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Originally Posted by Juicy47
why was it a regression? care to explain? I know there are MMS and connection issues, which I said I would fix for R5.
Performance wise, R4 is better by far
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Well, because vibrate/ring was a regression as it didn't survive reset. Performance-wise, I disagree. R4 was MUCH more sluggish than R3, especially weather animation. Memory usage would slowly creep up and eventually you'd have to reset or run a memory scrubber program. Pocket IE in R3 was as quick as Opera 9.5. In R4, it was back to slow-motion. Twitter was extremely inconsistent in updates. Footprints didn't work. The phone kept trying to enter CDMA roaming mode for some odd reason every once in awhile. Upon every boot, #777 fails. Activesync would stop working randomly and only a reboot would bring it back. The profile and PRL update icons were missing, but the were missing in R3 as well. The phone seems to use UTC and then adjust the clock for the time-zone you were in, this is evident in Facebook and other apps that showed "Today" and "Yesterday." The flip-clock was schizo. Under dialup connections, "TELUS" and "CDMA1X" are there and have been since R1. Also, connection settings don't stick. Custom DNS settings and username/password revert immediately after finishing setting them up and resetting the data connection.
Also, R4 seemed to make the phone run much warmer and drain battery more quickly as a result. Not sure what that was about. It fixed itself after a few reboots.
Also, sliding sounds still weren't there. But that's not a regression.
Oh, and you use RapidShare. It takes around 25 minutes to download a ROM, sometimes even longer. I even gave you an un-metered FTP account on my site. It literally maxes out my connection and I tested the download time; under a minute. We're talking MegaBYTES per second.
But to each his own, I guess. I'll give R5 a go tonight and see if it's better. If not, no biggie. You've done great work so far and I really appreciate you putting forth the effort to develop a great ROM over the stock CDMA crap.