[HD2 Android NAND Development] ASCIIker:
i've been moving from one runnymede rom to another since the past 4 months. devs like you are doing great work, cuz each of these runnymede roms i've tried in the past have gotten progressively better and better. and now this one!

flash time was about 10 mins, first boot was about 25 mins. and THANK YOU for introducing me to the "4EXT" recovery. such a life saver with battery charging support and advanced formatting options. you might notice i haven't changed my signature (mostly out of laziness) since the last 6 months...but i will update my signature tonight to reflect my new favorite rom...thank you dansta!

so...funny story following...and lessons to be learned!

i was all set up a few hours later, apps restored, messages restored, and all my data on FAT32 restored from my desktop. so i went to sleep, then went to work in the morning. i loved how well everything was working, so i decided to take a CWM backup. few minutes after that, the rom became EXTREMELY sluggish with the usual "force close or wait" messages. i formatted all but sdcard and restored TWICE. no dice. at one point, all my 10000+ text messages disappeared after the messaging app crashed. it takes AGES to restore so many messages but i can be very patient, and i only choose a rom after careful research because my "process" is long and tedious and meticulous... :D

so i came home in the evening, mentally preparing myself for a full wipe and fresh install.

then i just did a filesystem check on my FAT32 partition via 4EXT recovery and it reported errors!

so i though to myself, maybe these errors on my FAT32 were causing the rom to become unstable. i let 4EXT fix the filesystem errors and decided to try a restore a THIRD time before diving into the chaos of a full wipe and fresh install. and now the build is happily purring along in its super-stable-frantic-crazy-mad-speed-demon kind of way! (SAME backup that i tried TWICE before!)

so for anyone facing EXTREME random sluggishness, check your FAT32 partition for errors! in my case, the FAT32 errors might have been introduced during 4EXT's backup operation, or maybe when i restored almost 12GB of data from my desktop onto my sdcard. i shutdown the phone and used a card reader to minimize restore time, so maybe they might have happened when the build had to index a lot of music and pictures all of a sudden on the subsequent boot...i dunno, but this is definitely a troubleshooting step i'd recommend for anyone facing instability.

other than that, here are a few minor observations/suggestions:

1. i was coming from a runnymede rom (sbryan's awesome but now discontinued runnymede), so i was expecting this TBD build to restore my apps from the market automatically once i had my google account punched it. that mechanism never kicked in for some reason, so i had to recall about 50+ apps from memory and installed them via the market manually :eek:

2. i tried changing bootup and shutdown animations using rcmix tweaks...but i think this functionality is broken. please check! i tried setting the "default" bootup and "default" shutdown animations, but the result is that the shutdown animation never happens. and the bootup animation is just a white, shimmering "android" text on a black background, no matter which particular bootup animation i chose.

3. i would like to suggest including steven lin's "keyboard from android 2.3" instead of the stock gingerbread keyboard. steven's is a much improved version with gestures and on-demand arrow keys, with the same look and feel as the stock gingerbread keyboard.

its been 24 hours now, battery life remains to be seen, but initial indications are that the battery life seems just like all the other runnymede roms i've tried on my device, i.e. not good :( last "modern" rom i used that had decent battery life was xxxpachaxxx's desire HD based rom back in september 2011...it had a heiros kernel back then. i've always suspected that perhaps the newer kernels might be the cause, or it could just be the heaviness of the runnymede base. but then the newer kernels offer so much more (glitches fix anyone? :D) so its all good!

great work and thanks once again! get well soon, i am going thru my "yearly" pollen allergy these days, so lots of sneezing and flu-like symptoms here too!