Sadly went back to manila 2.1 yesterday
... here's why...
As you know i use "phone keypad" for all my typing/texting needs since that's what i'm used to, it's much faster for me w/xT9, and the "thumbprint" for each press is bigger. I can get the phonepad up and running with the reg that pops it up and lets you select it, but when texting it intermittently gives me numbers rather than ABC, or xT9 mode. This only seems to happen while in HTC Messaging so I'm sure it's an issue with it... AGAIN. But I text so much that it is a deal breaker for me and taking out HTC Messaging breaks other stuff in the fav ppl tab as well and I start losing much of the neat stuff about 2.5.
Hopefully as they continue to work on the port this will go away or we get a version of ezinput 2.1+ that is fully functional so I can come back!
hmmm, there's a thought i guess... could try like a 1.5 version of ezinput (although not nearly as good or functional in many ways) and see if it plays nice with HTC Messaging