So you know that rumor from earlier this week about AT&T-locked Dell Streaks not getting the official Android 2.2 OTA update until mid-January 2011?
Well, based on some screenshots I just got of two internal emails, I'd say that's looking a whole lot more like fact than fiction right now.
The most recent email (above), dated December 7th, is very direct in stating that the OTA update for AT&T-locked Streaks "should happen the week of January 12th," while an earlier email (below), dated November 19th, details the update process for unlocked Streaks and mentions that "the update for AT&T phones is slated for early January."
Internal emails are not official announcements, of course, and another email could always go out today, tomorrow, or next week with a different release date, but the fact that two emails said January and the most recent one is from the day before yesterday definitely isn't a good sign.
An interesting tidbit from the November email is that users of unlocked Streaks upgrading from 1.6 can use WiFi or 3G to download/install the update, but those upgrading from 2.1 are limited to WiFi only. WiFi is obviously the faster choice, but the differentiation is still worth noting.
In related bad news, the preliminary ship date of unlocked units preloaded with Froyo purchased from Dell.com has been pushed back to December 26th.
I've actually heard from several people who ordered this version from Dell.com as soon as it was available (back when the estimated ship date was December 8th) and received their units with 1.6 loaded!
They were able to upgrade to 2.2 through Menu -> About phone -> System updates with no problem, but you can bet that many of them were very upset when they powered on their new Streaks for the first time and saw Android 1.6 staring back at them.
In summary, AT&T-locked users continue to wait it out in the cold, Dell fumbles and drops the ball yet again, and more people flash DJ_Steve's 1.4.6 ROM.
Thanks, anonymous tipster!
Its official, tomorrow when I have time flashing on Steves 2.2. I bought the Streak the day it was released in the states. I live in Canada. But I’m sick of dell’s s*** and I’m pretty sure everyone else is too.
I bet this is dell’s way to say everyone go get Steve’s rom, Ours sucks. Here’s to you Dell, the company that is run by one-armed labotamy patients.
Any word on O2 locked streak even tho i bought mine on a pay and go on launch. I feel so unjustified that i still not getting an update to 2.2
And there was me thinking ill buy a Dellmini. Dells a good company and will be able top update my tablet/phone, but oh know waste my time and money you lame company.
“I’ve actually heard from several people who ordered this version from Dell.com as soon as it was available (back when the estimated ship date was December 8th) and received their units with 1.6 loaded!” <—- This is true. I was one of those people who paid the extra $30, and the phone indeed came with 1.6
Just posted this on the Dell forums, waiting to see how long it takes before its deleted.
Jesus christ who’s dick do you have to suck to get an official froyo update?? I would assume dell and/or at&t might accept the oral pleasure as payment for new software? Baaaaaaaa humbug!
Good grief people. If you want 2.2, take the chance, and go to XDA, modaco or another site and follow the 1,392 steps to update it.
Does your phone work? Mine does, PERFECTLY with 1.6, and, with some of the comments I’ve seen on some of the forums, some of the Dell/O2/At&t releases/leaks of 2.2 are nothing to write home about.
Considering my old phones (windows) had to be hacked to get them to work out of the box, with any performance, the 1.6 streak has been so much nicer.
It’s just a phone, unless you were promised by Dell that the one you ordered would have 2.2, what’s the deal?
It amazes me sometimes, that the patience level of the average human is pretty much zero. We live in an instant world…we want everything now.
(soapbox mode off)
I’m fine with the waiting. It sucks, but it is what it is. It’s the lying that gets me. Last month when they supposedly released 2.2 ‘worldwide’, apparently it’s only for ‘unlocked’ units, i.e. NOT for the US.
The next day a Dell representative ‘accidentally’ leaked a December 3rd date for this update for Streaks on AT&T and then apologize that she had to take the information out because ‘she’s not supposed to post the date’.
Now we found out that they knew all along it’s going to be January. As a customer I think I have a right to be upset being lied to repeatedly like this.
You must not be doing much with the phone then except making calls. Let me know if you can get your exchange emails ( not using that crap touchdown trial software)contacts, etc.
You probably shouldve gotten a dumb phone then, I rely on my streak for emails, making appointments, searching the web, looking at maps, playing games ect. If you bought this phone for anything more than calls and have some knowledge of this and other devices then you would want 2.2. If youve ever seen another phone running android you’d know the benefits of 2.2, infact right now as i type this the landscape keyboard on my streak lags so much that I’m typing a word and the letters on the keyboard respond over a second later, its called lag and it doesnt work for those of us who bought this device for more than phone calls.
