[HTC Inspire 4G] PMad:
My Take on v4

Here's my take on the gingerbread rom running on the HTC Inspire 4G on AT&T (US)

I went from stock inspire (never rooted this specific phone before), straight to gingerbread. The rooting process was a complete pain in the ass for me. Tried the simple root from the inspire forums and could not get my phone rooted on 2 different PC's, tried a 3rd after 4 days and it went through perfectly. Only issue was when booting to clockwork, it would show the white HTC screen, and fade out like an old game boy would fade out. You would see lines of pixels fade out separately, but after everything faded out, nothing would come up on the screen. I ended up having to use Rom Manager to install CoreDroid, it rebooted into clockwork and automatically installed. I could not see the installation process at all until the blue boot animation. After some app installations and a day of use, i could finally see Clockwork when booting into recovery. I used Rom Manager to upgrade my Clockwork to 3.0.0.6, what was installed with the root and with 3.0.0.6, i had the problem with not being able to see Clockwork when booting into it until a day of use with several installed apps. Booting into recovery now requires using RomManager, holding volume down while turning the phone on no longer works. I dont know if this is a bug, or if the recovery feature has been removed.

Speed

Stock inspire running Quadrant gave me scores around 1600-1800. CoreDroid 4 gives me 1100-1300. I've noticed a lot of slow downs and lags, there's been a couple times ive had to do a battery pull because things were running so slow for so long i literally could not do anything at all.

Battery Life

So far, battery life with gingerbread is better than anything ive ever seen! I've gone 2 full days on 1 charge. Medium use of the phone on day 1, and normal texts and calls on day 2. The power saving mode works great on gingerbread! Infact, its day 3 right now and my battery is at 8%

App Compatibility

So far not too bad. Personally i can not stand the HTC Sense dock. It looks nice, but its not customizable. Because of this, I use LauncherPro, also becuase LP comes with widgets that are a must have for me. The 3D app draw on LP does not work. It loads up and shows the 3D app drawer, but when scrolling, it jumps around violently, but almost always ends up back at the top. Turning off the "experimental" 3D app drawer works just fine. Gingerbread uses some new methods on zip file updates. Most updates need to be specifically made for gingerbread. Also, on page one of this thread, there's links to market themes, and no.. they dont work either because of the zip formatting... Handcent SMS has one problem, when selecting a picture or video out of the gallery, and choosing to send it via Handcent SMS, no contacts load up.

Audio Quality

I havent flashed any radio images to CoreDroid, but its definitely louder then stock, but its kinda crackly. Its not bad, just the sound quality isnt "smooth".

Requests

If you've ever seen the Twingerbread rom for the Captivate, i think some of those features should be implemented into CoreDroid. For example, the window animations. A window never just appears or disappears from the screen, it smoothly floats on to the screen from the bottom. Typically, the window is crooked and small as it appears from the bottom of the screen, and turns and sizes properly as it comes up. Obviously its fast and fluid but looks amazing! Also, the addition of more power options. Currenly we have Power Off, Airplane Mode, and Restart. Adding other options such as Recovery mode would be awesome!