[G2 and Desire Z General] sundar2012:
I thought I would share this with those of you on here who are nerdy enough to appreciate.

I got the g2 shortly after it came out, upgrading from the horrendous motorola cliq, which was an upgrade from the original G1 that I had lost in cab. The CLIQ was an experience that convinced me never to get a motorola phone again. For those of you not in the loop (consider yourself very lucky/smart) - the cliq launched with android 1.5 and motorola promised an update to 1.6 - then they said they were working on 2.0 - then 2.1. After literally 9 months of delays and promises and delays they still hadn't released 2.1 and we were still on 1.5 missing out on all the new apps. The dev community was tiny with HandlerExploit and TravisJames doing the rom work and a few sharp guys who rooted the phone and moved on to greener pastures. So i naturally jumped at the chance to get a new device on t-mobile - and the g2 with its "stock android" (and therefore easy updates and potentially more devs) pulled me in more than the vibrant/galaxy s. In retrospect, the only reason time to get a new handset is when cyanogen himself gets it.

Since getting the G2 I've devoted hours to scouring the forums, trying the latest patches and hacks before we had root, installing roms, increasing performance, comparing quadrants with my colleagues with nexus ones and droids, modding, modding, hacking, my g2 was hacked to shreds and put back together by this community into something more than just a phone - it was a powerhouse of AWESOMENESS. in between bouts of g2, i had rooted, hijacked and installed Liberty on my girlfriends droid x. Then I did it again - at my friends bar during a 30 minutes chat about how slow some random guy's droid x. I was officially addicted to the root.

Its worth noting that when I got the g2 I thought about going Office Space on the cliq. Taking it out back and beating the **** out of its evil motorola guts - but I was too happy with the g2 to care about how awful motorola and the cliq had been. In fact I had largely forgotten about my cliq until a few weeks ago when I found it push way back in a shelf. While doing some spring cleaning in my apartment I found the cliq hidden away behind a keyboard and my dreaded tax files. As I was cleaning, I avoided my girl friends death stare and kept that old hateful piece of **** cliq - there was something telling me that it had a place - that despite its evil of motoblur and bootloader bull**** there was redemption to be had for that briq of a phone. I was not ready to say goodbye to the CLIQ - no matter how evil its maker was, it was still a droid at heart.

Then my G2 broke last Sunday. The screen just wigged out and started showing black and white lines. I could still receive phone calls due to turning on the "trackbutton to accept" option in cm7 but that was it. So there I was, with a broken G2 - no ball and chain to the office email, no constant facebook messages, no calls from my girl asking me to pick up a bottle of wine when i'm a block from her place, no text messages interrupting my dinners, but most of all, no phone to flash nightlies and mod - I was understandably a total mess.

I went to the t-mobile store first thing on Monday - they said it was manufacturing defect and accepted the phone without issue. However, they wouldn't give me a new one on the spot - i would have to wait till corporate mailed me a new one.

I went home, dejected, wanted to throw on my headset and listen to pandora - but with no g2 to pair it to. But in the midst of sorrow, I saw the CLIQ. The path to redemption had begun. I went to work - scouring the old forums and Handler Exploits simply-android site. By the end of the evening I was running Cyanogen Mod 6 and had that thing overclocked to a gut wrenching 768 mghz - about half of what my g2 was running at. I stripped down the system/app and system/lib getting rid of every unnecessary app to get the sluggish system to go faster. Finally i was surfing, texting, checking facebook - without wanting to break the damn phone in half.

I ran a quadrant on it today: 362. Not 3620 tegra zone scores - not the 2800 i was pulling on the g2 - no this was 362 MOTO BRIQ scores. My colleague here at the office whose OG Droid is running CM thanks to me is running angry birds and I can barely get Maps to run without lag. I feel like i've gone from a Ferrari to a Model T - but hey, I can still make phone calls and post to FB. I just hope that and my girl's droid x will be enough android to get by till Monday.