Unlock With Your Face

Me: Haha, I can unlock my phone with my face
Jex: ...
Me: Not physically
Jex: Ahahaha!
Me: Face recognition thingy from the update
Jex: I was like...face...hmm...must be bored
Me: Bwahahaha

Nexus One Manual Gingerbread Update

Last Sunday, I got a text from a friend, who also has a Nexus One, that he just got his Gingerbread update OTA (over the air). I was ecstatic and immediately turned my phone's wifi on. I was so disappointed not to see any prompt for an update. So I thought I'd give it a few more minutes before becoming totally disappointed. After a couple of games on Kongregate I hopefully unlocked my phone, but, sadly, no update prompt was waiting for me.

I was aware that not everyone gets updates OTA at the same time but I was just too curious and excited (and, fine, impatient) that I wanted my update right now! So I researched on manual Gingerbread updates for the Nexus One. When Froyo came out I also updated my phone manually, so I wasn't really worried about doing the same thing for Gingerbread.

I found this post from dkszone.net and read the comments on the post before I proceeded with following the instructions. I didn't follow their instructions 100% so I'll share what I did for my manual update.