Why a Froyo port?

edufur · #1 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 04:22 PM

Pardon me if I sound noobish... but why would anyone want to throw a ported Froyo onto a EVO when they are going to release an official one for it within weeks of getting the phone? Is it worth adding the bugs of a port when you could just wait a little bit for the new official version?

newone757 · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 04:26 PM

you never know when the official version is coming. Sure they put a time period on it, but look how well they stuck to that with the Hero update they promised. It could take forever.

brnail · #3 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 04:49 PM

Additionally, you never know what they will delete or modify (like the tethering) and what bloatware they will add.

**p-slim** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 05:01 PM

Besides the fact that sense is cooked in, if you build a rom from aosp that is not a half ass port over, its a stock rom just not from HTC, HTC has to build the rom from source also then incorporate sense also. Now if you're using the stock rom to build a rom, now that's a different story and depending on what features aren't working, you can decide if its worth it or not

WisdomWolfX · #5 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by edufur

Pardon me if I sound noobish... but why would anyone want to throw a ported Froyo onto a EVO when they are going to release an official one for it within weeks of getting the phone? Is it worth adding the bugs of a port when you could just wait a little bit for the new official version?

Have you seen how long Sprint takes to release updates? They released the TP2 6.5 update MONTHS after the competition. In fact, I'd already given up on my TP2 and WM in general (after several devices) by the time they updated it.

**themuffinman** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by edufur

Pardon me if I sound noobish... but why would anyone want to throw a ported Froyo onto a EVO when they are going to release an official one for it within weeks of getting the phone? Is it worth adding the bugs of a port when you could just wait a little bit for the new official version?

No different than our winmo phones and the fact that most of us on here love to flash the latest and greatest being that the carriers move so slow, besides its fun. Now for me personally, I wont be flashing any time soon since I don't know jack about android. So I will take the next few weeks getting use to 2.1 before I go venturing off into the unknown.

**TheBundo** · #7 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 07:18 PM

There is one difference with this situation and the WinMo situation - in WinMo, we were always running a buggy system, and hoping against hope that the update would solve our problems. This OS is stable as it is, so the sense of urgency to update recedes as you use the phone - it works pretty darn good as is.