Verizon has started pushing out the Android 2.2 update for the DROID Incredible, making it the second HTC handset in the U.S. to reveive the new update. The new Froyo update will include Adobe Flash Player 10.1, 720p video recording, 801.11n Wi-Fi, 270 degree screen rotation, 3G Mobile Hotspot, batter improvements, and some new and improved email and sms widgets for HTC Sense. We still have not received any confirmations from any of our readers that the Android 2.2 has hit their handsets yet, but we’re pretty sure they should start rolling in any minute now.
Typical OTA updates take a week or two to hit every single device, but if you’re not willing to wait that long, keep in mind there are a few tricks to get your update a little sooner. Our favorite one is to simply change the date on your handset. Manually bumping up your handset’s date by a week or two should automatically trigger the update.
For more details about the Froyo update for the HTC DROID Incredible, Verizon has put together a list of benefits and installation instructions. Let us know how things go. With Froyo installed, the DROID Incredible should be a little more… incredible. Sorry, we just couldn’t resist.
Nice, downlowgin Froyo now!
Manually changing the date does nothing. It’s pushed from the server not grabbed from the client, duh.
Actually, changing the date has worked for quite a few of HTC’s phones. it worked on my EVO when I got Froyo and a friend over the the UK used the same trick to get his Froyo update on his Desire.
The servers have all the phones scheduled out for certain dates. Changing the date on the phone will send a ping to the servers which tricks them into sending the download file.
The servers still know what time it is. The update is randomly PUSHED to phones. Changing the date on earlier technology only worked because the update was available when devices did their regularly scheduled check for updates. In this case, because of the sheer number of users, Verizon decided to push the update as a random lottery instead of allowing check for update queries.
They want to ease the update out because if it starts messing up peoples phones, as it did in the Motorola rush update, they will have fewer users rageing.
Not to mention the huge load on the servers.
We incredible users like to think we are superior because we picked the clearly superior product but I’m sure Verizon has their hands full fixing motobroka problems….lewlz.
Oh yeah…. you can’t compair what worked on sprints network to how Verizon manages theirs. Sprint has nowhere near the same volume of Droid users that Verizon has.
Got my OTA update for my HTC incredible this morning.
The good: faster performance and some cool new apps.
The bad: lost all my txt messages, gone forever, called Verizon they had not heard about this problem yet.
Had the same problem as Mark. The update was pushed to my HTC Incredible this morning. All my messages disappeared tonight. :-/