[Touch HD Android Development] hrk7474:
Clean install on formatted SD

Since this turned out to be a rather lengthy post, there's a conclusion at the bottom of it. And if all your interested in is camera performance that's where to go... ;)

FRX04 bundle with FRX05 system.ext2 and 20110228 kernel on a freshly formatted SD.

(and with old startup.txt: OC, waiting for SD fix, initrd_offset, sleepmode 3)

First boot:

Get's to home screen. Started removing widgets, and at the last one (search bar) the phone froze.

Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.

Second boot:

Boots fine until lock screen. When unlocking phone it had removed all home screen widgets.

Went to APN settings to remove the defaults loaded from SIM which are wrong, but phone froze as soon as i touched the menu button inside APN properties.

Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.

Third boot:

This time without SIM since the problem with the second boot so closely resembled the freeze of the froyo x red first boots issue.

Boots into lock screen. Straight to APN settings. No freeze ;)

On to Wifi settings. Setup and connected in no time at all!

Setup Gmail account. Synchronized without problems.

Went through most other settings without any problems. Happy to see the time-zone issue is now fixed :)

Read some email. Wifi is working great, just like before. Wanted to play some music but realized there were no mp3's on the sd... :rolleyes:

Oh well, time to put in the SIM. Phone shut down 'as designed'.

Fourth boot:

With SIM, also put some apps to install in designated folder (including ZEAM) and some mp3's in a separate folder.

Boots into lock screen. Unlocked and set ZEAM as default launcher. Loads fine. Very responsive and fluid. (i turn all animation OFF)

Played some music: stutters unbearably...

Disabled Wifi, opened an email to connect 3G. Message opens, but (probably) prefetched because there's no 3G icon in the notification bar.

...Freeze... :mad:

Waited for a few minutes, then pulled battery.

Maybe i hadn't switched on 3G in WinMo before this boot, don't remember or know if it's still needed. Turned it on just in case before the

Fifth boot:

Just to see if audio is ok without Wifi. (i had this with some other kernel, don't remember which one, really should start keeping those logs)

While watching the androids fly through the boot animation it hit me: i never put the dot next to the APN after inserting the SIM again... :o

Freezes after i pull down notifications...

No waiting this time.

No changes, just a

Sixth boot:

Starting to lose confidence in this endeavour... :cool:

Boots fine, unlocks fine. Into settings, and freeze...

Lucky number 7 or tie-breaker?

Removed the OC from startup.txt, even though it's 'only' at 600Mhz and never gave me problems with other builds.

Boots fine, unlocks fine. Into settings to find the default APNs are back alongside the one i put there myself and the dot next to the wrong one.

Put the dot where it should be, deleted first excess APN, deleted second excess APN and freeze...

One more time...

YES! The 3G icon is there.

BUT! Still stuttering the audio.

Check out the camera though before swapping kernels: it loads.

After taking one picture i get an all black viewfinder. Phone's not frozen because it vibrates when pushing the virtual buttons. Back button does nothing, but it let's me turn off the screen and back on again to find the lock screen. Camera not running anymore according to task killer. Try again...

Now it let's me take pictures. AND record video, with sound. The first picture i tried to take is not in the Gallery.

Conclusion:

Although it took me 8 boots to finally have this FRX05 system.ext2 running, it runs very well once it does. Praise for implementation of the camera in the last kernel, pics and video with sound, hooray! :)

But because of the audio, this kernel is not for me.

I'll try once to get it running with the 1255 kernel and otherwise it's back to GBX0A for me.