Hey, doogald... read that thread and after installing xtrSense, I'm tempted to try GSB 2.7 on my wife's phone. How stable are you finding it? Obviously xtr is rock solid, but I've put CM7 on an incredible I bought off of Craigslist and I'm seriously digging it. I miss a few of the sense widgets, but CM7 is really slick.
Also, how much faster would you say GSB 2.7 is over xtrSense overall (not just SD but in all areas)
I think it's very stable. There are only a few things that don't "work" that I know of, but most have workarounds.
They are:
- if you do a handsfree or speakerphone call and the screen times out, you cannot get the display to turn back on by trying the proximity sensor (i.e., bring to your face, then take away.) If you press the Send key, it's like pressing flash and assumes that you want to do something like add a third caller, and pressing end will hang up the call. Apparently there is a setting somewhere to allow wake on pressing trackball, but that never works for me. However, you can hold VolUp while pressing Send and it will turn the screen back on without affecting the call.
- if you dial *228 to activate or update the roaming list, there is no touchscreen control to bring up the dial pad to press 1 or 2. However, you can long-press menu to bring up the keyboard, switch to numeric input, and press 1 or 2 from there.
- this one is esoteric, but you cannot do special phone programming by dialing ##PST. I keep xtrROM on the phone in the off-chance I want to do that. I've done that once since I flashed a Froyo/GB ROM, though.
Otherwise, I am not sure that GSB is any faster. It may be that occasionally things seem faster, due to some optimized apps and code in Gingerbread, but it is barely noticeable. The exception is that (at least for me) when I run xtrSENSE for a long period of time without restarting, it tends to slow down. Touch controls like scrolling within apps can feel sluggish, even to the point that apps mistake a swipe for a touch and open something that I don't want opened. Restarting tends to help with that.
Well, after all my talk about making this a hobby - I just installed 2.7. It's very nice, *BUT*...
After the install, GAPPS, then reboot, then LauncherPro restore. Efficient and quick, so far. I then had to re-install a bunch of apps and icons. Is there a way to get past that last set of steps?
I assume that this is the google apps that are looking for updates, as well as (perhaps) ROM Manager. Unfortunately, it will take Workshed to deliver the latest ROM Manager in the ROM, and for the CyanogenMod team to deliver an updated Google apps package.
I'm still on 2.5 (switched to that from Aloysius Snow about a week ago) and overall am loving it, but as someone else mentioned, I am definitely noticing a drop in battery performance. On Aloysius, I could sometimes go a day and a half without charging, but now (same usage) I am more often than not getting the "plug in your charger" notification by dinnertime. Any ideas on how to improve this? (Will jumping to 2.7 help?) Thanks in advance...
Since you are running a completely different Linux kernel and Android version with GSB compared with Aloysius, you may want to charge up to 100% and then restart in Recovery, go to the Wipe menu, and wipe battery stats. See if that helps.
flashing now 
