[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fri13:
Now testing 1.11 for this day few things has come up and some still remains. I made full wipes (all three) when updating from 1.10.

+ Network settings enabled for Saunalahti APN

+ Enabled headset mic to be used

+ Enabled echo canceling

New showstopper: Battery lifetime dropped dramatically. Now after 43 minutes of full charge it has only 32% of battery left. Usage has been just testing 1.11 features. Battery statics has not been wiped

Showstopper: MIcroSD card gets lost now and then, it gets checked at reboot but then it is lost so camera can not save photos or videos, gallery does not find it but just picasa and music is unavailable. The music player seems to trigger the bug. As when opening a player after reboot, it scans and list music for 1-2 seconds and then everything is lost and it shows "Learn how to add music" function.

Only way to get MicroSD card back is to take backcover off and eject card and insert it back. Then it works for while until somehow again it gets lost.

New minor bug: Camera is very slow to start at first time. Can be unresponsive for one minute until it wakes up. I believe the problem is related to MicroSD card problem. I think it is that camera finds card at first, but then it gets lost and camera waits card to respond. Altough first time camera is started and it responds and MicroSD card exist, the camera re-starts quickly.

Minor fix for camera on 1.11: the flash does not seem to get stuck ON when focusing and taking picture, but it gets turn OFF after photo is taken or focus has been done.

Minor bug: GPS position locking is hard to get if around are different cell towers from where the phone gets location. The position jumps around the towers forever. When moving to position where is anymore just one tower where it gets signal, it gets GPS position quickly and it maintains it. Someway feels problem of GPS location update, what example with GPS essentials application allows to change, when setting longer than 3-5 second update period, GPS loose its tracking and it starts querying position in loop.

Showstopper: Compass does not work. When starting compass app first time, it works 0.5 second and then it is locked. After rebooting the same thing can be seen, but compass does not work. When using third party apps like Google Maps the map rotation based compass direction does not use. And I am unsure about the functionality with newer Google Maps versions (6.3) as with 6.0 and 6.1 the map used navigation (blue) arrow to show the user facing. But now it is just a blue dot (since 6.1) and not until the user is moving and GPS is locked, the dot change to arrow to show the direction (Some way I like the blue dot thing, but I hope there would be somekind direction signal if so).

New feature: FM-radio seem to work perfectly with headset.

Minor bug: WLAN does not yet autoconnect at first time after boot. Not to WPA or WEP networks. Demands to manually connect network and after that, it does get autoconnected to WLAN until rebooting again.

Minor bug: WLAN hotspot does not work but stays on "Turning Wi-Fi on" forever. Demands reboot to get WLAN working again.

Showstopper: Saunalahti 3G network is permamentally lost if connecting to WLAN. After WLAN connection Saunalahti APN's are found, but connection can not be made. Only way to get 3G back is to reboot (turning airplane mode On and Off does not fix that).

Minor bug: Turning airplane mode On by pressing Power button, makes impossible to turn it back Off from power menu as that option is grayed out. Turning airplane mode off from Wireless & Network settings, unticks the mode, but Airplane mode icon stays and none of the mobile network settings can be changed (2G/3G or change between GSM and WCDMA). Reboot is needed.

Great 3G network speed: Tested and got 749KB/s download and upload to 207KB/s. Ping at best 75ms.

Call quality corrected: By enabling phone microphone and echo cancelation instead forced speaker mode for headset usage gave much needed improvement to call quality as phone real microphone is used correctly.

Testing to be done:

1. Does USB-tethering work

EDIT: USB-tethering does work great.

2. Wiping battery stats

3. Flashing back Official 2.2 and 2.3 to re-test speaker quality. As now it feels that all sounds (notifications, alarms etc) has small distortion at high pitch what sounds like gain is too much up.

4. Does echo cancelation microphone cause faint ticking sound to video recording what is caused by auto-focus while recording video. (Is there possibility to disable auto-focus while recording?).

Feature request:

Enable the handsfree mic to be used by default, force those who want to use normal headsets to force using a phone microphone.

Why? Because handsfree is meant to be used when wanted to keep phone in pocket or out ouf hand. Handsfree has the mic and answer button for that reason that users can use such. Forcing handsfree users to input terminal config to enable normal use is not logical. Headset users should do that because headsets are not being used for calling but just listening music or video sounds.

The U8800 phone comes with a handsfree and everyone should use them or other handsfree or then configure Android to use speaker mode.

Right now at least I had problem with microphone even without ever using headset or handsfree because mic was forced in speaker mode, what resulted terrible call quality and I needed to yell to get other party to hear something.

Just by forcing handsfree mic to be used (and echo cancelation) I got great call quality just with the phone. So why normal phone usage need to be terrible because headset users want to stick with speaker mode?