Don't want to wait for the Motorola DROID OTA?

By on Dec 8, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Featured December 8, 2009

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Well, you don’t have to. We’ve tested this out ourselves, and here are the instructions if you’d like to venture into the wild and try and install the update manually.

  • Download this file
  • Rename the file to update.zip and place it in the root directory of your microSD card
  • Power off the phone
  • Power on the phone while holding the ‘X’ key on the physical keyboard to enter recovery mode
  • When you see the triangle with the exclamation point, press the volume up key and camera button key (only press the camera key down half way)
  • Navigate to “apply update.zip” and press the gold center button on the keyboard to select it. It will start the update process
  • Reboot the phone after it’s finished.

That’s it! Let us know how it works out, and please don’t try it if you’re not comfortable.

Thanks, David!

• Grab this file https://android.clients.google.com/upda … 263456.zip
• Rename the file to update.zip and place it the root directory of your SD Card .
• Power off the phone.
• Power on the phone, while holding the ‘X’ on the physical keyboard.
• When you see the triangle and !, press Volume Up + Camera button.
• Navigate to “apply update.zip” and press the gold button (center) on the D-Pad. Now it will install.
• Reboot phone (should take 3-4 minutes).
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  • Jendelanoche

    Worked fine for me manually, as of now no update from VZW. Don’t think it’s going to come as it sounds like this was the real thing. Thanks BGR!

  • Bozman

    Update won’t come from Verizon but rather Google

  • Don Salo

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    it’s been voted the #1 gadget of the year, and #2 or #1 in smartphones this year, what did you expect?

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    Burger fail!

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    didn’t you say once you’d stop posting here? there has to be something useful you do with your time… isn’t there?

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    I hope this chicken was tortured before it was killed and grilled.

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    Or perhaps WSChas2yearsleftonATT.com

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