The Android 2.1 Update for the Motorola Droid has Started

by Patrick Martin

At noon yesterday, the 18th March, the Android 2.1 update for the Droid began. Not all users will get the update straight away.

Motorola Droid 2.1 Update

This is how Verizon will roll out the update.

At noon EDT yesterday in the US, 1000 users should have been notified of the update. Then at 11:59pm EDT another 9000 users will be notified. These will be the first 10,000.

Then there will be a period of 24 hours where there are no updates at all.

On the 20th March 200,000 users will get the notification from Verizon at 11:59PM EDT. The updates will go on like this until every user has been updated.

There will be exceptions though. If your Droid isn’t connected to an external power supply you’ll need at least 40% of the power to be available on the phone. If the phone is connected when the update happens you’ll only need 20% available power. Over The Air Transmissions are like this, so not everyone is going to know about it and be ready.

If you’re roaming at the time of the upgrade you won’t get it either.

It’ll be exciting to see what the update is like and how it all goes.

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