Rating: official web site gives comprehensive update details
The US blogs are buzzing with the news that the official OTA upgrade to Froyo (2.2) for owners of the HTC Droid Incredible will begin today (27th August). There are rumours of leaks from Verizon’s intranet for this date plus tales of Verizon sales staff saying that the Incredible now ships with 2.2. However, the evidence on Verizon’s support web site is impressive – especially the instructions on how to install the update.
It will be dead easy to tell if the bloggers are correct because Americans should wake up this morning to a screen clearly marked with an update message [Shown here]. You then have the choice of installing immediately or at a later date.
Apparently, if you opt to install the update at a later date, Verizon’s network should remind you every 30 minutes. Or the update process can be triggered manually.
How do we know this? Easy. There’s a .pdf file on Verizon’s Droid Incredible support pages already and you can view it here. Its very existence has given credibility to today as the release date.
Curiously, the support pages don’t actually mention why anybody would want to delay the update. The answer is simple. You wouldn’t want the handset to run out of power while it is performing the update because that could result in a broken mobile phone.
What actually surprised GoMo News is that the support document even gives details of how to update if your handset is actually ‘roaming’. That is to say, you might even be in sunny Britain with your Droid Incredible and badly want the update.
The problem is that roaming customers won’t get the official OTA update notification. So what can you do? The solution is to perform the update via Wi-fi and the support document provides all the details you’d want to do this.
GoMo News is curious to know if Verizon’s customers will find the same problems with Froyo’s support for Adobe Flash 10.1 which Vodafone UK’s customers have found with the HTC Desire.
Perhaps our US readers could try looking at this problematic page on the BBC’s web site? Try surfing to this.
There were loads of blogs reporting 27th August as the official release date for the Incredible OTA Froyo update, of course. What convinced us was the report on Computerworld here.
Besides a link to the above-mentioned Verizon support pages (which incidentally offer an .pdf on the benefits of migrating to Froyo), Computerworld points to the current Droid Incredible product details page.
And there in black and while are the words “OS: Android 2.2, Google Experience Device”. Pretty conclusive, wouldn’t you think? Take a peek at that page here …