A collective “uuugh!” is heard and a horde of new people install DJ_Steve’s latest work.
DO UNLOCKED ANDROID 2.2 STREAKS FOR AT&T FROM DELL RUN 3G OUT OF THE BOX?.
Serious question – Why do I have to wait for ATT to approve an update for what Dell sells as a “pocket tablet” (not a phone)? My device isn’t on ATT’s network, was purchased at full price, and is not actually used as a phone. Why does ATT get control over my device?
Patience…soon the high council will make you a master Jedi…..
My 1.6 Streak has no typing lag (using swiftkey). But mostly I use the swiftkey speech recognition, so I type little. Creating and editing word docs and powerpoints is great. Working great for me. Will enjoy 2.2 when it arrives, till then…
“I wish froyo was here” ….So do all those who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Don’t miss the beauty of today longing for the future (or cursing the past). (Was that Frodo or Froyo …I forget…)
I think it is more AT&T holding up the release of Froyo 2.2 than Dell. Just saying…
No offence. You obviously don’t know what you are missing in Froyo (2.2). Let alone the huge jump from 1.6 to 2.1.
I am happy that you are cool staying in the 1.6 land, in the tech world, 1.6 is like a decade old. Anyone running 1.6 is missing many features/advantages of 2.x
And… come on, show me one high tech gadget that is release in 2010 that’s running 1.6. Oh ya, our Streak
This is just sad that Gingerbread (2.3) is released and official Streak Android is still on 1.6. We are 3 releases behind now (it is like running Windows 98/2000. Can you imagine??).
Rabble…Rabble!
Let us all now bow our heads and offer up thanks to that god, DJ Steve, for saving us from this slow torture.
DJ Steve, FTW!
Why don’t people use the QDL Tool to update? It honestly takes three minutes and boots right up into the OFFICIAL 2.2! And the best part is it’s now fully functional, can be used as tethering, and baseband 00!!!
It isn’t like a lot of the “command prompt” with fastboot. It honestly does everything for you.
I know that people have been saying it, and even I was a naysayer until I did the update, but it makes this a totally new phone!
THIS IS THE OS THAT SHOULD HAVE COME ON THE STREAK OUT OF THE BOX!!!
So glad I decided not to wait and got steve’s 1.4.6 froyo. It is so much smoother and faster. I do have problems with it like not being able to change notification sound and ringtone. My biggest issue is battery life. Had better battery in 1.6 for some reason. Can anyone tell me of they found a fix for any of these please???
All I want is a powerful mobile device with more screen real estate when typing. For the last few months it’s been either an Iphone 4 with slider keyboard ( http://www.boxwave.com/products/keyboardbuddycase/apple-iphone-4-keyboard-buddy-case_3968.htm )or wait for streak with 2.2.
Dell & AT&T are pushing me away…
“Good grief people. If you want 2.2, take the chance, and go to XDA, modaco or another site and follow the 1,392 steps to update it.”
LOL!
Thanks, I’ll wait. Not happy, I want flash for not much more than porn. So… I am in no hurry for a Buggy ROM. Well, A More Buggy Rom anyway. 1.6 is not exactly trouble free. But you know that already.
Peace
Really? I feel like I have better battery life with DJS 2.2 (1.4.6) than I did with 1.6. I typically get between 14 and 20 hours, depending on use. Now a couple of hours of gaming (Angry Birds, Pocket Legends) will drain the battery pretty dramatically. I think I lose 10-15% of charge per hour of Angry Birds, and maybe more with Pocket Legends.
I do keep GPS and WiFi turned off unless I’m actually using them. I also followed Jenn’s tip and turned off WiFi notifications, so my Streak isn’t constantly searching for an open WiFi network. I also usually have background data turned off. Maybe those things help a lot?
With QDL Tool you get the OFFICIAL BUILD! Not DJS build. You don’t have to root, or do anything screwy at all.
hey man can you put a link and can you help me if i get stuck im doing it today after i heard this sad news if I can’t get 2.2 im selling this thing
I am still betting that DJ_Steve pulls out a working version of 2.3 Gingerbread before Dell & AT&T release official 2.2 to locked Streaks.
Streak is *so* much better with DJ_Steve’s latest ROM. Seriously. It is finally the device as it should have shipped. No problems, just works.
OK so how do I get.this tool and is it a tool for the PC or Dell help not going to wait any more
Today is my second day with froyo. yesterday at 1pm it was asking me to charge it already and b4 bedtime had to charge it again. will c what happens today. Thanks for the tip. Il try it tom
The tool is available for download in the Forums area. When you go to the top you can click on the link right next to the “Home” tab.
