Doing our part, compiling 3.16 standard Bug List

It seems to me that this new ROM was almost certainly leaked with the knowledge of some/all Sprint or HTC employee Mogul developers in response to our pleas for public beta testing. Maybe it was too complicated to create an official program, with potential legal issues and such, so they just leaked a ROM to test the issues.

Since we asked for this, I think we should do our part. So far, it seems like we have made a less clear effort to do that than with the aborted ~2.16 release. Within a day of that release there were neat concise summary threads with issues listed that were agreed upon by large portions of the community. That might have helped Sprint decide to remove that release, know where to start fixing it, and consider a beta program.

However, I am not sure that the same results are appearing this time. The main discussion seems to be a 40 page thread with infinite conflicting claims of what is and is not working. Already, many users are making different custom versions of the release with different radios and applying other hacks. It might be difficult for anyone to make any sense of all of this, especially if the vast majority of users end up with hacked versions and arent testings what we were probably given to test.

At the moment, I cannot test the new ROM. However, I just wanted to get the point across. If anyone has time and likes getting these leaked ROMs, they should probably try to help document and concisely list the problems. If anyone does not like getting these leaked roms they should probably install the most unique possible hacked version of the ROM, install as many 3rd party apps as possible, remove some of the standard sprint software without being sure what it is, post every problem they encounter once as a new problem with the ROM, and contact Sprint tech support about it.

I don't know if I should be the one to say all this, but I could not find anyone else saying it. I think if we are doing beta testing in some sense, we need to try to stick closer to testing the standard package we are given.

- Marc