Comments on: (Updated) Droid Eris Getting OS Upgrade In Coming Months

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:19:05 +0000

Verizon has not confirmed the Eris will get 2.0 or 2.1 upgrade. I tried prying it out of Verzon support a week ago because of a problem I had with my Eris and not even the support folks know what HTC or Verizon engineers are going to do. It’s all rumors or customer speak with nothing to support it. I can give a flip about the HTC gui, I just want the new version of Droid! It seems to me that HTC thinks we bought our Android phones because of them, which in my option I can live without the delays they are causing me!!!! Just give my Eris a clean install of Android and let me decide what applications I want!!!

By: xonix_digital

xonix_digital — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:21:30 +0000

Eris gets 2.1.
Droid doesn’t???

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:13:18 +0000

I am pretty sure that the Eris will get 2.1 (not 2.0) because it is rumored that the Droid and Droid Eris will be upgraded on the same date (some people say January 22nd). It doesn’t really matter which one it gets, though since the .1 is not that different. Also, not only will the Eris get Google maps navigation but it should get Quick Search and the quick contact menu in the people app. To further see the differences between 1.6 and 2.0 go to: http://www.android.com/media/

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:50:35 +0000

Edog – if you’re still having youtube problems – I get that error on the droid youtube app, but when I go to youtube through the browser (and on the mobile network) clips play fine!

By: Crystal Carreras

Crystal Carreras — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:19:32 +0000

I have been waiting for almost three months to get my hands on one. January 12th I’ll qualify for my new-every-two $100 disc. Also the current BOGO promo deal on the Droid Eris ends on the 17th of this month. I called and spoke to a vzw rep this morning and got the ending date of the promo. My issue was do I go ahead and take advantage of the BOGO deal (my husband is up for an upgrade as well) and get two Droid Eris’ for nothing or wait till the following week when they release the updated 2.0/1 version? Relying on the dialogue of this forum, the update is free so I might as well go get my Eris’s on the 12th for FREE! =)

By: Edog

Edog — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:40:33 +0000

Oh by the way anybody having problems with there YouTube app on the eris. It works fine if I connect to my WiFi but the second i jump on the mobile network than I keep getting the won’t play sorry sign. If anybody has a remedy please let me know and thnx!

By: Edog

Edog — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:30:15 +0000

Actually my opinion is that 2.1 will be released sometime Jan.
If you look at YouTube and many other places on the web 2.1 has found its way onto the moto Droid and Nexus. Through rooting there phone of course, but that should mean that 2.1 would be even closer than. Cause I’m sure the developers don’t want to be outdone by 3rd party programmars, or amatuer developers. Not that I’m dissing anybody here. Just think that we probably shouldn’t wait too long if we’re already seeing homebrewed ROMs of it.

By: Derp

Derp — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:45:45 +0000

@15 “fupa”
Don’t you mean a downgrade to vista?

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:29:13 +0000

Odds of the 11th for an update to the Eris from verizonwireless.com are slim to none, not impossible, but the announced date is ‘sometime Q1 2010′, VZW isn’t known for doing things early.

On the other hand, there is an update scheduled and announced for the Moto DROID this month, that’s probably what the ‘nerdy guy’ heard about and misconstrued.

By: john

john — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:21 +0000

What I don’t get is why Google makes an update for Android that adds cool stuff but doesn’t make one that fixes its actual problems. Thats what Apple does, and look where that got them. One of these problems is its music player.

By: nonya

nonya — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:34:32 +0000

yo i dont know what you nerds are talking bout but the eris is the shit…

By: Dean Cory

Dean Cory — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:08:58 +0000

OK Moto Droid update and a free Eris…. But are they going to fix the bluetooth issue? And I don’t mean an app… A true fix the way it should have been from day 1!

By: Tom Streeter

Tom Streeter — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:30:00 +0000

I messed up in #20. The update this week for the Moto Droid will be 2.0.1, not 2,1.

By: @flatline5

@flatline5 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:52:59 +0000

I like this move and I have been asking Verizon when they were planning on it for months now,(I know they hate seeing my face when i walk in there) This is a good move, Android OS should always be looking to move forward and for this to have taken so long is beyond me. Keep the OS updates coming for all Android devices we are a different breed unlike those iJOKES we are not one device and shouldn’t be treated as such. Developers don’t forget about the devices that brought us here and lets keep it all in the family.

By: Tom Streeter

Tom Streeter — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:11:11 +0000

The Moto Droid has to get some kind of OTA update by the 11th or the camera goes wacko again for 26.5 days. Given that an HTC running 2.1 has been seen in the wild, my guess — based only on probably-faulty data and wishful thinking — is that Moto Droid will get 2,1 sometime this week and the Eris will get its Sense-overlayed version early in Q1.

Something I was prepared for when I bought my Moto Droid on Day 1 is that the next year is going to be pretty painful for everyone using an Android device. Having Android devices on Verizon is giving the OS the tonnage it needs to really be mainstream. I fear the backlash that’s going to come from the true pioneer early adopters who are going to be abandoned (or at least made second-class citizens) as developers quit trying to write to every flavor of Android and concentrate on where the tonnage is. I’m still waiting for Layar and I always have to wonder if some small, less popular free app will actually run on my Droid, but I suspect that in the next 6 months to a year the situation will reverse. New apps will be written to 2.x and 2.x only and for the phones that do the fewest customizations.