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Clear your home screens before you upgrade

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/08/03/manual-android-2-2-update-for-motorola-droid/

This site has the download for 2.2 although I waited for the OTA. It also has the beta flash, but again I'll just wait for an official release. But when you read through the site they recommend you clear your home screens before you update. Whether it really should be done or not I don't know but I did it and my upgrade has gone flawlessly. If it helps with a cleaner install it's worth it. Plus you are going to want to reorganize your screens since you are getting 5 of them anyway.

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johnM356

That's what I did. I used Home Switcher and went back to a stock Home screen before I ran the update.

Once I was satisfied I went back and re-enabled ADW.

The whole thing took maybe 4 minutes and has been flawless so far.

Quadrant benchmark speed went from 331 to about 860. ..Unreal.

chirotor

My quadrant speed is 806. Wonder why the difference. Home switcher on the market says not compatible with 2.2?? I've never used it so I have no experience there. I just deleted everything.

PJNC284

Quadrant scores vary a lot. Run it again and I bet you'll get another number. May be higher, may be lower.

johnM356

Probably right. I've seen people saying they got results on the 880's. Regardless, this thing is FAST. HUGE improvement in browser & GPS apps.

MethRay97

What is all the hype over the quadrant/benchmark thing? I mean seriously what is the point?

PJNC284

Pretty much just bragging rights for the nerd world. A higher score doesn't necessarily mean it's a better phone. Unless the devices are running the same apps, settings, etc it's a relatively pointless number other than saying mine is bigger than yours. Below is the Quadrant score of my Droid running at 1GHz from a while back. Does that mean it's better than the N1, Shadow/Droid X or Galaxy S? not really

johnM356

Oh I don't know. I'd call a nearly 300% increase in speed & performance significant. I can really see a difference.

MethRay97

Well I can tell that my phone is faster on 2.2 than it was on 2.1 without doing a benchmark. Some people seem to swear by this benchmark stuff. You go to look at a review of a phone, what is the purpose of doing a benchmark? That's not a feature. Call quality, screen resolution, email capabilities.......those are features they should focus on, not some **bleep** benchmark.

So if a phone had a really high benchmark but the rest of the phone sucked, people would buy it just for that? Seems dumb to me.

Thanks PJNC284 for answering my question.

unknown

Speed is also a factor. Anyway, I didn't clear anything when I did the download and install, and everything went flawlessly. I have no issues so far. On the other hand, I don't see anything about 2.2 that makes it any better than 2.1 except for Adobe Flash. I downloaded and installed the beta version.

Cobjones

I didn't clear anything and I run ADW... went without a hitch..

As for PJNC, does the overclock to ghz kill your battery or make your phone hot???

PJNC284

Not really. It does heat up a little quicker when using gps but I solved that by using a vent mount. Battery life is just as good if not better as it throttles down to 125MHz when idle so it isn't going full speed all the time. With average use, I'm usually at 50-70% when I go to charge it at night after about 14 hours off the charger.

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