[Captivate Android Development] Charles Brennan:
Not always lavish with Praise . . . . .

Hey! Just because all the Froyo versions of Team Phoenix ROMs were sterling, didn't mean Mosaic was too! So I waited, beat on my phone every spare moment for nearly a week, upgraded to Mosaic II and considered thoughtfully, before deciding . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . that at the risk of sounding like a stuck record (had to explain what that was to my Granddaughter!) This phone is Officially:

Too Cool For Words! :D

My inherent joy at the smoothness of operation and richness of colors is tempered only by my innate greed, that somehow, the next rev might have something even BETTER!! :D

I have read with bemused interest, the Quadrant obsessions from various posters. As a musician, with a musician's "feel" and "timing" I can see what the Devs are talking about, in that the smoothness and response are nearly identical in the phone itself even with varying Quadrant scores. There was just a slight lag from Mosaic I to Mosaic II, explained away as prop file edits. Since I jumped the gun recently, getting my feet wet with GingerBread in anticipation of a Phoenix GB ROM, I happened to have Talon and EXT-4 installed, instead of the stock Mosaic I Re-oriented Kernel which was not overwritten during the Mosaic-I install.

In preparation for Mosaic II, I converted back to RFS and Odin'ed (LOVE all the new Android "verbs"!) the Oriented kernel and yes, after the Mosaic-II install, there was a slight lag and reduced Quadrant scores. I beat on the phone all day getting a "feel" for what's new and decided to install Talon v.1.6 and the EXT4 add-on kit. Quadrant scores did jump, but the feel and smoothness remained the same. That slight lag that I had noticed with M-II that I did NOT notice with M-I/Talon was now completely gone. The difference in Quadrant scores is all out of proportion to the difference in the performance "feel" of the ROM. (Which I totally LOVE!) :D

I personally feel that further Quadrant obsession is "mouse milk".

When the operation of my Captivate is virtually identical on Mosaic II and my Quadrant scores are ~ 1500 with Oriented and ~2500 with Talon and the phone feels exactly the same, the Devs are entirely correct: Quadrant scores are a joke.

One final thought to the Quadrant Freaks:

Go to your nearest AT&T store and play with a stock Captivate. Whaddaya think THAT Quadrant Score is?!? :rolleyes:

Every time I'm at the mall I go into a store and play with a Captivate and laugh to think: I USED TO THINK THAT WAS A COOL PHONE!! HAH!! :D

Since this is SUCH a fast-moving ROM (I barely learn where everything is, than some of it's GONE and other brand-new things are suddenly THERE! Sorta like Alice In Wonderland) I don't always know if some things are SUPPOSED to be the way they are.

My GPS icon that I can turn on with either the Power Widget, or the Notification Status Bar, does NOT appear in the notification status bar as a GPS icon, UNLESS I turn on a GPS-related app, like GPS Test+ or GPS Status, or Marine Weather, etc. Then, the rather cool GPS icon from JoeDV's Cosmic Color Lite theme immediately displays in the Status Notification bar and remains continuously there, until I terminate the GPS-related app.

Ummm . . . . . . . . Is it SUPPOSED to be that way on PURPOSE?!? :confused: I can go with it either way, I'm just trying to figure out where "normal" is, when "normal" keeps ACCELERATING!!! :eek:

I also think these things are SOOOOO Customized and Tweaked and Modified, that questions to Devs, need to be prefaced in the future, with current configuration and modifications.

Something along the lines of:

"Hey Devs! My Mosaic-II, Talon v 1.6, EXT-4 enabled, JK4 modem, using Touch Pro Launcher and CosmicLiteCircleBattery theme only shows the GPS icon in the Status Notifier bar when a GPS-enabled app is running. Was this by design?" :confused:

Without the Rom rev, Kernel Rev, Modem used, File system in use, and Launcher of choice, there is probably no good way to quantify ANY response. In the Gap between Knowledge and Superstition, we're only about two levels away from shaking goat entrails at the volcano!

"Reading Between The Lines" in some of these threads, it's clear we're all Apples and Oranges here and probably half the questions are "assuming facts not entered as evidence" to quote about a Bazillion TV shows.

But I still wanna know about the GPS icon behavior!! :)

Did I Scotch it with an add-on, or is there something else I should be aware of?

Thanks for such a marvelous family of ROMs, guys.

I see all of your Strenuous Labors, every time I hit the switch or swipe the screen.

It's weird to think you can store about a Man/Year of volunteer labor, in such a tiny package.

It's nice, knowing I've got such a bunch of good guys in my hip pocket (hiding inside my ROM) to get me through the day.

I appreciate you ALL, more than you can know, Charles Brennan