New Motorola Droid Update Available

[UltraDroid]

My wife and I are running rooted FRG22D by Pete. We are now getting a notification that we need to install the OTA update constantly. I tried to install it, but it failed. Can anyone help me get the latest update installed?

The latest OTA update will destroy your root. No more Bugless Beast and Pete until you find a way to re-root, so be forewarned.

-Mike

[gadgetrants]

My wife and I are running rooted FRG22D by Pete. We are now getting a notification that we need to install the OTA update constantly. I tried to install it, but it failed. Can anyone help me get the latest update installed?

I'm in the same boat as you. I followed the manual instructions below and it worked like a charm for me (note it's NOT the update...it stops the notifications):

Android 2.2.1 Stop OTA Patch

Attached is the fix for D1 running BBv5. This is what is modified in the build.prop. Thanks to Banksy for the info!

EDIT: Should work on other roms with FRG22D or previous versions, but will change your About screen to show BB5 and such. If you change the text below in your build.prop (the 3rd and 4th lines), you should be fine. All this patch does is make it appear to Verizon that you have the update already.

What is changed by this in the build.prop

From:
ro.build.version.incremental=50454
ro.build.version.release=2.2
ro.build.description=voles-user 2.2 FRG22D 50454 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2/FRG22D/50454:user/release-keys

To:
ro.build.version.incremental=75603
ro.build.version.release=2.2.1
ro.build.description=voles-user 2.2.1 FRG83D 75603 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2.1/FRG83D/75603:user/release-keys

Download and install with SPrecovery (with update.zip file in the root of your SD Card) or CWRecovery (navigate to the zip wherever you placed it). As always, make a backup! Do not wipe data/cache! Remember that you assume full responsibility for anything that happens to your phone. With that said, haven't heard from anyone stating this killed their phone.

Manual Instructions
Using Astro, navigate to root\system, long press on build.prop, scroll down and tap 'Open in text editor'. Once open, scroll down until you see

ro.build.description=voles-user 2.2 FRG22D 50454 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2/FRG22D/50454:user/release-keys

Change Items in red to

ro.build.description=voles-user 2.2.1 FRG83D 75603 release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=verizon/voles/sholes/sholes:2.2.1/FRG83D/75603:user/release-keys

Upon completion of making these changes, Exit out of the editor, it will ask to save, click yes, it will automatically back up the original as build.prop.bak. Now reboot your phone, clear notifications and let it finish booting. Under About Phone/System Update it should say you are up to date. IF it still has the upgrade there, reboot again, all should be well.


Something to note, after doing this (or before, doesn't matter) go into the root\cache folder and delete the *.zip file in there, it's clearly labeled with the OTA information in the filename (signed by voles) to free up 3MB of valuable phone space.

oh, for users of SWYPE

You will need to uninstall & reinstall Swype after doing this, doesn't matter whether or not you install it using the update.zip or the manual way. Something with Swype, nothing that I can do.

another option...

I got it [Swype] back without having to uninstall and reinstall. I just cleared the data from Swype and opened the installer (which I had installed in November). It asked me if I wanted to generate a new license. I pressed the "Generate License" button, entered my email & password and it fired right up.

Official Release from Pete - http://androidoverdrive.com/pete/FROYO/StopOTA.zip

-Matt