[Galaxy S I9000 General] yarod_g14:
My first day with the said official froyo xxjpm.

Hello all, I took the plunge yesterday and flashed the leaked xxjpm OVER the top of my official uk vodaphone firmware.

My experience has been much better than I expected and I thought that I had better share my thoughts with everyone.

First off, I had not flashed my gal s before outside of kies, the firmware I had was vodaphone branded , links, apps, boot up animation. Running well but laggy when I went over X apps.

I downloaded odin 1.3 and the xxjpm rom with an 803 .pit file and rather sheepishly attempted the flash.

It was a flawless proceedure, as the device allows me to enter the recovery mode it is apparently unbricakble so there is nothing to fear: I am sure that someone can tell me other wise if that is not true but I am now living in ignorant bliss thinking a brick is not very likely.

SO I flashed the PDA section of the ROM, I didn't install CSC - carrier specific stuff, nor did I flash a new radio, just the ROM bit (PDA) andb the .pit file, very quick and very simple.

The phone completed the proceedure, then rebooted without issue.

It booted back to the lock screen, and oh hello - my wallpaper was still there!

It took a while to do its boot, once complete, I found that all of the samsung widgets from touch wiz had gone but all my other links and widgets were still there. I looked at the home screen editor and samsung widgets are no longer available [oh no! Lol] All my programs were still there, all working and with my settings still.

All ny contatcs were there, email accounts and passwords, favorites everything - still there.

I then installed Chainfires super user for 2.2 and then the OCLF - one click lag fix just to top it all off. Again, flawless install. No problems.

I started to think, maybe this isn't froyo its the same, so /I opened the about screen - yup its froyo.

Opening the browser seemed much faster, I went to EVERY flash site I could. Find and revelled in flash 10.1 goodness, I have been watching movies from www.movie-forumz.tv - this really really works. I then thought aha! Flash mmo! So I went to the adventure quest website to try the setup, but my flash wouldn't let me use on screen keyboard properly.

At this point I remember that some one mentioned we would have full HID bluetooth keyboard mouse support. So I once again tried to pair my RAZER bluetooth mouse and my nokia SU8W bluetooth keyboard, this had always failed before. On 2.2 it works 100% My mouse pointer appeared and my keyboard works perfectly. WOW! So I setup advernture quest and spent an hour or so playing with that flash mmo :).

I then tried to pair my wiimote with a few different apps, but no luck :( still no wiimotes for us.

I spent all night playing with wifi connected and my keyb mouse attached messig about - by 12 midnight my battery was still at 50% which shocked me - initial impressions make me think that this is much better after 4-5 hours constant online use.

The device is much faster but this all be down to one click lag fix, I didn't do enough testing before I installed. Doh! What I would like to stress is that this was a totally flawless undisruptive upgrade for me. NO hassle just pure goodness.

After all that exitement, oh yes, quake (kwaak 3 arena free edition) I loaded the game and found that the mouse and WSAD work, the mouse is a bit funny as u have o hold down fire to look about, but this just needs the config adjusted which I will look into.

I am so happy with my keyb and mouse and flash tht it might be overshadowing my real experience but first days impressions.......everyone needs this ROM, its all nice yogurt, no nastiness.

Install process was easier than I could ask for. For all user waiting for Kies update. I can't see any reason not to flash :)