Motorola Takes Hard Line Against Leaked 2.2 Users

Just over a week ago a leaked version of 2.2 was made available to Motorola Droid X users. The news seems to be bad for those early adopters with Motorola taking a firm stance against the leaked Froyo ROM and not offering an upgrade path to the official OTA update. The guys from Moto said, via their support forum:

“WARNING: Do NOT load the leaked 2.2 upgrade that has been floating around on the Internets. There is currently no upgrade path from that load to the official 2.2 load that will be released by early September. Unless you have some plan to flash your phone back to the current official load, you could be stuck on the leaked version.”

This is in direct contrast to HTC who have, in the past, been pretty helpful and accommodating when it comes to getting non-official ROM rebels out of an update limbo. To us, HTC seem to take the smart approach here. If a build is leaked, it’s ultimately the fault of the manufacturer. A small percentage of users are bound to install it and  locking them out of the update party to ‘teach them a lesson’ wont do any PR favours.

For those Droid X folks that did update to a unofficial 2.2 the fix seems to be a downgrade to 2.1 and an official upgrade. Expect full technical details on an Android forum near you soon. For the rest of us, maybe time to rethink being so click happy on the unofficial stuff.