Scrolling notes on loading:
All nandroided up I commence the update (and how is it that I always end up applying this from recovery, even when I've got ROM manager. Guess I'm just untrusting.) oooh....pretty new boot animation. I do like gemstones, so this makes me happy. Shallow, probably, but happy as well.
Helix2 as an home option??? Oh, yeah, I had it installed in my system, but it's been so long since it functioned post-Froyo that I forgot about it. Opened out of curiosity, but, by the transvestite ghost of J. Edgar Hoover, the lag THE LAG, I'd forgotten about the lag.
I take a moment to think that I was going to go out this evening and do some midnight gardening (the best kind when you are in Houston in the summer.) I should also be getting some more work done. I foresee staying up until long after the sun has arisen doing what I should have been doing before I got sucked into this. Curse you, Keebler ROM Elves (see previous post)!!!
Sonofa randy chinchilla! Google sync is actually syncing for me (a process as rare as a warmongering beauty queen.) Course I'm not sure I want to spend all this time downloading, but it's nice to have a Market that works from the getgo.
Poking my grimy fingers into Dev Tools while I let the downloads skyrocket my data usage. Good gravy, a running applications that actually let you know the com.whatever.you'llneverfindthisuntilyouuselsinadb.hahaha of what's running, which for some reason my running services menu did not always want to do for some system apps. Sweet. Ooh a process limiter. I can see where that could be waaaaaay handy. A touch screen tester labeled "Pointer Location" that I am unashamedly using as an Etch-a-Sketch. Various and sundry handy doodads for developers that being the lazy non app-developer that I am will probably never use. Except the google login service; I've had google go hinky on me before, and this would have rocked. Same for the sync tester. I'm sure others will explore this in more detail later. Moving on...Let's play with some apps, shall we?
This will matter to a few, but ah, even the new 3.1 version of MotoTorch works. I hold heart because I know how hard Eclipse is working, but ah, it is nice to have it again. You know, this seems like a little thing, but dang I'd like it if I didn't have to go back every time to Settings>Applications to check the allow non-Market apps. Something about this security precaution being enabled after I've installed (perhaps not this exact ROM) but let's say...other leaked super-early, fairly unverified ROMs onto the phone...amuses me. Everything seems to be playing nice, which you'd expect from magical ROM elves who don't believe in fixing what ain't broke in the original code. GAAAH! "Incoming Message" I haven't had a audible notification in so long, that the voice scared the bejeebus out of me. The reboot option on the power button is shiny, shiny indeed. Especially getting to reboot into recovery.
OK, well initial impressions are done. I'll think about looking at themes and the like. I'm guessing that this will meld like laying themes over stock, but that's merely a hypothesis at this point. I've got to earn the cashy money afore the eatings of the foods.
