[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SidekickColor:
I love GOv2 but wasn't ready to wipe my phone when GOv3 came out... seems a shame that this has lost a lot of momentum (since GOv2 was so awesome... I loved the icons and adjusting the brightness on the notification bar...). I saw this thread was was so excited to have a new GO to play with, but then I kept reading lol (isn't that always the way?)

I think the biggest issues with the phone come down to a few things... 1) 512MB of RAM in really insufficient (manufacturer oversight), especially with all the bloat carriers/manufacturers like to add (carrier/manufacturer stupidity); 2) the Jump menu causes conflicts and was never coded properly (manufacturer not having any fokks to give); 3) it is hard to quit a program as once opened (Google programming oversight), they like to just 'hang out' in the background until there's insufficient memory to run the new thing you opened and the whole think freezes due to not knowing how to manage the resources... which is funny because my SK's would load webpages in the background while I played in other apps and always monitored AIM, Y!, MSN, email, sms, network messages and they didn't lock up... so it is totally possible to do these things with smaller operating "budgets" in terms of memory and space... but when you've got an open platform, you have the downside of not being able to make sure all programs carry uniform coding but then you get the innovation that comes from having a larger group of people working on the same problem... :/

As lately my SK4G has been crashing so hard it just plays the boot animation for 15-20 minutes, I got an LG L9 but I'm still keeping the SK4G around as a spare. (I'm selling the other one though because I really don't need 2 spare SK4G's lol)

Anyway, if anyone is interested in making a little extra scratch...

I would be interested in someone quoting me a fee to have an icon pack from GO setup (GOv2 specifically, if the themeing changed in later variants). I use Holo Launcher and believe that Go Launcher icon packs are supported (and possibly others ?) but I don't have the time/patience to dig about in the framework-res.apk and do this myself plus I figure one of you guys could just make a stand-alone theme easier than I could.

I'm also really missing the whole "slide along the notification bar to adjust the screen brightness" thing but I guess not all phones could be perfect ;oD If someone figures out a way to put 1GB of RAM in the SK4G and maybe a dual-core processor (and reaching for the stars but also a roller trackball? lol) I would happily go back to my SK4G full-time... (seriously the best keyboard proportion) but for now I'm enjoying some of the similarities the L9 has and some of the things that are freaking fixed now that I'm on a different version/UI. Some [additional] places where Android/Samsung failed to deliver the SK's goods included the poor dialer UI (which never shows you which number for Bob you are calling - I called a few faxes using the SK4G, not pleasant), not having the screen come on with incoming texts (though the fact that you could "catch" the text on the notification bar and respond no matter what app you were currently in was a nice touch), and I'm generally surprised at the total lack of Google Task integration within Android period... or maybe I was the only crazy person using the task/checklist on the SK... lol, I'm willing to wear that shameful title. ;oD

P.S. If you still need it, I *think* I have KG2 deodexed stock (or at least a very-lightly modified ROM based on KG2) and I know I have KJ2 deodexed stock on my PC. I have a lot of archived things (because I realized that sources on the interwebs tend to get "lost" and didn't want to lose any of the resources so I indexed and saved everything in my "Sidekick Masterfile") ... I also have the original apps (including originals of the ones that later got updated so they didn't work well or they just worked "worse" such as GMaps before they removed the separate navigation volume and other random things like that) I don't think my apps are as sorted as I'd like (or as the rest of the resources I have), but it wouldn't take much for me to figure out what is what...