[Desire Android Development] Daelyn:
1: AOSP (

Oxygen

, previously OpenDesire and before that Defrost)

2: As you said, all this is is preferential to who. I have

never used anything else

than AOSP, except first week of HTC Sense (see Answer 5 for further info). I really love the clean and tidy AOSP, but, if I were after the fancy pansy graphics I would most likely turn to a Sense ROM. I am unaware of the capabilities of MIUI but it looks nice also.

3: AOSP

4: I am yet to find anything that I need or like that does not work on AOSP. Worth to think about here is mainly use my phone for calls and texts. But it's good to know I can do anything (so far) I like with it. RemoteDesktop, Linux stuff, play a game (Angry Birds ofc :D), listen to music or play a movie.

5: The more fancy pancy stuff is, the more code is in it, and therefore more prone to errors and use of processing power (battery time etc). Basically I do not like Sense because it's bloaty **** in my opinion. Can't take it. Until I've felt, looked at and tried out MIUI I can not say much about. I will most likely not thou.

6: Stock AOSP Dialer. I had Dialer One temporarily, but I noticed I really didn't need it. Stock with my seven favorite contacts is working just fine for me. Would love if Stock Dialer integrated a better search for contacts thou.

7: ChompSMS. Love it. In stock messaging app it's a bit perplexing to see what is what now and again. I switched to Handcent first day, but it bugged out so I turned to ChompSMS and have used it since (soon 10 months).

8: Stock Browser. It lacks features for sure, but it's very lightweight and works for anything I've come across so far. I have installed FireFox just to try it out, but it's massive. For the ultimate browsing experience I would suspect Dolphin or Firefox, but I don't need to browse the web in a fancy pancy manner. I enter my URL and BAM! I'm there, happy.

9: I used Stock Launcher (Froyo and Gingerbread) until Oxygen switched to Zeam Launcher for a few releases. Since then I've not found a reason to switch back. I liked it instantly.

10: NOPE. I used SetCPU for a while to optimize but noticed I didn't gain more than a couple of hours and have since not really bothered. (I usually get a good 40-72 hours).

11: Default have changed in releases, so I've changed too. Pixie Dust for messaging and notifications and Digital Phone for calls. I think it once where defaults back in the day. Stock LED notifications/colours

12: The only widget I have currently is "Weather widgets (yr.no)". It gives me weather and time. Previously I used Power Control to control WiFi/BT/Brightness etc, but it's now integrated into Notifications menu.

Additional comments:

As you most likely noticed above I'm easy to please in some sense, but not in others. I want it clean, fast and trustworthy. No animations crap and yadda yadda, keep only what I need on the phone (back up and wipe away apps I seldom use), etc. It makes me a picky user :D

I love what

richardtrip

(DeFrost) and

AdamG

(OpenDesire, now Oxygen) has brought to the Desire. I would probably resort to suicide because my phone would have been such a bloaty mess if it wasn't for them.

The only think I now miss on Android is rSAP (A bluetooth function). I don't use it currently, but I don't like knowing Nokia and others can use it but I can't. I think it's patent and license stuff that's the reason (Nokia invention if I'm not remembering wrong). Thought about trying to code it myself, but since I'm not a programmer in any way I will most likely never succeed.

I think this was what I could contribute with. I've thought many times about writing a Do and Don't thread about some stuff, but from the history of this forum section I'm sure the vast majority the subject targets would look past it anyways :/

AOSP (and OpenSource stuff generally) rules! Enjoy.