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what is your situation with 1.6 firmware (public votes)


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using 1.6 JB2.

pros:
- glad the unlock screen is working nicely
- nice to have the new android market
- have access to some 1.6+ apps like the new maps, gesture search and google goggles (although the latter is useless IMO)

cons:
- battery life sucks (it was never great on 1.5, but it's worse now)
- camera broken- seems to take pics but they appear in your gallery as a grey "x", so they never get stored. might be just me because i've not read anyone else having this problem
- it is extremely laggy and slow switching Activities and using the marketplace
- lots of force-close/wait prompts, particularly when returning to the homescreen
- missing copy-protected apps in marketplace but that's to be expected given that it's a leaked firmware
- low media volume (can barely hear it on the tube!)

looking forward to trying a new build because the lag is killing me, but will stick with it because it's good to have new market and 1.6 apps.
 
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using 1.6 JB2.
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- battery life sucks (it was never great on 1.5, but it's worse now)
guess you've got the no-sleep bug? not having it, i'm getting brilliant battery life
- camera broken- seems to take pics but they appear in your gallery as a grey "x", so they never get stored. might be just me because i've not read anyone else having this problem
works fine for me
- it is extremely laggy and slow switching Activities and using the marketplace
- lots of force-close/wait prompts, particularly when returning to the homescreen
these are the only 2 cons compared to ik4 (my previous fw) for me - tho' i'd only use the word extremely in the context of downloading/installing apps from the market
also, haven't tested the volume thing yet - gonna do so tomorrow
- glad the unlock screen is working nicely
i wish they'd make it so that you'd only have to give the unlock button a normal, short press and nothing else to unlock the screen - it's not like it's gonna do any pocket-calls or anything since the screen is capacitive
 
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Originally Posted by gastr
- camera broken- seems to take pics but they appear in your gallery as a grey "x", so they never get stored. might be just me because i've not read anyone else having this problem

works fine for me

oh how embarrassing- my camera wasn't working because i was out of memory. deleted some photo's and it works fine now :-/
 
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