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okay, so i got this new rom installed, mostly because of GPS, and I mean, I know what I'm doing so it wasn't difficult at all.
during the install, i froze once, at 11%, saw the tricolor screen, but then it automatically restarted, and finished installing. First Boot took FOREVER, and then i let the sprint customizations run. afterwards, i installed all my programs, and settings, and all that good stuff, and it worked fairly well. IMO, it's definitely slower than 2.17, but i've been reading that a Hard Reset after the initial customization run would help that, so I may try it later.
I do NOT live in a EvDo area (stupid blacksburg), so i only have 1X available, and it works pretty well. my signal seems to be good, and my bluetooth works FANTASTIC. my cousin who has the same phone didnt know i was on bluetooth, and when i told him, he was really surprised and didnt think i was on bluetooth, so that was great.
unfortunately, gps is a different story. i have been trying several times to get it to work, and so far, it has only locked onto the satellites once. now, this is from me sitting in my dorm, (albeit by the window), but it did get a lock on upto 4 satellites. however, the ram usage took a significant hit (after only 2 hours of working, i was down to 15MB) and my battery life was also sucking, so i restarted the phone, and since then I cannot get another lock on the GPS. I'm not sure if it's just some settings, but neither Live Search, nor Google Maps, will get a lock. so, this is getting slightly annoying that my GPS is so weird. I also tried going outside, but after about 10 minutes, i still could not get a lock.
My touchscreen also was really unresponsive/slow for a while, so i had to soft reset, and that fixed that, i'm not sure if it's the rom, b/c i've had some similar experiences with other roms, but those are the only issues I've had with it.
If anyone has some idea onto why the GPS isn't getting a lock, please explain.
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