I'm extremely thrilled to hear that virtually everything I've experienced is being suffered by someone else.
Apparent speed of the device itself seems slower. I've not timed it, and this may be more psychological than anything as I grow more frustrated. However, it does feel a bit laggy. Keep in mind that in order to create as fast a response as possible, I long ago disabled all of the device's transition effects (it doesn't look as pretty, but it's
fast).
I've got a 20MB pipe that runs a server, 1-3 laptops, and a variety of handheld devices as my daughters come in and out of the house. I routinely get 1.5MB torrent downloads for new HD
Doctor Who episodes. My bandwidth is fine.
As of yesterday's force to FRG01B, the networking (wifi seems worst) has been at best slow. At least 25% of the time, it fails entirely.
YouTube is useless. I assume that because of the fouled network connection, the player simply times out on the stream.
The Gallery lags badly. I assume this is because of the fouled network connection attempting to load Picasa albums and ultimately failing.
Any app (and they are legion) that needs a good Internet connection is now unstable. Because the device can't get decent network connectivity, timeouts are reached and the apps tend to fail.
I play "Trap!" -- an addictive little game involving bouncing balls on the screen. The interesting thing about this app is that it's one of the few affected by the
2D graphics bug introduced in the 2.1 upgrade.
If anything, the performance of "Trap!" is
worse under FRG01B than under 2.1.
To be a bit more scientific, I downloaded the
LagTest app to check results, and it seems to show that the 2D bug may have been resolved.
It's unclear, then, what might be causing "Trap!" to lag.
Oh, and Flash simple
sucks. There's no other way to say it. I tried playing
Falling Girl, one of the oldest, simplest Flash games out there. The girl falls slow as molasses in January. Really. Jagged, slow-motion falling. The simple control of click-and-hold doesn't translate into press-and-hold on the handheld. There's no way to interact with the game.
Even if you did, it's so laggy as to be pointless. This may be due in part to network connectivity issues, at least with respect to streaming Flash videos. But Falling Girl is so simple that it ought to load very quickly with no further streaming. It shouldn't be so pointlessly slow.
I've not experienced any problems with local media, but I use Meridian and haven't had occasion to run a playlist in the last 24 hours. I'll fire up "Bill's Party Mix" and see how it goes.
I suspect that the only way to deal with this will be some bright cookie rooting FRG01B. Once done, ROM Manager should work, and one can revert to 2.1.
Short of that, if the FRG22 update resolves these problems, then Verizon/Motorola/Google needs to get it out there ASAP. If there's an FRG22 that's been
pushed to some users as reported, we need that file right the frak away.
Bill Stone
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