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Wyrlin · 09-09-2011, 10:57 AM

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. Before I start my story I just want to say thank you to everyone in this thread for all your advice and knowledge. Because of all of you, I was able to update my EE to 2.2 without asking any questions and only a marginal amount of frustration.
I've been trying for months to get my hands on a full-sized edge. Well I finally got one on e-bay for $335. It was a little more than I had planned to pay, but it came with an official black enTourage neoprene zipper case and an extra battery! Not to mention it came in the original packaging and it looks brand new, so I was even more excited at this point. Then I tried to update it and my excitement began to falter. I searched and searched and came across this forum.
Again I want to say thank you all for the information in this thread! I downloaded the update from http://dustyfeet.com/edge/ which also includes the golden update for EE and both update files for the PE. As per the instructions here, I tried updating with a USB several times with no success. I tried reformatting it back and forth many times between FAT and FAT32, and several different durations of holding down the Menu and Rotate buttons. Still no update. So I finally decided I was going to use the File Explorer to copy the update file to the physical storage on the EE and try that. However, the only way I could find to do that was to copy if from the SD card. So I used my computer to put the update on the SD card and put it back into my edge. I decided to try holding the buttons down on startup, just to see if it would update and VOILA!!!!

So if you are having trouble like I did, here is my advice.
1. Download the update from the site I posted above.
2. Make sure the filename is update.zip.
3. Instead of putting it on a USB, put it on an SD card.
My SD card is 16GB, has almost 9GB worth of PDF's on it,
and is formatted as FAT32.
4. With only the SD card inserted (no SIM or USB), press & hold the Menu and Rotate
buttons and then press the power button.
DO NOT RELEASE THE MENU AND ROTATE BUTTONS!
5. Continue to hold the Menu and Rotate buttons until you get the updating screen.
Once you see the update screen you can release the buttons and it will finish
updating on its own. I believe it was about 35-45 seconds. You may not have
to hold them that long, but that's what I did and it worked the first time.
6. The update takes less than 5 minutes and the couple of apps I had downloaded
was still there afterwords. Also the journal DOES still work after the update.

I don't mean to say that anyone else on this thread is wrong I just wanted to let people know that this is what I had to do to update mine. I'm looking forward to using my new EE and hoping that there will be some way to keep it up to date in the future. I have to learn everything about this device. It is my first "actual" e-reader, my first tablet, my first android (of any kind), and of courst my first edge. Thank you all again for your information on this forum and I hope that my contribution will help.

09-09-2011, 10:57 AM	#183
Wyrlin Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Central Missouri Device: enTourage eDGe	Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. Before I start my story I just want to say thank you to everyone in this thread for all your advice and knowledge. Because of all of you, I was able to update my EE to 2.2 without asking any questions and only a marginal amount of frustration. I've been trying for months to get my hands on a full-sized edge. Well I finally got one on e-bay for $335. It was a little more than I had planned to pay, but it came with an official black enTourage neoprene zipper case and an extra battery! Not to mention it came in the original packaging and it looks brand new, so I was even more excited at this point. Then I tried to update it and my excitement began to falter. I searched and searched and came across this forum. Again I want to say thank you all for the information in this thread! I downloaded the update from http://dustyfeet.com/edge/ which also includes the golden update for EE and both update files for the PE. As per the instructions here, I tried updating with a USB several times with no success. I tried reformatting it back and forth many times between FAT and FAT32, and several different durations of holding down the Menu and Rotate buttons. Still no update. So I finally decided I was going to use the File Explorer to copy the update file to the physical storage on the EE and try that. However, the only way I could find to do that was to copy if from the SD card. So I used my computer to put the update on the SD card and put it back into my edge. I decided to try holding the buttons down on startup, just to see if it would update and VOILA!!!! So if you are having trouble like I did, here is my advice. 1. Download the update from the site I posted above. 2. Make sure the filename is update.zip. 3. Instead of putting it on a USB, put it on an SD card. My SD card is 16GB, has almost 9GB worth of PDF's on it, and is formatted as FAT32. 4. With only the SD card inserted (no SIM or USB), press & hold the Menu and Rotate buttons and then press the power button. DO NOT RELEASE THE MENU AND ROTATE BUTTONS! 5. Continue to hold the Menu and Rotate buttons until you get the updating screen. Once you see the update screen you can release the buttons and it will finish updating on its own. I believe it was about 35-45 seconds. You may not have to hold them that long, but that's what I did and it worked the first time. 6. The update takes less than 5 minutes and the couple of apps I had downloaded was still there afterwords. Also the journal DOES still work after the update. I don't mean to say that anyone else on this thread is wrong I just wanted to let people know that this is what I had to do to update mine. I'm looking forward to using my new EE and hoping that there will be some way to keep it up to date in the future. I have to learn everything about this device. It is my first "actual" e-reader, my first tablet, my first android (of any kind), and of courst my first edge. Thank you all again for your information on this forum and I hope that my contribution will help.