Here is a link directly to the discussion http://forum.pocketables.com/showthread.php?t=8214
The walkthrough is really easy. And works on windows. It honestly is very easy to do, the toughest thing to get is the drivers. But once those are installed, you can go from 1.6 baseband 31 directly to 2.2 baseband 00.
And it is the official Dell Stage build, so no funny business with buggy builds on your streak. Once I started the upgrade it was done in about three minutes. Then my phone booted up in about 4 minutes and it was running smooth.
For real…
I used the QDL Tool and i am in love!!! this is the phone i was hoping for all along!!! it is just a simply a new phone…
You know
1) back in September Dell stated that their 7 inch “Looking Glass” tablet (Essentiall a Streak 7 inch) was within weeks of release – to date, NOTHING
2) I went to Best Buy to actually look at both the Streak and the Samsung tab, unlocked, no contract, both are $549.
Tough choice but at least Samsung actually listens to its customers, is well established in the mobile community, has solid devices and wont screw their customers by releasing devices with outdated Android 1.6 and they have an actual to-live-with update schedule when new versions of Android roll out.
I’ve been waiting because I was interested in their 7 inch tablet but with Samsung outselling the Streak in many ways, I cant see waiting any longer. Maybe Dell can get its shit together sometime soon.
“Let me just buy a digital watch that has hands for reliability of telling time….. ”
@huoyjii – Dell knew they had to submit 2.2 to AT&T for testing. They also know how long it takes. They knew all this before announcing “by end of year” and before they updated that to “well before”.
@HAK – well, you have to insert an AT&T SIM card and have a data plan with AT&T, but yes, the unlocked Android 2.2 Streaks will work on 3G.
“Why don’t people use the QDL Tool to update?” Many people have. One reason some people don’t is because, unlike other methods, you CAN permanently brick your Streak with QDL. Yes, if you do everything correctly, you’re fine. But imagine if your $550 device were now useless because you accidentally brushed a selection and didn’t notice. Personally, I’m not willing to risk it.
Check your apps first. A lot of apps continue to send/receive data even after you close them. I use ES Task Manager to do that a couple of times a day. It makes it easy to only kill tasks you launched manually, preventing issues due to killing everything.
You might also check that you don’t have 3G, WiFi, GPS running when you don’t need them.
If you tend to use your Streak a lot, Steve’s 1.4.6 is overclocked when the screen is on, thereby using more battery. Since it’s underclocked in sleep mode, most people end up with significantly better battery life.
Actually… Samsung tried to screw customers of the original Galaxy by promising an Android upgrade. When the phone was nearing end of life and customers were screaming for their upgrade, Samsung tried to renege and announced they were not going to offer it. They finally caved to pressure and threats of class action lawsuits, I believe. I wouldn’t trust them any more than Dell.
Let’s see….I get 5-10 email, 20-30 text messages a day.
I use POP3, not exchange.
I use the web 4-5 times a days. This phone is for work, and I use it as such. I don’t play games, watch movies or listen to MP3′s, so maybe it doesn’t do that as well.
I bought it because of the screen, as it is easier for work to look something up on our secure site, than dragging out the laptop.
Me too! I am very angry about that! I contact the customer service and get a response from them said: contact the technical support, they can help you with that. So… >..<
Yes I tried this way and could not get the last part to work where the streak is recognized by qdctool.
I’ve had 3 different windows phones (tilt, fuze, tilt2) and have downloaded and flashed, hacked, edited the registry on those til the cows come home, but, for now, the android phones (as seen on some of the forums), are not quite as bullet proof yet, with regard to flashing the updates. Perhaps when they make it a little less painful (flashing buttons, stuck on the dell logo), I’ll give it a go.
I posted the link further down…..the one place that people are getting caught up with is loading the drivers in Windows.
To do so what you have to do is this…..turn the streak off, hook up USB to computer, hold down left volume rocker, then computer will try to find drivers and fail. Then follow the steps in the walkthrough to load up the right drivers for Qualcomm.
There is even a Word document now posted in the thread about how to make sure you get the right drivers loaded up. It goes step by step.
It’s the constant delaying that’s the issue which implies that Dell is not being honest about it. Personally, I’ve wanted to buy the Streak since August but have waited patiently for it to ship with 2.2. I thought I would be buying it this weekend from Best Buy with 2.2, but that doesn’t seem likely. Maybe next weekend. The latest date being bantered around now for pre-installed 2.2 is December 13th. I really hope so as my current phone (Env2) can only hold a charge for 3 hrs tops. It’s been like that for the last three months. It’s so frustrating.
