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Droid 2 or Shadow?

Posted: 22 May 2010 07:44 PM PDT

With all the excitement we've had today with the release of Froyo, the Droid 2 almost slipped by us. The folks over at Howard Forums have received some specs and more information on the next iteration of Verizon's Droid series. The picture of the manual below is none other than the successor of the Droid.

Rumored Specs:

4.3 inch Screen.

- 12 Mega-Pixel Camera With Xenon Flash And Led Flash

- FULL HD 1080P Video Recording

- HDMI Port

- 3.5 MM Jack

- 32GB internal storage

- Hardware Keyboard

- Android 2.2 Froyo

This will be a MotoBlur device, but this isn't the MotoBlur we are all used too. It appears that it has undergone a complete overhaul and looks totally different than before. Whenever this does hit the streets let's keep our fingers crossed for Android 2.2 to be preinstalled on this next great Android beast.

How To Manually Update to Froyo – Smorgasbord

Posted: 22 May 2010 07:25 PM PDT

With the release of Froyo today I see there are a few of you that don't understand how to get it. Well there is three different ways you can get Froyo now other than waiting for the official OTA and I will guide you through all of them.

Let's start off with the easiest way to get Froyo. If you're running on stock firmware all you have to do is download the update from here.

1. Once it's downloaded, rename it update.zip. Make sure you don't name it update.zip.zip
2. Place the file in the root of your SD card.
3. Turn on your phone while holding power + trackball, this will take you to the bootloader.
4. In the bootloader press the power button.
5. Press volume down to highlight the recovery option.
6. When you see the triangle with an exclamation point symbol, press the Power and Volume Up buttons at the same time.
7. From the menu that appears, select Apply sdcard: update.zip.
8. When you get the prompt that says update successful, select reboot and enjoy Froyo.

For you folks who already have root, it's even easier to get Froyo then the stock people. Thanks to Madoco all you have to do is download his premade ROM and flash it in your custom recovery like you always flash anything.

1. Download the file here.
2. Place the file in the root of your SD card.
3. Turn on your phone while holding power + trackball, this will take you to the bootloader.
4. In the bootloader press the power button.
5. Press volume down to highlight the recovery option.
6. Select flash any.zip and choose the file you downloaded above.
7. When it's done successfully select reboot and enjoy Froyo.

Now it's time for the hardest way to get Froyo. This is for you rooted folks that want to unroot, get Froyo and root again. This is the hardest way and it is not recommended for novice users.

1. Unroot using this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=614850
2. Make sure you fastboot the stock recovery, it's included in the guide above.
3. Download Froyo here.
4. Once it's downloaded, rename it update.zip. Make sure you don't name it update.zip.zip
5. Place the file in the root of your SD card.
6. Turn on your phone while holding power + trackball, this will take you to the bootloader.
7. In the bootloader press the power button.
8. Press volume down to highlight the recovery option.
9. When you see the triangle with an exclamation point symbol, press the Power and Volume Up buttons at the same time.
10. From the menu that appears, select Apply sdcard: update.zip.
11. Reboot device.
12. Download Cyan's root patch here.
13. Download Amon Ra's recovery here.
14. Place it in the tools folder of your SDK.
15. Boot into fastboot mode by powering on the device while holding the trackball.
16. Run fastboot devices to make sure your computer can see your phone.
17. Run fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.7.0.img
18. Run fastboot reboot recovery to get to the new recovery.
19. Select update any from recovery.
20. Select Cyan's root patch you downloaded in step 12.
21. When it's done, reboot and you now have Froyo with root the hard way
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