[Droid Incredible Android Development] EnixLHQ:
I want to take a moment and sing the praises of this rom. Go ahead and skip this if you're not interested, as there won't be any real data or issues/fixes in this post. This is just a letter of appreciation.

As been often said, different roms will have different effects on different phones, and for me this has definitely been true.

Coming from the stock rom, the reboots were getting to me. I came from two broken DROIDs (both had bad processors) I hoped that the Incredible was going to amaze me. Well, it did. It was fast, sleek, powerful, and would occasionally delight me with showing me the boot animation out of seemingly nowhere. Since this was stock, I was appalled. Even more horrible was that any of the fixes I found online never helped and in most cases made it worse. But, as a tech, I never let my toys lie untouched.

I first tried Cyanogen. That was the rom that breathed life in to my aging and sick DROID. On that phone, it was a godsend, giving me back some usefulness I was losing by the week, and keeping me a bit more speedy than the stock ever did. For the Incredible, however, I noticed lag almost immediately and overclocking did nothing to help. I tried all the kernels they suggested in the forums, and even others I happened across, and would only experience a little joy until the next inevitable reboot.

Then I tried UltimateDroid. The only reason I even considered this one (aside from the slick black feel to it) was the fact that Cyanogen publicly denounced UD for stealing their code. Even bad publicity is good publicity and I started to think that maybe since Cyanogen did so well for me on the DROID, all it needed was some polish for the Incredible and, just maybe, UD had done just that. Well, no such luck. The reboots were just as frequent. And, just because I can nit-pick, I couldn't stand the fact the 3g and 2g icons were shaded differently (call me a perfectionist).

Then I ran through the rest of the gambit: Virtuous, Redemption Rom, IncRom, and I couple others I long since forgot the names of. All very nice in their own rights, but all just as flawed as what I had started to believe was a hardware issue. A very bad, very bleak hardware issue.

The rebooting just wouldn't stop. I couldn't predict it with any accuracy, save for playing music and navigating at the same time. I was so frustrated, so angry. I wanted to take my phone back, and even tried only to be told I'd get another Incredible. I was, literally, a breath away from any Android phone until their next season. But then, out of the corner of my eye, I see something: Another Incredible, resting neatly on someone's desk showing off the SkyRaider bootloader. So, I come over, politely acknowledge their phone, and ever so wistfully ask, "does it reboot? You know, on it's own?" The answer, unbelievably to me, was "never".

Now, I'm not one to get my hopes up when all the evidence around me suggests it's a waste. I'm not pessimistic, but I am a realist. Why would THIS rom help me any more than ANY of the roms that came before it?

Still, I leave no toy untouched, especially if I'm trying to fix it.

And so I tried SkyRaider 3.3.3.

It's been a solid month now, I think. A full month that I've had your rom and a full month that the only time my phone has rebooted was when *I* wanted it to. Not to mention that the features it delivers are awesome as well. The recent apps list in the pulldown, once I got used to it, has been a constant companion. The reboot menu is perfect for twiddling with other roms or just playing around. And keeping to the Sense UI, at least for those of us who want it, made me fall in love with the theme all over again.

And just to prove to myself that the rebooting thing is not a fluke, I tried Cyanogen again later. Welcome back reboots. Went back to SkyRaider, hello stability.

I guess what I am trying to say is thanks. Just...thanks.

You'll be getting a donation from me very soon.