[Hero CDMA Android Development] strayduck:
First the compliments to nfinitefx45:

- Black sheep indeed; instead of simply telling people to "RTFM" (which would literally be thousands and thousands of xda-dev forum pages, most of which are drivel) he will actually answer the question or seek to fix the problem. Refreshing!

- Stock ROM is positively the way to go. As a matter of fact, this really should be *suggested* as the *starting* point for modders as it gives them a familiar interface to more easily see what has been improved (speed, etc.) and find things that might be genuinely broken so they can provide helpful reporting for fixes

What's more, many of us actually *use* a lot of the stock widgets/apps and it's such a PITA to have to go scrounging all over creation to find another power control widget, photo album widget, time+weather widget, music player that is integrated with the unlock screen, etc. etc. etc. I'm not even sure all of these *have* been recreated yet, at least not in a polished way.

- I use my phone all the way out to all the edges, meaning that I download *lots* of things and use all of them regularly. Once I *finally* got all the pieces in place this ROM seems pretty solid, which is GREAT because it means I get to keep using it!

- Love the boot screen. It's kind of hardcore and instantly speaks to the beast that one has unleashed by installing the NFX Hero ROM.

- Love the battery indicator. Even though it's not "stock", it is markedly better.

- The speed improvements are tangible and helpful. Was surprised to find that the speed boost from overclocking (710Mhz) and JIT was enough to make Raging Thunder 2 play smoothly. This speed has also made the camera usable again, which is HUGE. Really, having a fast phone just makes EVERYTHING better.

- As was warned: JIT was a train wreck when I first enabled it. Lots of random phone resets. After enabling apps2SD, though, it seems that JIT DOES work as I'm getting a score of 4.398MFLOPS on Linpack. Only one reboot about an hour into a Google Maps Navigation trip, which I presume was dalvik filling up or somesuch

- Love the iPhone-like animations going into programs and back to the home screen. I don't recall those on the stock ROM...

So all this to say THANK YOU. This is a truly great ROM and probably more work than people might appreciate (since it ends up looking so similar to their phone on day one)

Then the niggles:

- Camera trigger sound won't turn on for me

- wtf ear icon showing in global search. Not sure how to turn it off (see image)

- textfield highlight is stretched when flipping to landscape mode (see image)

- missing the sides of the menubar when removing things from home screens (see image)

- some of the buttons don't lock into their respective backgrounds as well as the stock version and are of a much lower quality (see image)

- Would be nice if the GScripts were already loaded. (also not a problem, just a convenience thing)

- I'm with some of the other commenters in that I'd rather not have new bloatware introduced after going through the work to get rid of Sprints' (eg: kigframe anetshare and road SMS) ;-). Not sure if I have a strong opinion about Root Booter, ES Explorer, Quick Boot and the like as I would presume that people already have something that does all these if they were able to Flash a custom ROM in the first place. That said, not everyone will have a backup of the apps to port back so I suppose it's wise to err on the side of caution there.

- Lastly on bloat: aNetShare seems redundant when you include Wireless Tether for Root Users

I can't post images yet so here are URLs for the screen shots with notes

hausinteractive.com/images/xda/wtf-ear.gif

hausinteractive.com/images/xda/textfield-highlight.gif

hausinteractive.com/images/xda/missing-sides.gif

hausinteractive.com/images/xda/hard-edges.gif

Question:

- What happens when the next update comes out? Can we download an update.zip or am I going to lose another weekend of my life re-flashing the entire ROM and changing all of my prefs again?

Cheers.