Manual Update of DROID to Support Flash Player 10.1

The original DROID by Motorola smartphone was updated recently to the latest version of Google's Android operating system, but one feature was still missing from the device even after the update, namely Adobe's Flash Player 10.1.

A few days ago, Verizon posted on its support website details on a near software update that would enable support for the technology, and it already started pushing it out to DROID devices out there.

Through this update, users can enjoy support for Flash Player 10.1 on their devices, while being able to download the solution from the Android Market.

As it usually happens with these updates, the software won't land at the same time on each smartphone out there, and some DROID owners would get it in a few days, or a little longer.

However, in case they would like to have the solution faster on their devices, they can perform a manual update of their DROID handsets to the latest firmware version, the one that packs support for Flash 10.1.

As the guys over at Droid-Life note in a recent post, the Android 2.2 FRG22D update for DROID by Motorola is available for download from Google via this link.

So as to install it on their devices, users would have to download it, rename it to update.zip and place it to the root of the microSD card on their devices.

The process it quite simple afterwards, it seems, and includes the following steps:
1. Turn your phone off
2. Boot into recovery (Hold Power + X)
3. Wait for a triangle with exclamation point to appear and release Power and X
4. Hit the volume up and camera button (half-way down) at the same time
5. Using the D-Pad select “apply update.zip” and press in the gold button on the D-Pad
6. Your phone will now run the update
7. When it finishes, use the D-Pad to select reboot phone
8. Your phone will reboot with Android 2.2, build FRG22D

As soon as the process is completed, Flash should show up in the Market. However, in case some consider this process too complicated, they can always wait for the official solution to land on their handsets.