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Old 06-22-2009, 06:25 PM
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Re: Fustrated with the Diamond

I have similar issues with the Sprint Diamond, currently on Mighty ROM 4.x...
I am an 18+mos user of the Sprint Touch, on the Sprint 6.1 ROM. I find it to be great, VERY stable, very responsive, etc, etc -- very few flaws.

But the Diamond screen is compelling. So I bought one to play with. Here are some problems I find relative to my Touch/Vogue:

- Screen sensitivity is very NON-homogenous, not uniform. Particularly at the edges of the screen, it is difficult to get a response from the device. Adjusting the overall screen sensitivity doesn't help -- its a UNIFORMITY issue. The Touch doesn't have this problem and is therefore alot easier to interact with (since many of the critical buttons are at the screen edge, like the X/closer and the scrolling bars, and the top icons). This is probably my number ONE issue preventing me from moving from the Touch to the Diamond for real...

- D-pad, the Diamond D-pad is just plain sh*ttier, especially when trying to hit the UP and DOWN parts.

- The FM radio is so insensitive as to be almost useless. A dollar store FM radio works better...

- There are non-polished parts of the software which add up to being just not as nice as the Touch. I realize these are probably ROM issues and would love to know of a better ROM. The device does freeze from time to time. The fonts are not always what they should be, e.g. within Opera, the fonts are TOO LARGE, even though they are set to "small". I don't like the top icons as much. The roaming support is confusing. No camera hardware button is too bad.

That's enough for now... there are things I like of course, mainly the screen and the Wifi.

Pointers to better ROMs welcome. Anybody think the official Sprint 6.1 ROM update to be better than MightyRom 4.x ?
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