All I have to say is wow.... This has rekindled my love for Android. With the iPhone4 here, I was REALLY considering eating the costs to leave Verizon and join the iPhone bandwagon (although I DO love my Macbook Pro) - This ROM has me a believer again. I cant thank the Sapphire team enough!
I want to let everyone here know that the problems I had posted about in the past posts were all due to user error. There is nothing wrong with this ROM whatsoever that couldnt be solved without simple wipes and reinstalls. Afterall, the best practice is to install a new ROM on a clean slate anyway. I was attempting to getaway without that, and of course, it lead to issues.
So, as promised, I have used the ROM for the entire morning pushing it in every way I could. Im VERY VERY impressed.
WiFi Tethering through WiFi Tether app is flawless. The older ROMs would constantly drop the signal and caused for some spotty surfing. I have had no such issues on this build
Browser. I know that Google had claimed that the 2.2 Froyo browser is the fastest of all smart phones. Naturally, YouTube is full of iPhone users claiming otherwise, heck, even the Evo4 users were beating Froyo (leaked) on their speed tests. Im here to say that this build can put that claim to truth. The browser is scary fast, damn near Desktop fast. I have not tested Flash yet, but plan to shortly.
Force Closes - all I have to say about this is "Force Wha?" - non existent. I was getting a ton of these, including random reboots with other ROMs. Not the case anymore
Battery life - *evil grin* Im no longer afraid to use my phone for things other than text and email. I had a 30 min call with the wife back in California (in NY on business), sent many emails, tons of texts, and used the WiFi Tethering for an hour. All in all, the display was on for a good 3 hours. I spent much time on the browser testing the new YouTube App, checking out various forums etc. As of this post, my battery indicator is still showing 80%, and just dropped to the 80% icon from 100% about 30min ago. I stayed at 100% for a solid 2.5 hours.
Responsiveness - As to be expected, the default launcher seems a little laggy, and a lot less smooth than Launcher Pro (Beta) I slapped that on and now have iPhone smooth transitions and scrolling. I couldnt ask for more.
Heat - Is it just me or does this ROM run cooler?? Im running Chevy's 1.25ghz medium Kernel and its absolutely perfect with this ROM. I leave the phone at 1ghz, but used 1.25gh for benchmarking
Which brings us to benchmarking - Using the other ROMs nd various Chevy and P3 Kernels, was usually in the low 1300s, and SOMETIMES hit 1400-1410ish... All I can say is this ROM coupled with Chevy's 1250med ROM - BEAST!!!!!!!!
Quadrant score = 1523, thinking it was a fluke I restarted the phone and scored another 1556
Sorry for the fuzzy image, my iSight on my Mac has a hard time focusing on small digital text.
So, to the guys at Sapphire, my hat is off to you!!! Cant wait for the next releases!
Also, regarding battery life, you can see the icon in the pic, thats after 3.5 solid hours of usage at the time of this post, no recharging, no USB connection. Battery life is solid.
