[Epic 4G Android Development] insanity213:
I'd like to address some of the issues people have been having. I'm no Android expert but I know my way around systems in general including the Linux kernel and hope I can add some insight. I've been flashing roms and drinking alot this week (especially drinking through the last 24 hours) so I apologize in advance if this turns into some worthless drunken rambling... Mods - feel free to delete this posting if it is of little or no value!

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With the exception of MS Exchange access I've beat up the Quantum ROMs pretty good and I've got to say it's pretty damn stable and fast enough for every day use. A few things to keep in mind are...

-None of the 2.2 ROM images are going to give you better battery life than the mature 2.1 ROM images and thats directly Kernel related. We don't have the 2.2 source, so if battery life is a deal breaker then go back to a modded 2.1 now. Even with diminished battery life I can still use 2.2 as a daily driver in my corporate environment. I have hellishly bad Sprint reception in my building and I can still make it through an 8-12 hour work day with over 100 emails coming in on several accounts, several phone calls on a BT headset, some texting, roaming from WAP to WAP on our campus, browsing garbage and blasting some metal into my brain via Winamp on max volume to drown out the sounds of a data center while I'm banging on routers. I've been coming home with about 25-30% of battery left.

-If you're unfamiliar with flashing devices in general (phones, embedded devices, routers, you name the device, etc...) you probably shouldn't be playing with beta images.

-And just for the record, only use the term "bricked" when your phone is beyond repair. If you can get into CW mod, download mode, use Odin, boot the OS to ANY degree it's not a brick and is salvageable. If you have a blank screen and can't do jack **** to your phone or see it with Odin or ADB, then it's a brick and you're pretty well screwed. I have yet to see a bricked Android (and I've done some pretty stupid stuff). It can happen, but pretty rare in my experiences. There are plenty of fail safe mechanisms in place to get your phone out of a bad place.

My process was pretty straight forward to achieve stability with this beta...

-Charge your battery 100%

-Use CW to factory default everything, wipe everything - dalvik cache, user data, apps, cache, your ass, blank the SD card, etc... Do it all 3x

-Flash stock DI18

-Boot up, go outside and get your GPS to lock. This method worked for me. Turn on GPS, open Google Maps, type in an address near your location and get directions to it. Google nav will kick in and GPS will lock. I don't care if its midnight and 12 degrees outside, wait till it locks good (I froze my ass off and you can too). Do not enable the wireless network location helper feature gimmick. That's just a cop out to a real GPS lock.

-Again, factory default/clear everything 3 times and install the 1.2 ROM in CW.

-After you boot the 1st time, let the phone sit for a minute or two then reboot. Theres alot going on behind the scenes on your 1st boot so be patient and cold boot it when it's done.

-After your second boot, get Google maps/Nav going again and get directions to somewhere again.

-Get your google account going, redownload your apps from the market or install the APKs from SD if you've got them. Do NOT restore data or apps from this or any other ROM. Holy Diver, Your Phone is CLEAN!

-Enjoy your frozen yogurt...

I can voice dial, use gps, browse, get email from Good for Enterprise, IMAP and Google accounts. YouTube and market work perfectly. I've watched movies, listened to hours of music, browsed news sitting on the can with terrible signal (middle of a huge building and metal walls around the can). I've read large XLS and Word dox, SSH'ed into routers, taken video of my kid, tons of camera use, the list goes on but I'm too drunk to remember.

I'm still on the DI18 modem code and GPS has been just fine for me all week. I had a worthless GPS on stock and modded 2.1 ROMs but no problems at all this week on 2.2 betas. The only functionality I've lost from rooted 2.1 custom roms is the 3rd party wireless tether (Again, a Kernel issue with netfilters and such...)

If you've got problems with FC's, lockups, blank screen on boot with random intervals of vibrations, battery lasting less than a work day, excessive lag, a dumb dog or a spouse that thinks your an asshole - its because you took a shortcut and didn't do something clean or installed a poorly written app and the app developer should be drug out into the street and shot.

The only noticable issue is the lock screen lag for a few seconds and it really doesn't matter much to me... as long as it's spread

If this doesn't make sense or I've offended you, I blame the black and tans and/or the Whiskey (not the cheap **** or blended ****, just the good single malt Scotch stuff!

Good luck

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