Here's another bit o smack for y'all. Those who upgraded to this leaked version, no, you wont receive the OTA update as your Kernel will be that of the most current and updated one.
yeah I like to impress people too by saying "kernal" sometimes I even drop a "CLI" in there....man people think I'm good when the fingers are flying on that plain old black screen.
Anyway all the doom and gloom I have experienced very little heartache and could live with this anyway.
lets see the cons:
Awake time was maxed: handcent as default didnt fix, chomp did other than the stupid bubbles I like it better than handscent anyway..fixed
single vibrate when making call: does do this intermittantly but honestly I would not have even noticed it if I hadn't read it here.
google login on reboot: kinda sucks but its a once a day thing now and will be more like once every two weeks when the "newness" wears off.
Addy book: the insta linking to facebook is kinda cool kinda not, getting used to it, I guess I could always just "unlink" them so...not sure if this is a "bug" or and "improvement" primary gets set by the phone and seems to be no way to change I could just not be looking hard enough.
Signal meter: always reads low, but so did mine on 1.5 just reads lower now. don't care because I've convinced myself its giving me the EVDO strength, so if I have data, voice will be fine regardless of that silly antenna
pros:
speed, way faster and I never complained about 1.5 thought it was fine
battery: wayyyy better, sitting idle I'd lose a bar on the battery in 2 hours, now I can surf, dl from market text a few people in those two hours before that bar drops off.
additional apps, but the first two are the ones for me, I might try running without sense just cause if its this quick with it why not?? i like Sense but dont "need" it.
so even if I can't get the official, if it forces a wipe I don't know if i'd do it anyway? right now the problems I'm having are well not worth griping about.
So to the folks who are waiting patiently, I say good for you, if this wasn't a toy I'd be waiting too...not mission critical and if i brick it I can turn on a Storm or pearl flip in about 10 seconds so I would still have a phone and i understand not all folks have that luxury. I've seen some posts on here that make me think there are some ppl that should NOT attempt this on their own anyway.
To those proclaiming doom and gloom and virus' to the early adopters FU! You are the ones wanting it so bad you can taste it, but to chicken to do anything about it. Probably because mommy would ground you from your phone if you break it.