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21 07 2010

Android 2.2 Froyo on European EPF30 Nexus One

Posted by: David in fun

Big news : Google had released the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus One. The mobile operating system that bore the name ‘Froyo’ (Frozen Yoghurt) for its 2.2 incarnation, would bring dozens of upgrades, but two in particular were interesting to me

  • Faster, less processor usage, which translates in a longer lasting battery
  • Adobe Flash 10.1

One big problem: my Nexus One is a European model. The US version is sold with system software version EPF27, the European one is known as EPF30. The Update by Google was only for Nexus One models with EPF27 installed. No luck for me as a European.

Vodafone (the operator that has a distribution arrangement for the Nexus One for most of Europe) was apparently doing some extra validations and tests before sending the update to their “clients”. Well, I’m not a direct client of theirs, but still I had to wait (grumble).

I was slowly considering to force a manual update, like mentioned on  Blog in Black, but I wanted to be prudent. When you force the update (using a process called ‘rooting’), you void your warranty. In my view, the Nexus One is quite an expensive gadget, so I hesitated a few days longer.

Fortunately we had a dinner planned out of the house yesterday evening, which delayed my tinkering until today. During my research this morning for all the info for the manual update, I stumbled upon the androidworld forums. After I read that one of the users with a EPF30 model had received his update, I decided to check one last time via the official upgrade way.

No luck.

On that androidworld forum, someone posted a little trick to force your phone to check the latest status on the Google servers. You just enter the following code like you do with a phone number you want to call:

*#*#2432546#*#*

Bingo! I immediately received the message that I had a system update waiting. Some 5 minutes after accepting the download via my WiFi at home, I had a Nexus lying besides me with a brand new Android 2.2 Froyo release to play with. I’m quite curious to try it out.

The updates are reported to be starting also in the Netherlands and Germany.

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