Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive the Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features including support for making your handset a portable hotspot and support for Adobe Flash within the browser.
The Nexus One has a well-known bug where the WiFi fails to reconnect automatically after wake-up. This happens with SOME routers, not all. But it happens with enough of them to be a well known problem. And the Froyo update didn’t fix the problem.
To me, this means that I’m still in need of another phone. The WiFi problem happens with my router, and so does for my landlord (he bought a Nexus One too, after seeing mine, and he has the same problem with his router at home, but not at work).
I have an HTC Desire which is supposed to be almost identical in hardware, and never experienced the problem, although moving a lot and being connected to wi-fi in 90+ % of time.
True, I will not receive the 2.2 update either.
Well I guess that makes your phone more desirable… 😉
isn’t he an ex beos dev?
of course its a product and all and you might expect your very bug fixed (although i never heard of it so its probably not all that widespread), but it also mean he can actually fix it (that’s what open source is all about). Also, if it was actually widespread i’d expect someone to have been annoyed and fixed it for everyone.
Before you say google should fix it for you remember that 99% of the code running has been done by people like us and given away under the redistribution condition to be able to do exactly this sort of things (among other things). otherwise you might as well use only proprietary software.
The bug IS widespread, and it’s definitely not “my pet bug” as you’re insinuating. It happens with some routers, but not with others, but it happens with enough of them. I just came back from a 7 page discussion at the Nexus One Google group, discussing just that. Not even counting the rest of the countless threads about it.
The particular driver is not open source btw, and therefore, it can’t be fixed by the community.
Edited 2010-06-29 20:02 UTC
If you’re looking into buying a new phone instead of waiting for a patch / update, have you looked into buying a new router?
Have you looked into any of the mods out there like Cyanogen mod to see if they have it fixed?
I have had the same problem with my 802.11n router. But once it’s in 802.11g mode the phone has no issues whatsoever. And with FRF72 FroYo update I have had no issues with the 802.11n as well.
Froyo really does seem to be an amazing update. I can’t wait to see it on my phone.
I have a Samsung Moment running 2.1. I would really like to have 2.2 so I can install apps on the storage card. As it is, I am always out of phone storage, and I have to uninstall most of my apps – some of them, like Documents To Go, I really hate having to uninstall after buying. I probably have 20 apps that I have purchased but I cannot use due to main phone storage limitations, Unfortunately, Sprint just updated the phone to 2.1 a couple months ago, and from what I have read, the chances of them updating are pretty low.
You’re not alone. Prior to installing Froyo yesterday I had to uninstall apps from my Nexus One because I ran out of internal storage too (512 MB internal storage is simply not enough, because it’s shared with caches and what not).
The vast majority of Android phones don’t come with a lot of internal storage. Even the even more popular EVO only has 1 GB in it — which is too low in today’s world. And Froyo is not the answer to the small internal storage problems because the apps must specifically support the installation to the SD card. Realistically speaking, many apps will never get updated to that end I’m afraid.
Edited 2010-06-29 20:46 UTC
Whee! I finally figured out where all my phone storage was going. I only have 256MB with the Samsung Moment. As a hunch, I deleted by Yahoo and school email accounts from the built-in Moxier mail applications. It quite a while (it looked locked up, but it wasn’t), but all of the sudden, my free phone storage went from 22MB to 148MB. Their built-in mail app (not the Gmail app) must be too dumb to store the mail on the storage card, and must have been storing it in ram. How stupid is that!!
I guess I will go back to checking my Yahoo and school email via the web browser, unless I can find an email client for Android that doesn’t store the mail in RAM!
You mean “internal storage”, not RAM. This is not PalmOS. 😉 😉
BTW, I don’t have any email account on the Mail app, and still I’m out of space. And I got 512 MB instead of your 256 MB. 😉
You’re right, I still love the old classic Palm OS. I remember one of the first apps I always installed was an app that let me run programs off the storage card. Window’s mobiles (aka CE) always had that feature.
For the record – I installed the K9 open-source email app and it does MUCH better at this. I did find out, though, that this is a common problem due to the way the storage card is handled when the phone is connected to a computer. When connected via USB, the drive gets mounted by the computer, and is no longer available for phone applications. Thus, many phone apps (including even K9), shy away from putting their databases on the storage card, for fear it will ‘go away’. K9 just does a better job of keeping things clean, and even provides a purge button.
I think that the storage card issue is bogus. Apps should do 1 of two things, both of which I am fine with:
1. Use a local database for caching. When the storage card is unavailable, try to get by with the local cache until the card becomes avaialable. This does create a lot of extra work for the developer, more so on the read site (making sure everything the user needs is available),
2. If your app stores important stuff on the storage card (like an email app should), then just don’t allow using the app when the storage card is not available. You can easily make this a setting in the app (use storage card or not), and if “use storage card” is true, and the card is not available, just give the use a message saying the card is not available. How many times does a user really need to connect their phone to the computer AND use the email on the phone. Give me a break!!!
apps can be moved to sd in 2.2 without having to root your phone so internal storage isn’t as important.
Please read more carefully the replies here. Apps can ONLY be sent to the SD card if the app supports that. From the 80 apps I got here, only 1-2 do.
so? i’m well aware that many apps don’t support it yet. if you have 80 apps on your phone that don’t support it, ask the devs to update them.
apps are updating all the time with a changelog that says “app to sd 2.2 support”
it’s not like it’s a feature that’s been around since the beginning of android, it’s 2.2 specific so developers need to update their apps.
Dismissive? Arrogant? Check and check. You’re channeling some Steve Jobs there. He’s got more poetry and brevity, however.
That’s a terrible and obnoxious design flaw in Android. The sooner they get rid of that ridiculous limitation, the better.
Is HTML5 video still completely broken?
Haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere, but the trackball now lights up in a variety of pleasant hues.
You still can’t choose the hue in the gmail/messaging apps unfortunately.
My Cliq XT (Quench) from Motorola is still at 1.5. They actually have on their schedule 2Q2010 for an update to 2.1, but since today’s the last day of that, I guess they’re overdue. Already there are a few apps that won’t run on 1.5, not to mention the features I’m missing. 🙁
Edited 2010-06-30 11:34 UTC
Can anyone describe the upgrade process a bit? What happened to the phone during the upgrade? It’s been half hour since the upgrade process started and all I am seeing is sort of a warning sign on the screen after the phone rebooted first time. I just want to make sure it’s not already toasted or something. Thanks!
The upgrade from a stock 2.1 recovery image took less than five minutes. You might want to hard reboot your phone and recover from backup.