[Fascinate Android Development] Syndacate:
Agreed, I think a lot of the talk was both hear-say and "it's stable, therefore, it should be PERFECT" - it's like "have you even see the crap verizon/samsung releases as 'stable'?"

I'm on 110 too, much like 89, not a single hiccup. I've had extremely good luck with the nightlies, once in a blue moon I get the sleep of death or a random reboot or something, but two things: A) You're looking at that stuff with any AOSP GB ROM ATM, and B) Compared to stock? Seriously? Sure, I never had any random reboots or sleeps of death with Froyo, but Froyo TW also sucked balls in terms of UI lag and compared to Eclair it had its own set of problems...enough so anyway that I installed DL09 back and didn't OTA Froyo.

Here, reception is as it was with the OEM SW, and the battery life is MUCH better, I was getting killed with battery life on the OEM SW, much more so when I upgraded from Eclair to Froyo - even after I disabled the defaulted-on "never make my wifi sleep" crap. Thank god for the CM7 devs, they saved my phone, totally, and are the reason I'm going back for another Android experience.

When I was at the Verizon store multiple times looking at phones, the phones I was looking for were the ones with the least lag in the UI...that's sad when you're shopping for phones that way...hate to say it but the iPhone has no UI lag unless there's lots of background tasks...so wtf? Why should I shop using UI lag as my main metric? And it's not like they're improving either, just packing phones with more bloat-ware to go along with the faster processors and more memory. I'd probably be pulling my hair out and going to an iPhone next time if it wasn't for well built, community driven ROMs such as UKB 2.1, CM7, VGB, etc.

Possibly, though I was getting massive 3G issues at my last internship because the cell service there blew, I had like 105-110-X inside, always. I didn't get sleep of death issues, I just got my 3G dropped 16,000 times over. I believe that problem still exists, though nobody backs me up on it. I noticed it while I was driving cross country, if you're in a state that's very desolate and you go like 2 hours between cell towers, sometimes you pick up your phone and you have no 3G. People claimed it was due to WiFi switching, but that's a crock IMO, it had something to do with 3G connection/strength. Also didn't have anything to do with the ESN swaps, because that didn't fix it either. Guess I'll worry about that when I live in an area with poor reception, though.

lol, yes, I almost battery pulled the other day after sleep of death then I was like 'wait' - up+power = reboot - yay.

I have seen that issue before, though definitely not as of passed very very low CM7 night build numbers.

What's your reception like? I'm pretty sure that issue is still around when signal strength is very low, but not many people acknowledge it as they typically don't spend all day at almost 110db.

I don't run any of my apps on the SD card and I haven't experienced this, have you tried not putting anything (app wise) on the SD? I'm not sure why you're getting tons of FC's and such. What kernel you running? Are you undervolted?

Some people have certain issues that you're speaking of, but there doesn't seem to be a trend as far as I can tell...just seems to be hit or miss per PERSON (not build).

Weird, I haven't had a single issue like you're experiencing except when I've installed OS's w/o completely wiping the old one first (doing factory reset).

Then again, it sounds like you're having a lot of trouble with the navigation app - I don't use that, I just use regular google maps and its built-in navigation if I need it. Though different strokes for different folks I guess.

I'm actually amazed that people are having problems, like, mine has been ROCK solid stable. Don't even see a reason to upgrade when my contract is up except for 'because' - but new phones, latest and greatest = win :).

Yeah, I'm thinking the result of a restore or bad install myself. I've never backed up/restored - ever - no point in it - all contact data is in the cloud, all apps can be re-downloaded it, and all media is on SD. Though you only have to do that when you change OS's. The only problem I've ever had with massive FC's and instability was when I installed MIUI right ontop of CM7 without doing a factory reset. That raped my phone. So I wouldn't be surprised if most, if not all of these problems come from people restoring from backups that didn't go smoothly (be it the backup or the restore), unmatched data with the backups (old OS/backup tool), or bad installs.

What did you have on it before 111? I'm running 110 and its been rock solid so far. Granted, only been 2 days.

I've had hit or miss GPS luck, at first it was super quick lock, then from like build 30 to 89 (inclusive or exclusive of 89 because I didn't try it on 89) it didn't lock for ****, but there's all sorts of tweaks for GPS. On 110 I just turned mine on now and it locked in 3-5 seconds the first time, then about 2 seconds after its open. Kickass!!

GPS seems hit or miss, the build I was on before 89 (68) wouldn't lock for **** on me. Never tried it on 89 but now 110 is locking damn near instantly. Running unmodified GPS configs, standard JT kernel, and ED05 radio. It has me pretty much pin-pointed in my appt.