android and Palm are both capable of this and Android will be capable of it natively soon.  Oh yeah.  Gigity gigity. 

Besides that Verizon's moto is any app, any device on the network.  Real world application of this is iffy but that's the motto and slowly they are proving that they are sticking to it. 

It does get funny and I must say 2.1 was a bit of a let down.