I rooted a while back and have been on the flash fence for a couple of weeks. Tonight, I have freed my android from the clutches of Telus and installed Ginger Villain 1.0

So far, speedier, more room, no sense; clean interface. Like it!

 

Just a little update. I'm not one to time things too much but, today I wanted to see how the battery life was with a fully charged Desire on GingerVillain 1.0

As of 9am today:

Idled 30min.
Surfed, FB & twitter for about 1 hour.
Idled 2hrs, 1 received call during that time, 5-6min.
Watched 2 video clips and surfed a couple of sites, FB and some Twitter.
Read my CompTIA PDF for 45min-1hr.
Idled 30min, made 2 short calls.
Some more surfing, also went to Market download/installed, 5 apps.
Adjusted/played with settings as well for a few minutes here and there.

idling now at 5pm... 45% charge left.

In the stock ROM I'd be near 25% or less by now. As far as I'm concerned, this is fantastic.

 

Just a quick snapshot of my home screen. I'd like Last Call widget to work but, it doesn't appear in the Add Widget option. Any other suggestions for a similar widget would be great.

 

Thanks for the welcome Staggers.

I installed Last Call Widget v1.9.11 as a clean install from the Market, after loading GV. I press and hold a blank area on screen, select Widgets and the 2 widget (1x2 and 1x4) options are not there.

 

Hmm, same issue with Pure Calender, no widget capability.

 

Thanks for the info Staggers. Now for the embarrassing part, now that you mention it, I set for everything to install to the SD by default. I forgot some apps still need to be installed internally.

I flashed to Oxygen 2.0 RC7 last night thinking maybe GV was a bad install on my part or something unknown. May give it a try for a while, so far it seems very similar to GV apart from no video.

Being new at this is there anything you know of that GV has over Oxygen?

 

Thanks everyone, that's what the issue was. BTW, GV 1.0 is back on