[G1 General] GelGen:
When I switched my phone providers I had to also swap phones because my old carrier was CDMA and the new one was UMTS. As a result I bought off a friend an HTC Dream G1 which he was running some previously beta ROM on it (I never mothered to check what it was but it was apparently a beta).A week after I got it we decided to upgrade it to a "newer custom ROM and so I was persuaded to reflash the phone with FroyoByLaszlo 2.6.34.8 (Mod version 5.2, Android ersion 2.2.1). An accidential softbrick (forgot to add the fonts) and another reload later I had it working and I went home that night and went to bed.

That was two months ago. To this day I regret this upgrade as I have had nothing but hell come from this phone in the form of so many bugs, it makes my middle class apartment look clean.

Notably annoying bugs include:

-Sluggish performance. (it does not take fifteen seconds for the camera to start, 45 seconds just to call someone, and other apps that worked fine previously just love to hang.)

-Unresponsive controls. (if you force close something because you think the app ahs hung, sometimes the phone will continue to register the button as pressed and continue to force close anything that gets in its way.)

-Phone drops data connection. (if you leave the phone alone, it will just drop its data link and you must cycle the radio on and off to get it back.)

-Phone roams when it loses its signal. (I go into and out of a tunnel and in the middle of downtown Vancouver I go from full signal with 3G to roaming and no data. Again, you have to cycle the radio to get everything back.)

-SD card will not auto-mount properly. (it says the card is damaged (it isn't) when you (or it) restart the phone and can only be cleared and accessed by unmounting, removing and inserting the card, then remounting.)

-Phone apparently has no memory. (I made sure 32mb was free onboard and there is 3 gigs still free on the SD card (and enough free RAM just in case) yet when you try to download an app or you try to update something (no matter what size, like say a 120k update), it will download but then fail to install because it cites insufficient memory. Rebooting will not clear the problem. It also worked fine for the first week then decided to do this.)

-Apps do not respond to events. (I have on particular app that notifies me of preset USGS earthquake alarms and it worked flawlessly on the old ROM. On the new one it worked for about a week, then while it still had all its settings and was able to display past events it decided it was NOT going to notify me about them when the phone received them.)

-Phone crashes like nobody's business. (I can be playing with an app or even sleeping when the phone decides to go TU and reboot because it crashed.)

I have not even done any advanced tweaks. All settings are essentially stock. I have not even changed the wallpaper yet.

The previous owner of the phone had OCD and it was NOT mishandled. It also worked flawlessly for the six months he owned it. The only likely culprit is this god awful ROM and it makes me want to punch babies.

No. Really. I'm willing to walk into VGH, enter the infant ward and just start punching little kids just to express my anger on just how miserable this has made me in the two months I have owned it.

When we flashed the phone the page we got the ROM from said this was a stable release. This is anything BUT stable. I can barely even use google on the thing because it takes forever to do anything and everything wants to update but you can't because it's straight-out retarded.