After a few days with the Gingerbread update on my Charge, I can say that it's definitely made me love my phone.
So far, almost all of my major annoyances with it have been addressed:
1) Prior to the update, my phone would normally die at about 6 hours of use. Afterwards, I seem to be getting just under 10 hours of battery life. This still isn't necessarily great, but it's a significant enough improvement for me - I don't mind keeping my phone charged up during the day, but it's nice that I can get through most of the night without worrying about my phone dying around midnight or 1 AM any more. I imagine I can squeeze even more than this out of it, but as a baseline it's a great improvement.
2) UI lagginess/sluggishness is pretty much completely gone. Prior to the update, going back to the homescreen would often result in a 5-10 second wait for it to reload - and many UI operations were noticeably sluggish. This affected most apps for me as well. Launching the web browser, scrolling, etc. was usually sluggish - oftentimes I would see the checkerboard a lot waiting for it to redraw. After the update, I see almost no lag, and things are much smoother and quicker.
3) Audio Stuttering is gone for me. This was one of my biggest annoyances. When listening to audio, especially through bluetooth, I would often hear stuttering - especially while trying to use another app - operations like reloading a webpage would result in a stutter (it was like anything that caused CPU use to spike would interrupt audio playback). Sometimes even without doing anything it would stutter, presumably from background tasks. After the update, I haven't experienced a single stutter - I've tried a fair number of things and can't get it to stutter.
These are really the main things, but I consider them major improvements. It's made my day to day use and enjoyment of my phone much much better, and even though it took a very long time to come out, I'm glad it did.
-Zadillo
So far, almost all of my major annoyances with it have been addressed:
1) Prior to the update, my phone would normally die at about 6 hours of use. Afterwards, I seem to be getting just under 10 hours of battery life. This still isn't necessarily great, but it's a significant enough improvement for me - I don't mind keeping my phone charged up during the day, but it's nice that I can get through most of the night without worrying about my phone dying around midnight or 1 AM any more. I imagine I can squeeze even more than this out of it, but as a baseline it's a great improvement.
2) UI lagginess/sluggishness is pretty much completely gone. Prior to the update, going back to the homescreen would often result in a 5-10 second wait for it to reload - and many UI operations were noticeably sluggish. This affected most apps for me as well. Launching the web browser, scrolling, etc. was usually sluggish - oftentimes I would see the checkerboard a lot waiting for it to redraw. After the update, I see almost no lag, and things are much smoother and quicker.
3) Audio Stuttering is gone for me. This was one of my biggest annoyances. When listening to audio, especially through bluetooth, I would often hear stuttering - especially while trying to use another app - operations like reloading a webpage would result in a stutter (it was like anything that caused CPU use to spike would interrupt audio playback). Sometimes even without doing anything it would stutter, presumably from background tasks. After the update, I haven't experienced a single stutter - I've tried a fair number of things and can't get it to stutter.
These are really the main things, but I consider them major improvements. It's made my day to day use and enjoyment of my phone much much better, and even though it took a very long time to come out, I'm glad it did.
-Zadillo
