I finally decided to give KaosFroYo a try and installed 35-1 last night. I have previously used XTR Sense, mostly. So far, very unimpressed. I did a full wipe of everything, completely reformatted my SD card since I had it partitioned, and installed it.
First of all, it has been slow. It did not automatically download all my previously downloaded apps (thank goodness for Titanium). I thought that was one of the perks of FroYo. And even after setting it to install everything to the SD card, many were not and I had to manually move about 75% of them. Even after a full 24 hours of normal use, it is still laggy when scrolling, swiping between screens, and when opening a few apps.
Second, the dialer has been very unimpressive for me. With Sense's dialer, you pull up the dialer and start typing the phone number or start spelling out a contact's name and it will bring up those contacts so all you do is touch the contact you want to call/message. It seems with this dialer I have to type the number completely, or I have to scroll all the way through every contact (unless it's a "Favorite" contact) to the one I want to call.
Finally, battery life has been worse than 2.1, so far. I'll be sure and give it a few days to "normalize" a bit, and also drain to about 15% and charge to full a few times to hopefully calibrate the battery meter since it might not be properly calibrated.
Unless someone knows something I don't about this dialer to make selecting contacts as easy as it is using Sense and 2.1, that is a major deal breaker for me. I contact a lot of different people and can't stick everyone in my "Favorites" or else it will be just like my long list of contacts. Also, the overall lagginess. Is this something that just comes with the ADW launcher? Any suggestions? Before I toss and forget about FroYo and go back to 2.1, I would like to know if there is something I am doing wrong. I'll still give a few days to see if it speeds up a bit.
It did not automatically download all my previously downloaded apps (thank goodness for Titanium). I thought that was one of the perks of FroYo.
And even after setting it to install everything to the SD card, many were not and I had to manually move about 75% of them. Even after a full 24 hours of normal use, it is still laggy when scrolling, swiping between screens, and when opening a few apps.
Second, the dialer has been very unimpressive for me. With Sense's dialer, you pull up the dialer and start typing the phone number or start spelling out a contact's name and it will bring up those contacts so all you do is touch the contact you want to call/message. It seems with this dialer I have to type the number completely, or I have to scroll all the way through every contact (unless it's a "Favorite" contact) to the one I want to call.
Finally, battery life has been worse than 2.1, so far. I'll be sure and give it a few days to "normalize" a bit, and also drain to about 15% and charge to full a few times to hopefully calibrate the battery meter since it might not be properly calibrated.
Unless someone knows something I don't about this dialer to make selecting contacts as easy as it is using Sense and 2.1, that is a major deal breaker for me. I contact a lot of different people and can't stick everyone in my "Favorites" or else it will be just like my long list of contacts.
I believe that Demache is incorrect about MMS - I receive them fine with WiFi, I send them fine with WiFi running. It's only when you receive a video message that you need to download that you need to turn off WiFi, just to do the download.
Is it normal for the reboot to take over half an hour with this after flashing and rooting for the first time?
I knew it'd take a while, but damn...over half an hour right now...
No, that's too long. It should be about 10 minutes, tops.
Did you do a factory reset/data wipe before you restarted the phone?
The basic procedure:
- restart phone in recovery
[optional] - Nandroid backup, to go back to what you have. Optional only if you know you are not going back, or you have a recent Nandroid backup and things haven't changed mich
- unless the developers says otherwise, wipe data. If you have apps on an ext partition on your SD card (don't worry if you do not know what this is), wipe ext as well.
- flash the new ROM.
- restart the phone
i like the way ADW looks, but i havent been able to custoimize it like LP.two points,
ADW I haven't had any issues with, I switched to LauncherPro, then decided to switch back to ADW, the latest updates seem to have resolved the lagging.
Camera app, works fine if you replace the current one with a previous build from v34.
xda-developers - View Single Post - [ROM]KaosFroyo V35 [09/17] [FROYO]
alternatively you can grab it from the V34 ROM file.
You've all heard this before, but I'm saying it again... IT'S LIKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PHONE!
I had been lamenting the fact that I'd need to spend a bunch of money to get a phone with better processing power. Not anymore! My sleek little Eris is running like a champ, and I'm thrilled. There's virtually zero lag at any time.
One glitch: the Bluetooth connection between the phone and my Garmin Zumo 550 cycles endlessly. Any ideas?
please elaborate.One question: What's the deal with vibrate mode?
You can't have separate silent and vibrate options? It's one or the other?
please elaborate.
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