So it seems that there are a few that still want to know how to upgrade their Droid X to 2.2.  We’ve all seen the Motorola post attempting to discourage people from using the leaked version of 2.2. … No one cares.  There is always a way to upgrade … Sanctioned or not.

If you can’t wait for Motorola to drop the official 2.2 update (they’ve been wrong about update releases before) and you understand the risk you are taking … then proceed with the following:

** Not responsible if you break/brick your device or if your dog gets diarrhea**

• Download the gift that was released from mydroidworld.com here
• Copy the update.zip file to the root of your sdcard and shut down your Droidx.
• Restart your Droidx in the recovery console … Power+Home until you see the moto logo.
• Once in recovery, press your search button to bring up the recovery options.  Use volume to navigate the menu and the camera to confirm a selection.
• Select apply update.zip and have fun … the update.zip already has flash 10.1 included.

Quick blog post for those that follow.  Just saw a series of tweets from @ChrisSoyars indicating to check RomManager.  I’ve been a rabid fan of the nightly builds and two thing that I’ve been waiting for was compcache and apps2ext … Quickly looking over the features of CM6, I don’t see either of those in this build.  More than likely it will be in future releases.  The absence if compcache and apps2ext is by far not a deal breaker.  I love CyanogenMod and all the small tweaks they do to the OS as a whole.  Tried the stock droid FRG22D build and could only take it for a day.  I quickly developed a spastic neck twitch missing my CM6.  For a list of features, check their changelog here

Source: @ChrisSoyars

I love these guys.  They were the first to deliver froyo on the moto droid and from what I can tell by this thread that P3Droid made, this just might be a signed zip that your unrooted and stock Droid X can “apply update.zip”.  Forum followers are all indicating that you need to be stock to apply this.  That means to put back that bloatware and undo any custom hackery you applied for custom notification bars and themes.  Now I should be able to get my wife off my back about getting flash installed on her phone. =D

Source:  MyDroidWorld.com

Since Google’s big announcement about the improvements in its android search and voice applications, I’ve been dying to try it out.  CyanogenMod is my droids rom of choice, particularly the nightlies.  Unfortunately, the market would fail to install the voice and search updates.  I could not get those 2 applications to update in my market app.  Today, I was doing my hourly OCD refresh of market.  You know …  just to see if any apps had an update available.  That’s when I noticed that the voice and search apps were already installed.  Holy cow!  I didn’t manually install this from the market.  Did the nightly download of the gapps from rom manager have anything to do with it?  Sure nuff.  Looking at the experimental section of cyanogenmod.com, quite a few android devices had their FRF91 google apps updated yesterday.

I did find one bug and a fix.  I must have had a Jedi or Sith Lord stuck in my phone for a bit.  He kept force closing the voice app when entering additional lines in my email.  Not a problem.  Manually downloading the appropriate experimental FRF91 google app pack from cyanogenmod and installing it via rom manager made all the difference.  So if you have koush’s premium rom manager and are not afraid to navigate around the dark side of the force … then what are you waiting for?

• CM6 nightlies can be manually downloaded from here.
• The FRF91 google app pack here.  (Need to be registered to download)

This is going to be just a quick screenshot review of our beloved SetCPU.  Looks the the dev of SetCPU finally got around to responding to the beta requests  he asked for  No worries.  As I was getting this post ready he already sent out a beta2 update.  Wowzers.  He’s working fast.  Since this is a paid app that everyone should gladly pay for, I cannot post the link or apk.  This isn’t a warez blog.

For the most part, in his email, the major change will be the UI.  You can see it looks a great deal better from the screenies below.  My main concern was will it work with my droid running a froyo rom (Kanerade v1.1) with a 32 kernel … yes my friends … It does. =D

So a few of my friends that have froyo loaded on their phones are having issues with updating their google maps app through the android market.  It fails to install the update and it looks like the market doesn’t even register that its installed … But the old version still works.

Here’s what you do.  All of my friends already have the android SDK installed on their computers so I assume you do to.  Plug your droid into your computer.  Do not mount the SDcard.  Make sure debugging is enabled and run these commands:

adb shell

su

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system

busybox rm system/app/Maps.apk

cd system/bin

sh pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.maps

cd ..

cd ..

mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 dev/block/mtdblock4 system

sync

After you do all this, you will be able to go back into the android market and install that google maps update with no problems.

Source: Droid-Life

Just passing some information on for the few that actually watch my blog.  I’ve been following the cyanogenmod team on twitter and it looks like they are working like beasts on building froyo loads for the major phones out right now.  Nexus One, G1, Moto Droid and the Incredible … Oh my!  Thank goodness I posted a “HowTo” on loading clockwork recovery for the Incredible.

Looks like they might have a Moto Droid test build out this weekend too!  I’ll be watching my nightlies in Rom Manager =D

Quick entry.  Looks like cyanogen and koush noticed that froyo’s source has hit the Android Open Source Project site.  I personally cant wait to see what cyanogen and koush can implement from source in their roms.

Well this was a pleasant surprise.  I was just adjusting some settings on my nightly wipe and load of a random 2.2 droid load when I discovered that adobe has updated their mobile flash showcase site.  From the loading screen to the navigation and menu effects.  Very nicely done.  Got froyo and flash 10.1 on your android device?  Check it out .

I wanted to get this last bog in tonight.  This video shows my Droid running Quake3.  Nothing special right? … RIGHT?  Well this time I’m playing it with a wiimote and a nunchuck.

• First you need to download kwaak3.  Big thanks to thunderbird2k for making this nice little app.
• Second you need a PC copy of Quake3.  You can download the demo from ID Software.  I used my Q3 cd.
• Third, download Wiimote from the android market.

Ill revisit this post again tomorrow with better instructions on how to set this up for those that are interested.  I’m sleepy.