[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] cj chitwood:
My Experience Report

So last night I was running Bulletproof (Blue6ix) 1.1 and for the most part liked it. It was a fairly stock ROM with a few special bits. Still Sense, though.

I've been patiently waiting, biding my time, lurking in this forum. I've been watching, waiting for this ROM to mature to a daily-driver-like state, and I can say it definitely has. I have used it all day with almost zero problems, and the ones I had were from my not being accustomed to AOSP as well as having to adjust to the ICS interface versus GB.

I've got to say, it's nice. There are things I will miss about Bulletproof, but there are things I'm a little wavy about with CM9.

I have S-On Unlocked (htcdev) 1.45.0013, and CWM 5.0.2.7. I wiped the phone, cache, dalvik, and flashed the ROM in one recovery boot. In fastboot I flashed the kernel as found in the ROM zip file. I booted, set it up, and haven't had a major problem since. First boot worked great and I haven't rebooted since (only been a day though). I did have something that looked like a butterflies-and-unicorns version of a force-close, but I forget what it was and I haven't had anything flat out refuse to work at all.

For me, the things I've found to work include:

Face Unlock (if I hold the phone upside-down [because of the camera bug as mentioned in OP])

Rear Camera

Standard calls, Internet, Play Store, SMS, MMS, GPS (took less than a minute to lock on, inside my home, with network assist), general everyday stuff.

Gyro etc.

Keyboard lights and auto brightness do work as advertised

I've found the following not to work:

Outrageously long battery life. (it's comparable to my Bulletproof battery life which wasn't bad but won't last a full day with heavy use. Maybe with moderate, yes with light)

CAPS/ALT lights (known bug)

Front Camera is indeed upside down. We should all have a hangout for the fun of upside down camera and someone record it for posterity.

"Menu Unlock" is perpetually greyed out (as reported above) regardless of what other options are tried.

Didn't test anything else (no devices to use bluetooth etc. handy).

I have noticed on other ROMs/phones that the keyboard lights might not always come on if the light sensor detects light above a certain threshold. This would be (in my view) to save battery. I had my kb lights turn off on Bulletproof at times when I was in bed typing posts or e-mails because I moved the phone to where the bedside lamp would light it up. I tested this by moving into and out of shadow and could predictably make the KB light up or not.

I'm going to miss the Sense framework's camera, but that's the only part of Sense I'll miss. I'm not a fan of that launcher this came with and already have Go Launcher installed, but that's a personal choice and one of the things I love about Android.

So far, I think I already have a new DD.

Thanks Tbalden and Kornyone! Will watch for updates!

{EDIT!}

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My computer is royally ticking me off suddenly acting quite odd... which in and of itself is quite odd, considering it's running Debian.

I had more stuff to add. @Tbalden, you replied to someone in page nine (I run 50 posts per page, so not sure what that is for you) that the touchscreen needed a new atmel patch in the kernel. Would that patch (or lack of same) prevent an app from working in some parts of touch screen, but allow others? I have a problem similar to the triple town poster that X-Plane 9 isn't letting me control the plane or select different planes. But I can hit Menu and then the four buttons that pop up on screen work fine.

Also, I wanted to add (1) I'm on a stock battery and (2) I came straight from Bulletproof to Alpha Three. I did not have any intermediate steps.

Meant to add all that to the post originally but real life kicked in and I had to eat dinner and put the kid to bed. :)