Tokenpoke
Android Expert
Hello.First post.
Another lurker unmasking themselves!
Got my Ascend a week ago and was completely ignorant about the capabilities of an Andriod phone. That is, until I ran across all the wonderful people here at Andriodforums! I started with z4root and Titanium Backup to streamline a bit and ended up taking the Icarus 1.1 plunge two days ago. It really is a fantastic thing! All praise to Isaacj87 for the wonderful ROM! Thanks to Jazz (and others?) for organizing the instructions so efficiently a noob like me could figure it out and to all those with who posted insightful questions, answers and suggestions. Everyone involved really did a tremendous job.
My experience:
Install went smooth as silk, just follow carefully the instructions. Had to do the mms fix cuz I'm MetroPCS, very simple and has worked perfectly, including picture mms. Wondered about apps2sd functioning properly but a memory check before and after installing an app, plus the great tools suggested by ʞunɟ024 above have confirmed that yes, it is.
OVERALL just awesome; faster phone, longer battery life, nice lookin color scheme.
MY ICARUS 1.1 QUESTIONS: (forgive me if these are noobish...or have been answered elsewhere...I looked)
I am running Titanium Backup. Will this interfere with my Clockwork Mod backup and ability to do a restore?
Seeing how Icarus is so fast, is it at all beneficial on the Ascend to run SetCPU? (Other than for the ability to profile my CPU processes.)
Is it advised to continue cleaning cache as I did pre-Icarus? (Cache Cleaner NG, Cache Mate. Unnecessarily redundant?)
Upon the review of many posts, I junked Juice Defender. Is anyone running a battery saving type app and what has your result been? (I'm using nothing with no complaints about battery life, but you know, the grass is greener.)
Has anyone run a launcher other than LauncherPro with Icarus? Results?
As I did before Icarus (z4rooted), I froze the Android keyboard for Better Keyboard. So far so good. Can I also freeze the Icarus stock music player and go with PowerAMP only?
UNREALTED: I also have a Motorola Droid 1 FRG83D (2.2.1? - don't have the phone with me) and would like to set it up with a custom ROM. I've searched Androidforums only briefly (possibly incorrectly) but haven't seen any post with instructions as user-friendly or performance as universally hailed as on the Icarus 1.1 post here. Any instructional links or ROM suggestions would be great.
Once again, thanks to all those who facilitated the creation of my "NEW" phone!
Any and all answers are appreciated!
Andrew.
hey andrew, a few answers for you here...
1. titanium backup (i call it titbu for short) will not interfere with your cwm restore. titbu doesn't seem to interfere with anything as a matter of fact.
2. yes you're redundant with cachemate and cache cleaner ng. i kept ng as it seemed to clear up more space while my phone was running rooted, boosted stock.
3. setcpu is still useful, especially with games and live wallpapers. i use cpuboost.
4. all "battery saving" or "task killing" apps are useless imo and the ones i have tried had actually had a negative impact on my battery.
5. yes, you can use other launchers. i'm running golauncher ex (witch comes with a handy shortcut in the drawer to kill apps running in background) as i was before i flashed icarus and it runs beautifully. it's the best launcher imo and also lets you choose tighter grid spacing so you can fit more icons per screen and widget resizing so those unnecessarily large widgets (such as the power control bar) can be set to a more reasonable size.
6. i froze the icarus music player and use power amp with no issue.
7. look in the motorola droid forum for answers on that particular phone.
hope i helped and welcome.
I have also checked the APN settings again and are all correct as well. I even tried to create a new APN and it doesn't save it. 
I cant change or modify the existing cricket settings either. 
Data is turned on as well. This does have me a little baffled. I did all the steps from z4root onto cwm and then to the icarus rom and followed them all to the letter. Any help with this at all would be great. I have exhausted all i know i can do.