[jmorton10]

OK. I did a bunch of testing last night, I ran out of time but I got some really surprising results.

I got the new TP yesterday & immediately unlocked it (as soon as I made sure it worked). As I've stated, I have both SPB BU & Sprite. After using both in the past, I always preferred SPB & lately I didn't even have Sprite installed. Since I wanted to test both however, I downloaded & installed the latest version of Sprite on my current LOADED TP. This was a newer version than I had used in the past.

I am a VZ customer & previous to this I used a couple xv6800's that I used to reflash constantly. I did this first to enable the GPS & later to speed them up & get around the low memory problems. I had SPB BU files that I would restore after a flash. These BU files where FULLY loaded with apps & SPB always restored them perfectly.

Now, I am running a Sprint TP that I flashed to the leaked VZ ROM & activated on VZ & it runs fantastic. The GPS & everything else works perfectly & it is very fast with virtually no TF3D lag etc etc

I like to make full all around use of my systems & I use GPS with a bunch of different apps/Sirius radio/Slingbox Mobile w-200 cable TV channels/SMS-Chat W-TouchPal/five different email accounts/ripped DVD movies to a 16 gig card/over 300 mp3 music files etc etc etc etc etc

I have every cool app & tweak I can think of & I'm not about to reinstall all this stuff after a ROM flash & that's why SPB has always worked so well for me.

Last night, I made BU files from my current TP 10 minutes apart from both SPB & Sprite so they should be virtually identical (I immediately noticed Sprite takes a LOT longer). I started flashing different ROM's to the brand new TP & then restoring the SPB BU file. I used the SPB file first because that is what I'm more familiar with & it has never failed me.

Much to my surprise, the restores did not work well AT ALL. SPB comes up in the "upgrade ROM" restore mode by default unless you have made no changes but the only significant changes you can make are to "overwrite all files" or not. I tried it both ways just out of curiosity. My current system has modified TF3D files (doesn't everybody??) & in NOT ONE of the SPB restores would TF3D run properly. TF3D was either all messed up, or got stuck in an endless "click here to load TF3D" loop & refused to load at all.

I couldn't believe it, I must have done 10 restores in a row & every single one failed in one way or another.

At that point, I was running short on time but decided to do one more for the night & flashed the phone to one of scott scrosler's ROM's & then tried out the Sprite BU. Sprite gives you more options to choose from on restore which is a little confusing so I read the help file (novel idea there). The help told me if it was a different physical device with a different ROM, on restore use merge option 2 so that's what I did.

I was amazed on the first boot this time. Not only did TF3D load just fine, except for one detail it looked absolutely perfect. I do not use the HTC task manager as I prefer Wisbar Adv3 & its cascading start menu + the million other options it has & I noticed WB wasn't running (it auto loads on startup). When I clicked in WB, I got a dll error so that needs to be reinstalled, but other than that I couldn't find a single thing that didn't work & work right.

That was the end of the testing last night, but back at it tonight. Stay tuned for more results.

~John