Comments on: Haven’t Got Your Nexus One OTA? Don’t Wait, Get It Now!

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:52:35 +0000

The update worked fine for me, and the multitouch is great. However, the radio update seems to be a mixed bag. When there’s 3G it is definitely faster. However, I seem to get 3G less, and more Edge, and even GPRS pretty frequently since the update. Before the update, I never got GPRS, and usually 3G.

By: vlizad

vlizad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:29:57 +0000

anyone knows if this will work on top of cyanogen mod 5.0 beta 4?

By: w00t

w00t — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:31:28 +0000

Works great. 3G speed is now proper 3g speed – around 2Mbits. Before the update i was capping at 200k!

By: n1

n1 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:02:28 +0000

YEAH! Worked after 7th attempt!

By: notasheep

notasheep — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:15:52 +0000

K applied the update. Multi-touch is nifty. However even though the status bar shows 3g full bars more often, when I do a speed test it’s still slow speeds, same as when the status bar was showing EDGE connection.

By: n1

n1 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:58:31 +0000

My phone just reboots with no multitouch. What’s going on?

By: manle010

manle010 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:35:46 +0000

Scary sh!t. I’m always so nervous about manually doing stuff like this. But everything seems to be working great!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:07:18 +0000

Worked great for me! I got scared when it rebooted twice, but 2nd time was a charm I guess.

By: anakin78z

anakin78z — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:02:48 +0000

@Chrisp download Astro file manager. just having it installed allows you to download many more file types you can by default. You’ll also be able to move and rename the file.

By: donivem

donivem — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:32:42 +0000

The patch worked great.. but I think multi touch is an over rated feature.. Prefer using one hand to operate my phone

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:23:57 +0000

Worked a treat! Thanks!

You miss out 1 step in the process though – you have to select the Boot option with the vol buttons and select with the power button BEFORE you get to the list with Recovery as an option.

By: Chrisp

Chrisp — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:20:52 +0000

Trying to dl the .zip OTA, but the browser wont save it as it says it does not allow this file type. Also tried to Bluetooth it over.. is there some additional setup I’m missing.
This is on a Nexus One

By: anakin78z

anakin78z — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:57:18 +0000

@john It is hardware specific, and would not work with the G1 or MyTouch hardware.

By: Martin Walton

Martin Walton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:38:48 +0000

Since the upgrade using the instructions above I have 2 problems – possibly linked.

On standby with 3g enabled my phone feels physically warm – much warmer than usual.

The battery life is significantly reduced – lasted 7 hours with no useage from fully changed to 0% battery life.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

By: john

john — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:11:28 +0000

So I guess it’s pretty safe to say if you ran this on a G1 or a Mytouch 3G that it wouldn’t work. Anybody have a good explanation of why not? Theoretically, shouldn’t it just update it to 2.1 from whatever version it is?