
I purchase my HTC Droid Eris back in March (2010) and have been running the stock version firware (1.5) since then. This morning I received an alert in my notification bar that a system upgrade was available. The long awaited 2.1 version was ready to be downloaded. I noticed that my battery life was at 60% and figured that should be enough to get me through it. I was also fairly close to a Verizon tower so I knew my phone wouldn’t be struggling to find a signal. Time to start the process.
The download only took about twenty minutes and the install took about fifteen.
As soon as you click install the phone goes black, and then an icon and status bar appears. Once the first phase of the install is complete, a new icon appears showing that the new upgrade is installing into the phone. After the second part of …