[HD2 Android NAND Development] ASCIIker:
mr. carl1961! i should have posted this right after last weekend, the power failed when i was writing this post and i just came around to it again right now.

so, i tried UrDroid (the one from December 14th, 2011) this last weekend but quickly had to revert to dungphp's runny rom due to some problems. i didn't want my weekend to go to waste and i really want to see UrDroid succeed because i LOVE the concept! stock-like, as well as stock-like mods, great kernel choice(s), and everything neatly organized and arranged in the first post! very very professional feeling going through this thread :D

so here are my observations (in no particular order):

1. on my first attempt, i flashed the rom and continued to flash all the add ons and mods i chose from the first post...and THEN i let it go on for FIRST boot. turns out that this was not a good idea! the rom wouldn't boot (i waited for 45+ minutes on the FIRST splash screen!). perhaps you can mention it in your (already very clear) instructions, so that new comers know to allow the rom to boot a few times before flashing mods. i changed my approach for my second attempt, which worked fine (second splash appeared at about 5 minutes and first boot was about 30 minutes total)!

2. the boot sound enable mod works well. i found out that the CRT mod is already included! the stock-like percent battery works well! BUT the extended quick settings has issues!

a. the task-switcher from the "notifications" section of the "curtain" is removed if you install the extended quick settings. i'm not sure now that i think about it...maybe i saw it just after a fresh boot up when i haven't started any other apps...take this feedback with a grain of salt!

b. if each quick setting has a name, a caption, and a toggle/slider, then just about all the captions say "your phone is low on storage memory" (or some such) after installing the extended quick settings...i DID clear cache+dalvik cache after flashing the mod.

3. each boot is REALLY slow...i measured about 15-20 minutes! FYI, my 32GB sd-card is admittedly slow, but i get very reasonable boot times and overall performance with the last few sd-ext roms i've tried (xxxpachaxxx's, NRGZ's, and dungphp's). FYI, NRGZ's rom was also slow to boot for me (about 5+ minutes total per boot in that case). current rom, i.e. dungphp's, boots to the lock screen in about 100 seconds!

4. "terminal emulator" from market would install fine but would FC whenever i would try to run it :(

5. sometimes, both the "E" (for EDGE) and the wifi signal icon appear, even though i've kept my data connection to OFF.

6. the alarm icon in the notification bar disappears everytime i reboot. i didn't risk testing to see if the alarm would still go off. so i would enter the clock (by tapping the widget) and i would go into the alarms and would disable/enable all my alarms to be sure. the icon would return upon disabling/enabling the very first alarm my finger touches. i had (almost) this problem with NRGZ's runnymede rom as well.

7. overall, the rom feels a bit slower on my hardware than dungphp's. don't get me wrong, it was still quite fast (about similar to NRGZ's).

8. coming from xxxpachaxxx's desire HD ROM (with sense 2.1), i know that my hardware is capable of about 4MB write speed and about 8MB read speed when connecting the phone in usb disk mode. all runnymede roms i've tried give me about 1.8MB write speed...i THINK xxxpachaxxx mentioned some tweaks he did in "services.jar" (really my memory is vague!) to achieve the fast usb disk mode speeds.

9. would love to see UrDroid include the RCMix "Tweaks" package.

10. second splash (the animated one with the beats logo) runs somewhat "jerky".

11. couldn't verify if my "swap" partition was being put to good use (cuz i couldn't run terminal emulator to run the "free" command, mentioned in point 4 above)!

overall, i used the rom a bit while apps were installing and my messages were restoring. i got a good idea of what UrDroid is capable of becoming! so i took a CWM backup to re-visit it some day soon! for now, i thought i should share whatever i observed in my 6-7 hours of using UrDroid.

great work carl1961...the entire concept of UrDroid and how you've executed everything is EXCELLENT! go go go! :D