We have just received notification that someone has rooted Android 2.1 for the Samsung Moment. Before you jump for joy and go rooting your Moment to 2.1 we want to just talk about what you will NOT be able to do currently with this.
1. The newer version of the gallery 2. News and weather widget 3. Multi-touch
One cool thing is you will now be able to get the apps you couldn’t use when you were on 1.5 and Swype is also available.
There are a lot of websites reporting that Sprint has started rolling out this update today to customers and we believe this is not the case but rather people confusing the leaked version for an official version. Someone actually posted something that is being reported on a bunch of different websites claiming to have the actual 2.1 update from Sprint but goes on to say too bad you guys can’t have it you have to wait for the official version. He also states the multi-touch doesn’t work which is another reason we believe this is bogus.
As of now droidedup.com does not have an official release date from Sprint though we do believe the actual release should be soon. If you don’t want to wait for the official release you can certainly root your phone to this version. Beware that doing so will remove everything from your phone so be sure to back it up. Also if you decide to root you still can revert back to 1.5 when the official release comes out then update with the official release.
For those of you wanting to update now visit SDX-Developers and follow the instructions in the forum.