Droid X Gingerbread Update Now Available to Everyone

Posted by | 05/31/2011 | 27 Comments

The day that Motorola Droid X owners have been waiting for has arrived. As promised, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update is finally available to all Droid X owners, not just those involved in the “soak test.”

Motorola Droid X

For those of you that have not seen the update, all it takes is a couple of steps before you’ll be installing Android 2.3. Those steps, as many of you might know, look something like this:

Menu -> Settings -> About phone -> System updates

Once you do that, you should be prompted by a menu alerting you to the presence of an update. Once installed, your phone will not only have all the perks of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but it will also come with a bunch of other enhancements including a download manager app, multi-touch key chording, and more. The whole list of what the update brings can be found here.

Enjoy the update and let us know how it’s working out for you.

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Adam is a technology blogger based in San Francisco, California who loves his iPhone 3GS and Motorola Droid 2 equally. You can follow him on Twitter or reach him by email at adam@notebooks.com.
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  • frustrated

    Very upset! Now nothing works! Keyboard is horrible, clicking on icons brings up wrong items, phone is slow, available memory dropped 100MB! My phone is now crap! Are they trying to force people to buy new phones?

  • Rhondalash

    mine is bricked too

  • droidxGUEST

    Installed it last night – haven’t had any issues.  I downloaded a custom launch interface though, and the new 2.3.3 graphics look a little odd with it.  Overall it seems a little faster — most speed improvement I’ve noticed has been with changing screens and typing in the “social status” widget; that thing used to lag like hell.

  • Dzuck

    My upgrade on driodx went “smooth”.  At least initially.  The phone rebooted several times since the upgrade but that has stopped.  Of course it’s probably stopped because my phone occasionally won’t dial out and I have to reboot it manually.

    I love the new look/feel and options, but really breaking the phone from calling out?

    • Rednecktek

      Exact same problem here. Phone just stops dialing out.

  • Blazinpond

    Installed a few days ago on my DroidX and it’s terrible in all aspects. I have pulled my battery about 6 times and can’t access the internet at all. At one point I had to reinstall my email in order to get it to work. 

    Anyone know of a fix or how to uninstall?

  • irate

    Did mine this morning, battery died in less than three hours, everything is slow as molasses in January now, media player “white screen of death’s” the phone, heck took two minutes for the screen to clear after I rejected a call.  I am failing to see the “up” side to this update…

  • Andrew_d_rice

    Mine bricked as well. DROID 2. Luckily it was under warranty and I was able to be sent a DROID x. (Two warranty claims in a month. I complained and was swapped for DROID x.) However the new phone came with 2.3 and its awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Genrich/100001859703957 Anthony Genrich

    Well, I’m sorry to hear people having trouble with the update. Fortunately for me, I was at work. I didn’t have my charger with me and do not like letting my battery run dead I did not update my phone. Is this good or bad? Will I be given another chance when the bugs are worked out? 

  • Alycia Armstrong

    My phone update, I check it everyday. My phone just won’t update!

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