[biodtl]

I have been running Android and playing with it for about a week and wanted to give some feedback. I have been using the 2/18 kernel with great success along with the GenY dual boot setup. Android runs for most of the day, and I reboot into windows overnight for my alarm clock, I don't trust Android to wake me up in the morning quite yet. I have not tried the more recent kernels with touch screen tweaks as I have been able to use it pretty effectively with a very light touch. Android market works well and most apps I have downloaded work fine. The auto sync with my google account is a dream compared to setting up (more like dealing with) WinMo/Exchange setups, and Blackberry syncs for other users.

There is only 1 big issue I have had so far. A handful of times in the past week I have pulled the phone out of my pocket, and not been able to get it to 'wake up'. Button presses respond with light and the backlight seems to come on, but the screen stays black. I have noticed that there is sometimes a delay of a few seconds when I press the end key and when the screen appears, but this is more than that, I have to pull the battery to solve this. The next time this happens, I will try to call the phone from a different device and see if it responds/rings. There have also been a few times where i've had to fight it to get the screen orientation to flip back to portrait from landscape, usually coming out of the market.

I am also a bit perplexed about the circular/dpad light behavior. I initially suspected it was just warning me about battery life, but now it is constantly lighting up, regardless of charge, motion, interaction. Right now, the phone is sitting on my desk with a full charge with a fresh boot, no new email, calendar events, or other notifications, and the dpad light is going through its normal cycle, which looks like the low battery notification.

In general, I am happy using this as a daily phone so far, many thanks to all involved in this project.