[Milestone XT720 Android Development] ronnbon:
The following is the post of the member 3-D, who is still not allowed to post here so he posted at the old thread and asked for help to bring his feedback at the right place...

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Cant post to the other thread, so adding some feedback here .. mods can maybe move some of these posts?

My wife and I both have XT720, I left her's with stock 2.1, mine I just upgraded to Dexter's 2.2.1 (1.1a release) so I was able to compare the two side-by-side.

I wanted to list some of the differences for people, almost all of these are trivial items but just so you know what you may or may not see:

Menu options missing in Settings are:

Wireless & Network Setings

- Control background data

Call Settings

- TTY mode

- Hearing aids

HDMI

- HDMI Format

Location & Security Settings

- My Location

- Use assisted GPS

- Compass

- Calibrate Compass

Applications

- Double tap home launch

Search

- Google search settings

- Searchable items

- Clear search shortcuts

Language & Keyboard Settings

- Enable cursor positioning

Text to Speech

- Listen to an example

- Install voice data

- Always use my settings

- Speech rate

- Language

Some of these may have been depreciated with 2.2 and may be why they are gone. Others not so sure, but all of very low priority in my opinion (except A-GPS and Compass).

* Assisted GPS is useful to lock onto GPS faster, this can also be downloaded with many apps in market. I use "GPS Status & Toolbox" by EclipSim which can also download the A-GPS data.

* Compass does not seem to work at all, always stays within a few degrees of the orientation it thinks it is in. As the menu settings were missing (per above) I have used alternate calibrate and compass functions also in the "GPS Status & Toolbox" app to test. Does not seem to change direction again, more than just a few degrees.

* Proximity sensor does not seem to work, cover it with finger and screen does not go black as expected. This is a problem when using the Phone with dialpad open as I usually manage to press buttons with my ear while talking. I think this proximity sensor issue is biggest problem left (for me).

* Noticed as well, when scrolling a list (like when in Settings menus) that the haptic/audible feedback when you hit the very top or bottom of a long list no longer happens in 2.2.

* Also an app note, when first trying to load Latitude in Google Maps app, it gives errors that it cant connect to your Google account and goes to the add account screen. If you cancel the add account screen, you will see an alert of a notification - this is asking to allow Latitude to access your Google Account. Once approved, Latitude worked fine.

* Noticed in About phone, kernel version says "a24124@zin22lnx05 #1" under where it says 2.6.29-omap1, what is this?

* The haptic feedback (vibrations) seems to be much lighter/fainter than in 2.1.

* Bottom 4 lights were stuck in Off until I used the Power Widget to change the screen brightness.

* No Phone or Messaging buttons next to app drawer on home screen.

* Camera mode - stitching, supposed to let you take 6 photos and stitch them together but when you try to take the second photo it just saves the first one only.

Again as I said, almost all of these observations are inconsequential - I just wanted to list them in one place for peoples comparison.

Oh, and Google Goggles works in 2.2, it never worked in 2.1 (always scanned as a blank green sceen).

Thanks Dexter for all your hard work in getting this far so quickly!

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