[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ValyRebelz:
had to weigh in

ok, I read this post cover to cover, and thought I should add something. If this gets wordy I'll apoligize in advance, but when I form an opinion its usually a very precise one. This is my first post(love the video, btw. freakin hilarious!), although I've read this site every night for the past 2 months. Just bought my first smartphone not to long ago, an OG Droid(dirt cheep, I might add) and after a few weeks of very heavy reading I rooted, removed bloat, and over/under-clocked 125-1000 mhz, 72 vsel, and 30000 sampling rate, with 95 up thresh-hold. Stock ROM and all. It was like ripping the four-cylinder out of a Pinto and slappin a V8 in there!

Thanks to all who posted detailed information about rooting, settings and how to know what settings to change, and why. Very informative, thanks a heap.

Now with that outa the way...

On to the Google Play Store...(god, that name sounds hideously childish)

I got the update, and all seemed well. Market and play store acted the same, although I did have to go back into Gemini Manager and adjust the auto-run settings again so the bastard wouldn't run in my background. I expected this, so no worries. Some of you on nice fast high ram phones might not have this problem(and if I had a few more benjamins to throw around I wouldn't either), but the OG Droid doesn't like to run the market in the background without shutting down SetCPU, or my antivirus. Really, I'd much rather it shut down the store and leave my vital functions, but the store has a higher priority, which doesn't make the first bit of sense.

Also, I started to notice that GO-Launcher doesn't recognize the new apps that run in the background like the store and google music, almost as if they are trying to make them "task killer-proof". Seems pretty sneaky in my lay-man's opinion. Used to be, if I wanted to play a game and keep SetCPU and antivirus going, I'd go into my drawer and kill anything non-essential, leaving the stuff I wanted running, and not giving the system the chance to decide what processes were more important. Now I have to go into my settings to do that. Oh, and they don't show on my "running" slot, have to search one at a time through the "all apps" slot and pick out the ones I think are running. It's that or get another task-killer, and that's one more app cluttering up my system. I suppose I'll have to set up Gemini to batch kill everything but the apps I want running...then kill Gemini in the drawer. *sigh* This used to be easy.

Seriously? I don't wana seem like a whiner, but doesn't anyone else see google goin rogue on us? Force feeding me peas and religion as a kid made me hate them even more, and this feels the same. So after an hour setting my phone back to the way *I* wanted it, editing auto-run settings, cussing google the whole time, now these 2 "super apps" still don't shut off when I want them to, but at least they don't pop up at random times and make my antivirus stop working.

So I have started using the Amazon app store as much as possible, because at least they are UPFRONT about the sleazy and shady things they do. I can handle that. Google is a virus on my phone, as far as I'm concerned, and not asking my permission to change crap on my phone just made me believe this even more. "Take it or leave it" seems to be their attitude, and I think I'm very close to leavin it. Luckily there seem to be alternatives either in development or out already.

Good luck google. With competition coming in from all sides for a piece of your pie, your gona need it! That or an attitude re-adjustment toward your users, not your stockholders.

V.

Valyrebelz@yahoo.com

(This is my junk-mail account, so if I don't get back to you soon, realize I WILL get back to you)

P.S. I'm gonna miss the little green droid, and I had just grown to love the little guy!