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More evidence of Android 2.2 Froyo on Motorola Droid X

Categories: Android, Motorola, Verizon
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 3:26 PM
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Looks like the first time we saw Froyo running on the Droid X wasn’t fake, as now we’re seeing more pictures with the Android 2.2 running the latest and greatest Android phone from Motorola. Not only are we seeing the 2.2 version in the settings, but now we’ve got a picture of the update notification.

While it’s possible to change the firmware version in the settings menu with some code finagling, we’ve yet to see a fake update notification. This is the real deal, folks, and we’re anxiously awaiting the update hitting our own Motorola Droid X. It also looks like some of these Droid X units running Android 2.2 are being sold on eBay, if you were so inclined to buy the device for a software update that may be released as early as next week.

As expected, the Adobe Flash player, Apps to SD, and other Android 2.2 Froyo features are working on the Motoroal Droid X.

One thing that is pretty disappointing, though, is that the user who received the Froyo update ran the benchmarking application Quadrant to see how the Droid X performs when on the new build. The results were a bit poor. If this is a test release of some sort, it may have lacked things like the JIT compiler, but it’s hard to imagine it was left out when it looks to be an official OTA update. In the Quadrant tests, which were said to have been conducted twice, the Droid X performed worse than it did on Android 2.1. It really doesn’t make sense, but hopefully this will be ironed out by the time it starts hitting the masses. We also have to wonder if the Texas Instruments OMAP processor inside the X has anything to do with its benchmark performance.

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The Droid X should officially get some Froyo lovin’ sometime soon, and this update basically confirms as much. So if you’re a Droid X owner, why don’t you check out and see if you have an update waiting for you? Go to Settings > About Phone >Software Update to find out if you have some Froyo goodness available to you.

[Via: Droid-Life]

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Blake Stimac

Blake was born in Beaumont, Texas, about 100 miles away from Houston. Even as a youngster, technology came to him very naturally, tinkering with anything he could. His passion of technology grew with mobile phones when he dreamed that the capabilities of phones would eventually make one's life much easier. Since then it's been his mission to advocate the push of mobile technology to anyone who will listen.

  • lugosi

    Suddenly less performance? I just ran the same test and its equivalent to the Shadow (makes sense huh?).

    Or could it be…. a fake?? This first pic is a bit blurry ;)

  • david

    2.2 is available now (has been available for a while) as sdk download via android developers website. it supposed to be for developers to improve the system. the over the air final update should be much smoother.

  • Pauo

    Possibly this was a test version with debugging turned on? This is often the case with test apps, so perhaps this contributed to the poor results (or at least that's what I am hoping for!).

  • Drunlar

    No "Droid X" update as of yet (08/06/2010). I have been waiting for a 2.2 update for a week now and checked twice today for an update since the initial "Droid" is supposed to get 2.2 today. Putting a dev buid of 2.2 on the phone there are a lot of simple to do steps for this for the original droid but I couldn't find anything for "Droid X". I believe downloading the SDK build and putting it on is risky as far as motorola compatibility.

    I need flash for my favorite online game.

  • Ddevito

    I am running Droid X, froyo, rooted, and of course modified a bit :) and my highest benchmark is 2,136 my average is 2,000… That pretty much sums it up… ROOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!