What's in 2.1 - Findings, Tips and Tricks

[tcrews]

I don't have the official 2.1, but have any of you noticed improved call quality? That's the only reason I've considered unrooting to take the official update.

You can get just the Baseband update, look in the Hack section....or just use this link to go to the thread..

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/33703-major-baseband-news-alldroid.html

It's an update.zip file to use with sprecovery so you would have to be rooted and have sprecovery installed. Updates the Baseband, you'll need to re-activate your phone which takes less than 1 minute. Will not affect your Rom image, data, applications, settings, etc....it just updates the Baseband.

 

[thebourbonnflip]

I have noticed the the notification bar works a little differently. When I am updating more than one app at a time the "Downloading (Apps)" is just one one "line" in Notifications the downloading apps seperated by commas. As each one is downloaded they drop one at a time lower down on seperate "lines". Maybe it was that way before, but I certainly thought there was a seperate "downloading line" for each app,

Also I seem to have 2 extra very small (8k,16k) "downloaded apps" in "Menu>Applications>Manange Applications" that are weird. (and yes it is filtered for "downloaded apps" only)

One seems to reference the Gallery app, but I know I uninstalled the 2.1 Gallery BEFORE I did the 2.1 update. The app name is "com.android.gallery" size is only 8.00kb, "Version 0" and does have an uninstall button (yes, it's highlighted)

The other one right below it is "com.android.inputmethod.latin.." size is only 16.00kb (12 app/4 data) and it is also "Version 0", and also has an uninstall button.

Anyone else have this??

Yes i did have this..but i got rid of it...but i first used 'MyBackUp Pro' backed up all my stuff like sms mms etc. and then i did the hard factory reset and erased cache and others....and when i reloaded everything back up...those 2 items like you showed above were gone...idk what that did/was but my phone works well

 

[kendroid09]

contacts open in last folder viewed

contacts now open to the last list you were viewing, ie. favorites, contacts or call log. It used to always open to contacts and then you had to switch from there....

 

[clark grizwald]

i also have those com.android apps. i think one has to do with swype or touch since it says something about input method

 

[Cowpoke]

I may just be dreaming, but IMO the browser seems to scroll much smother now. Maybe its always been this smooth and I didnt notice because I've been on Dolphin a while, but it seems smoother than stock used to be or Dolphin is now. This site has always scrolled really laggy for me, but now scrolls just fine.

 

[JCo352]

I may just be dreaming, but IMO the browser seems to scroll much smother now. Maybe its always been this smooth and I didnt notice because I've been on Dolphin a while, but it seems smoother than stock used to be or Dolphin is now. This site has always scrolled really laggy for me, but now scrolls just fine.

You're definitely aren't dreaming, that is the main reason I am happy with this update.

 

[modified]

Tad bit snappier :icon_ banana:

 

[hookbill]

I may just be dreaming, but IMO the browser seems to scroll much smother now. Maybe its always been this smooth and I didnt notice because I've been on Dolphin a while, but it seems smoother than stock used to be or Dolphin is now. This site has always scrolled really laggy for me, but now scrolls just fine.

You're definitely aren't dreaming, that is the main reason I am happy with this update.

+1 absolutely and was one of the main reasons I wanted this update. Much better scrolling now.

 

[GeLopez]

yes yes yes, faster and smother on the browser, zooming and overall speed

 

[pjo1966]

Posted elsewhere in a closed thread:

Home screen now works in landscape mode. Before the update the home screen would only work in landscape mode when in the car dock.

Also, voice search will bring up results from Contacts first, then Google results. This was not working before.

One thing i just noticed on the virtual keyboard; the comma has been moved to the numbers screen to make room for the mic. It would make more sense to move the period. Most everybody i know hits the space bar twice to enter a period unless using it as a decimal point.

 

[hookbill]

Posted elsewhere in a closed thread:

Home screen now works in landscape mode. Before the update the home screen would only work in landscape mode when in the car dock.

Also, voice search will bring up results from Contacts first, then Google results. This was not working before.

One thing i just noticed on the virtual keyboard; the comma has been moved to the numbers screen to make room for the mic. It would make more sense to move the period. Most everybody i know hits the space bar twice to enter a period unless using it as a decimal point.

Yeah we know that but I'm not wired that way, so I strongly disagree. I like the period where it is and I know where the comma has been moved to. In addition the period is used much more often then a comma so it makes sense to have it on the front screen.

 

[offcamberjk]

Those apps that are only a few kb are usually just leftovers from an uninstall. You can just uninstall them and you'll be fine.

 

[toddegreene]

Posted elsewhere in a closed thread:

Yeah we know that but I'm not wired that way, so I strongly disagree. I like the period where it is and I know where the comma has been moved to. In addition the period is used much more often then a comma so it makes sense to have it on the front screen.

Try Menu->Settings->Language & Keyboard->Android Keyboard, from here you can toggle Voice Input. I don't have the 'official' 2.1, but I think I have the 2.1 keyboard (too many updates and such and it's one thing I didn't track).

 

[Helmut]

When a home screen shortcut to a contact is selected it now opens the "chat" style bubble on the main home screen, very nice! slightly buggy if using helix (top portion gets cut off)

 

[Steve H]

contacts now open to the last list you were viewing, ie. favorites, contacts or call log. It used to always open to contacts and then you had to switch from there....

I haven't received the update yet. I have a factory stock Droid with 2.0.1 and my contact opens to the last list and spot I looked at. Don't think this is new to 2.1