I’m having problems installing this drivers. where can I download this drivers? please help here please. thanks!
It’s not that I’m “happy” with 1.6, it’s just I bought this off contract, and after reading the nightmare stories about bricking, I’m gonna stay away until the manual update is a little more bullet proof.
The windows phones were pretty much a one click/no command line deal, but the android phones for the most part have a little ways to go. Hats off to the cooks for getting it where it is, and it will be no time til they come up with a little less stressful way to update.
My command line knowledge goes back to DOS2.x, but sadly, when you live in a windows environment for as long as we have, your command line skills get a little rust on them.
ummm…..what?
I’ve heard that the QDL tool is making life a little easier…if we get snowed in, I might research it and give it a go
The fact that the SonyEricsson X10 and the Samsung Captivate, carried by At&t, have yet to get updates points the finger (the biggest finger) at At&t. The Experia X10 (which is a very solid phone with an excellent camera) is still running 1.6. It has been with At&t since July i believe. Yeah wtf????
I love my Streak which is a serious eye catcher still but I digress when someone inquires about the version of Android OS it uses?
What a shame. Such a cool device on the outside, lame guts on the inside.
Yes 1.6 works fine but who wants 2009′s Os when you should have 2010′s?
Anyone want to take a guess at when Dell/AT&T will release a official 2.3 release on the Streak? I am guessing NEVER.
Why defend ATT? ATT doesn’t even sell the streak!
I had the same problem. I had the wrong driver install for the QDCTool. The qualcom. Make sure it is the diagnostic driver. Also if this doesn’t work try another USB port and reinstall the driver following this : http://forum.pocketables.com/showpost.php?p=59264&postcount=2
also, try taking the battery out and waiting 60 seconds and restating the process.. it is so worth it.
Hope this helps.
Yea but the LOCKED Streak is used on at&t hence Dell needs at&t’s blessing before the froyo update can be released.
Unlocked Streaks already have 2.2 so guess who is holding the update up? duh
wow can some one talk me throw this QDL thing scaronscar6@gmail.com i have it on my pc and trying the driver things and…… I JUST SUCK need a phone walk throw help
http://streakdroid.com/?page_id=78
This is the best how to for the driver install. It’s pictures and how to…..goes step by step.
Also, QDL isn’t famous for bricking phones. The beauty part about it is that if things don’t go as planned, which happened to me several times, the phone goes back to 1.6. My phone didn’t have any issues at all.
ok ill give it another go man i suck at the driver part….. thanks to for all the info i hope i do it right this time….
+1
It took me a little bit to get the right drivers for the “Qualcomm” too. But once I did it was a cake walk! If you’ve got any questions just post them on here…..in the forum side every body is really good about helping out too!
Hello all,
Just wanted to let you all know that Lionel Menchaca from Dell has confirmed the January date in his Direct2Dell blog article.
Link here: http://dell.to/hWH89o
I need some help to make sure I’m going in the right direction. I’ve downloaded the repairtool zip from Streakdroid, looked over the Win64 bit section to make sure I understand it, and watched the main tutorial. After I follow through with both of those, is there anything else I’m supposed to do after these two tutorials (besides, you know, actually doing them)?
Hahah I got it 2.2 love it just not the stage from Dell that much but ooooo so happy now
How did i Know they would not keep their word on the update, should have went to verizon and bought a droid x total bs
Sooooo anyday now……. LOL hurryyy
Anyone receive the update yet?
Nope haven’t got the update yet.
not yet ..fukn dell and att probably are having a good laugh at us
The week of January 12th? I think Dell should be addressing AT&T Streak Users, they have 2 more days and I am returning this device if the uprade does not appear.
shelly is way right if no update by friday night iam dumping streak going elswere so done with dell lies
Dell is done with the update, correct? This is on ATT to roll out, not Dell at this point. So the real question is, how do we get information from ATT on when they plan to roll this out? I cannot even find teh Dell Streak on their support site.
was thinking…how about a tweetup calling for action. Get as many Dell Streak ATT users on the same page as possible…then flood ATT support with calls all asking the same question.
Look at this and decide who is at fault for no update
http://blogs.computerworld.com/17650/android_upgrades_carriers
i was a waiter i said screw it! and did dj steves update…… best th ing i have ever done … didnt lose anything important all the programs work amazing … took the dell stage u i off running gingerbread launcher never gonna look at donut again!!!
I think AT&T does not have equipment for OTA updates, look at my other post and check it out.
dell and att are full of crap release the dam update so we can go on with
enjoying the dell streak