[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] rpmccormick:
I came from GOv2 to 3.8 last night. I'm going to stick with it. For me it is WAY faster then GOv2. When I click on Dolphin mini, it comes up INSTANTLY! In GOv2 it would always take 2-3 seconds to load. Loading webpages seems slightly faster as well. This may be due to JIT. Did GOv2 enable JIT in the build.prop?

I did have a recent supercharger v6 or whatever on top of GOv2 as well, which made some speed improvment, but very little compared to moving to this ROM 1.8. Does this ROM have the supercharger thing built in?

I use ADW.Launcher (free) with the BlackGlass theme, set to 5x5 with stretched widgets, and a 5-column app drawer that scrolls up/down. This is how I like it and is free. I'm not sure if the page-scrolling build.prop mods affect it or not, but it works smooth as silk for me.

BUGS: It did random-reboot on 3 different occasions during my 2-hours of configuration (restoring from Ti, or SMS Backup+, or running all of my >50 apps once and making sure they were all setup correctly). It has seems stable with normal use. GOv2 used to lockup/reboot sometimes too, usually when using Nav. As long as this happens less then weekly when using the phone normally, I will keep this ROM and not go back to GOv2.

The things I miss from GOv2 are:

1) Battery %

2) Power-Control Widget is normal gray instead of transparent-black.

3) News&Weather App/Widget is completely missing (and should be trans-black)

I like the power-control in the drop-down much better then GOv2, but it could be even better if it was trans-black instead of normal gray background.

It would also be cool if the settings menu had colored icons.

The only thing else I can say is that the battery seemed to die quick even though I flashed on a full-charge and erased batt-stats too. I expect this to work itself out though through use or possibly re-calibrating (I doubt this ROM is not a batt killer, hopefully).

THANKS A TON for giving the only phone I like some ROM love!

(5-row sliders /w hard-keys for back/menu/home are practically extinct, and after experimenting with MANY phones for a month each, I've found these are "killer-features" for me that I do not want to give up!)

---------- Post added at 12:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:03 PM ----------

I spoke too soon:

1) The lock-screen setting does not stick. I like to drag the lock screen up instead of down to launch exDialer. Everytime I drag up, it takes me to the config, where I set it to run exDialer next time, but it never works.

UPDATE: Fixed after running fix permissions.

2) The phone doesn't work! When I call someone it dials them, then does it's crash-vibration, then I see "phone" has FCed and when I click to close my call is dropped and my antenna re-initializes (no signal at first, then finds one)

This persists after fixing permissions and re-flashing the blaze modem. The blaze modem worked fine with GOv2. I have tried dialing both with and without GoogleVoice.

Guess I need to restore to GOv2 until the phone is working. I will backup first so I can debug with you later if you will help me. EDIT: I guess it works if I don't hit the FC button. I don't think I can live with that though. As soon as my cheek hits the big FC button in the middle, the call is dropped and antenna reboots. EDIT2: I also tried wiping Dalvik-Cache to no avail.