After waiting all this time dialing *#*#checking#*#* like a maniac, I finally have froyo installed on my AT&T Nexus One. I probably single handedly crashed whatever server dealt with those checkin requests. Today, after reading here that it was available, I said screw waiting for the OTA update and downloaded the file here. Followed the manual install instructions located here (substituting the file in those instructions with the other file I linked to). And now my phone is froyo-ified!
After all this time waiting it seems rather anti-climactic. The only cool thing that I have noticed is that I can now create a wireless network from my 3G data plan. I guess flash is cool, but hulu.com doesn’t work and that is all I cared about as far as flash is concerned. Oh and things scroll faster.
Perhaps some of you will care that my exchange calendar from Seattle University just automatically popped up, I sure don’t. I guess I would care about that if I had anything on it, but I don’t.
But I am sort of frustrated because Robo Defense now runs all rough. eh oh well, maybe it will work better tomorrow. I really hope that whoever makes robo defense will allow it to be installed on the SD card because I really need to change google accounts on my phone but I don’t want to lose my score!
Now that I am sufficiently satisfied that I have the newest Google Android experience possible I am supremely happy that I didn’t give in and buy an iPhone 4. Even though the OS is not mind blowingly different and better for my purposes it is still nice to have something new and shiny!
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