[Legend General] dahwe:
Last night I moved from Beta0+Link2SD to Beta1+Data2Ext (Ext4).

I was very content with Beta0, very stable and smooth, though many options in settings menu were not yet implemented. I found Launcherpro to be much smoother than Trebuchet, so I sticked with LP.

This worked for me to update to Beta1, without losing data:

- Make Titanium backup in Beta0 (user apps+data and the green lit system data, like SMS/user's dictionary/contact/accounts/wifi password/etc databases)

- Make full nandroid in CWM

- Wipe Data/Factory reset in CWM. This clears the data, cache and sd-ext partition.

(- Here I reformatted my SD-ext from EXT3 to EXT4, using Minitool in Windows)

- Now format the system partition.

- Install ROM

- Install ICS GAPPS

- Reboot. let it take its time, but if this first boot time exceeds 10 minutes: remove battery and retry. Let it settle in for a while to finish the background processes.

- Reboot back to Recovery and flash the corresponding Data2Ext script (I used Ext4, which is somewhat safer than Ext2)

- Reboot back to normal mode.

- Open Terminal Emulator: type "su" (without the quotes), hit ENTER, grant su permissions in the upcoming pop-up. The type "data2ext --enable", hit ENTER and you're done.

- Reboot

- Restore your backups with Titanium Backup. You may have to download it in the Play Store.

Okay, my findings:

- I love the new possibilities and settings. The more there is to configure and to play with, the better :D

- Overall smoothness seemed to be better on Beta0, unfortunately, except for the Trebuchet launcher which scrolls silky smooth now. LauncherPro definitely suffers from hickups now and then, especially in the app drawer (was by far the smoothest on Beta0) and seems to reload more often. Trebuchet did get much smoother, but somehow I don't like that launcher. (Vertical scrolling ftw)

- No more FCs in Contact app when editing a complex merged contact.

- Tapping Cyanogenmod Wallpapers gives me a FC.

- Email widget gives FC when there is no account configured yet. -> infinite launcher reload loop.

- Camera option menu is still slow and FCs sometimes when I try to change mode.

- Camera preview resolution still seems to be not as crisp as I was used to on other ROMs. It gives the feeling that the autofocus is not doing its job properly, but pictures end up sharp :)

- Camcorder saves files with plausible file sizes, but, as already mentioned by others, I can't find a way to play these vids.

- Could not acquire GPS lock so far. When checking out the GPS Toolbox app to see what's going on, the device became unresponsive after a couple of minutes and eventually (hot) rebooted.

- Had the "System process is not responding" wait/close? for about 5-6 times so far. (translated from dutch)

- Signal indicator and data counter are working perfectly now, thanks.

Quadrant Standard score of the new Beta1 setup was somewhere between 820-850 I believe, which is a bit disappointing. Will test again this afternoon and do some more benching.

I am very happy with this Beta1, once you know where things could go possibly wrong, this is a very pleasing ROM, thanks Zeubea ;p

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I use HaxSync as Friendcaster fails to add high resolution contact pictures. Worked perfectly, costs a few cents though