[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
couldn't stand it any more - I'm addicted to flashing new roms. last night I stayed up 5 hours (slept 3!! at work now!!) and flashed every major rom I could download to see what I was missing. AND that with what I considered a perfect install of 5.5 on my phone...

anyway, I didn't like any as much as 5.5

but 5.5 has it's issues (the bugs with that rom's basic core I suppose, 5.5 as a custom rom is better than any other from that rom's core).

So guess what? I did a clean install of 6 last night.

I'm on it now. So I'm ready for 6.1 when it comes out. for me the following happens:

facebook isn't remembering my password between reboots, pain in the butt (widget is empty).

facebook widget sporadically dies, as does another widget (3rd party, can't remember what it does since dead widgets won't tell you what they are, just say they died in their screen space until you reboot).

alarms may not be perfect yet but not sure about that, definitely more responsive than in 5.5 though (didn't turn off properly this AM but could have been my brain waking up after 3 hours too LoL - silenced it but snoozed it too unintentionally, then snooze couldn't be disabled - kept going into snooze mode every 10 minutes but countdown timer didn't show anything and had to turn off that alarm to reset snooze state (re-enabling it again set it for tomorrow morning as it should).

the keyboard update as noted before installed but didn't do anything at first. finally DID do something but most of the time it's settings disappear and it's settings panels disappear again (goes back to stock) after running a while. or something like that. can live with that, have a zillion other keyboards to try out when I get time.

you know the other bugs and things missing I think.

apps2sd works awesomely just as in 5.5. I really wish that I could install huge games like those big 15mb games I have lying around here- won't work on hero but you know, they should since my hero is 2.1 and 691 mHz.

by the way, noticed that to get it to run at 710 mHz the widget has to be set to 710400 or something like that, don't recall exact number. and that value isn't discovered by widget as user setting etc, so I suppose I'll have to root/edit the file to get it to work. I'm basing my (no doubt already known) discovery on the default settings in oc widget actually working at 710 and showing a setting of 710400 or whatever it was, then after setting up advance it only runs up to 691000 when max is set to 710000.

anyway, I really do like this rom. hope it ends up being awesome over the long run.

********** I do think that villainrom should be about bringing us the best, not something as close to stock as possible. I understand the concept, but hell, 5.5 had better features, whether it was by fluke or intentionally. Hopefully for those of us that appreciate the stability, effort, etc of the villain team there will at least be optional upgrades/mods we can install either from the forum as update.zips or as optional OTA things so we can get better features than the official release 2.1.

That's honestly the best part about this site - doing something other people can't do with stock phones. :-)

but I'm most happy just to have 2.1 progressing so well on my hero.

cheers