2.1 ESE53 will be Official Release on the VZW Motorola Droid

[Se7enLC]

Here we go again..lol. Now watch Verizon pull this off their site, like Motorola did.....

Well, that will be tricky, considering that it's not actually ON any verizon or motorola site. The only "official" notice we have is photos of internal verizon documents. Nothing has been officially released to the public as far as I can tell.

[MontyMo]

Wondering if iphone jailbreaker and nonjailbreakers squabble like we do?

I would think not. The Apple world is a Perfect World where everything works and all live in harmony.

[blitzburgh39]

exactly. thats why ill have the official 2.1 over any other 2.1. its made by the people who made the phone. they know how to tweak it perfectly. ahhh i cant wait

[Se7enLC]

Here we go again..lol. Now watch Verizon pull this off their site, like Motorola did.....

Well, that will be tricky, considering that it's not actually ON any verizon or motorola site. The only "official" notice we have is photos of internal verizon documents. Nothing has been officially released to the public as far as I can tell.

I take it back, I guess it is on their site, but most people are linking to just images of the PDF hosted elsewhere. Here's the direct link:

http://support.vzw.com/pdf/system_update/moto_droid.pdf

[scoder]

I can verify that its coming through that schedule. Too bad its too damn late.

[cereal killer]

I updated release schedule in OP......

[gatewayad]

There sure are a lot of people complaining about the 2.1 update saying we already have that! I think the thing to remember is that about 90% of the Droid owners don't have what some of us have... and me... I'm happy with DM 1.0 (Sholes made it easy) and with all the features of the 2.1 update thanks to so many hard working people on these forums (plus several more features since I am rooted... like overclocking and wireless tether ) But if you figure there are at most what about 200,000 Droid owners max that visit the various forums and I will bet a pretty good percentage of them have still not rooted. So out of the 1.05 million Droid owners I think there will be a lot of happy people. Hell I wasn't unhappy with 2.0 stock coming from the Storm, just my opinion ( and yes go ahead and slam me for just guessing at numbers and percentages... Ha! )

[adrynalyne]

unless Motorola releases the source code, which they've failed to do for the Droid to date.

That is simply not true, which is more than can be said of the vast majority of "devs."

Motorola Open Source site.

Droid source consists entirely of code found at the Android repo site. Specifically, for the current DROID release (ESD20) you can find the user space code here (android.git.kernel.org Git - platform/manifest.git/blob - android-2.0_r1_snapshot.xml) and the kernel space code here (android.git.kernel.org Git - kernel/omap.git/shortlog).
Meeta Bhutani - 12/16/2009 11:05 AM PST

Looks like they could be prodded to update the description to reflect newer releases, but OTOH, it also looks like they don't do any modification to the standard Android codebase, so the open source code is all available.

The newer source is on AOSP.

[1linuxfreak]

All I can say is "Yeah" finally .
I would like to apologize to all for posting the comment about 2.1 being shelved , trust me am I glad I was wrong and gladly eat Crow , and wear the egg on my face .
Sometimes you have to beat the bush to get the truth out .

[tehpriest]

So Verizon has updated their "System Update Instructions" link and the second picture on the right has the ESE53 but it is only 14.8 megs.

That must be huge compression going on for a new ROM

That will be just the encryption signature key to lock the Droid bootloader down as with the Milestone. The rest will follow after.