[Milestone XT720 Android Development] thejaycan:
Hi gang, I had CM7.1 (update-cm-7.1.0-MilestoneXT720-beta-30102011-signed.zip over CBW sbf) on my phone for the past few days and wanted to share my experiences and hopefully get some questions answered. Starting with Pros/Cons

-Pros-

1) I like the configurability of the lockscreen -adding 4 additional direct launch buttons

2) I REALLY like the fact that the 3 LEDs work and can be configured to blink for different apps (LED notifications). Different "color" selections will light different LEDs. I played with LED Me Know a lot in the past but could never get it to work, I know it's small point but I'm really happy about this. Can this also be done in CM6, MZ?

3) Long press of the back button to kill apps seems to work better than in CM6, no idea why. In CM6, sometimes the long press will say "application killed" but it only goes back one screen.

4) Controlling music with volume/camera buttons with screen off is awesome.

5) Browser- It may be just a tad slower, but seems to work better with embedded Youtube videos.

6) New Market worked right outta the clean boot. I know some people hate it, but I was just surprised it worked when many others couldn't get it to work.

7) I like the glowing overscroll effect.

-Cons-

1) Memory! I know this is largely b/c Gingerbread wants 512M RAM, but the launcher closes (redraws) all the time even after Supercharging it with different settings (and Supercharger's Hard-to-Kill Launcher). I had very good experiences with FJFalcon's fastboot boot5.img. With the swap, the launcher doesn't have to redraw and some programs will actually stay open in the background (letting me come back right to where I was). Thanks for FJ for the swap and MZ for the down volume key at boot for fastboot.

2) Problems with the Notification Power Widget- Toggle Brightness only lets me dim but wont let me return to "auto". Toggle Sound only lets me go to vibrate, but not return to sound or go to silent.

3) Toggle2G app (great battery saver) doesn't seem to want to keep settings after a reboot (although it seems there's a new version which I need to try)

4) Link2sd- I can't seem to get this to work after playing with it a lot, but after setting the default installation location to external and using the move to sd features of Titanium Backup Pro, I've managed to get nearly all my apps on the SD and still have 105MB free on the internal.

5) Random Screen-off death- As noted by others, sometimes the screen will not turn on after being switched off. This leads to a reboot (and re-fastboot for swap :-) ), I have not figured out the pattern yet.

6) Camera- If I try to take a picture at 8M, it crashes. At 5M it works, but it has the first picture lag common with the other ROMs. I might try the LG.

7) Battery- After flashing and recalibrating battery, I can only get about 5 hours life before dropping to 15%. Not too much use, but in my experience batt life was better on CM6. Perhaps it's because I use swap all the time now.

8) Intermittent wifi problems- Sometimes it works great -"excellent" signal, other times I get "poor" signal when sitting in the same place (in the room with the AP).

9) 3G/Wifi bars turn white - No clue what's going on with this, but sometimes I lose all internet connectivity and the signal bars turn white. Reboot fixes the problem.

10) "3G wireless hotspot" and "wireless tether 2.0.7" don't work (soft reboot and Force Close, respectively) - they worked in CM6. But as mentioned earlier in the posts, this is a known issue.

Overall, I think I'm happy with the ROM. I wish I could upgrade the RAM in my phone :-). Congrats on the hard work you guys, I never thought I'd see gingerbread on this phone!