Is upgrading to this really worth it? Other than having gingerbread have you experienced any boost to the phone's performance?
I'm very interested in any difference in the battery draining time. My phone is already rooted and works at light speed. It never hangs. a Couple force closes a week. And I have rebooted it in weeks. So is it worth the jump or should I wait until its out of Beta???
Unlike others, I am getting similar to slightly worse battery life performance. No idea why
The phone itself scores about 500 points higher on a Quadrant test. In real life usage, it's as fast as it always way, still suffers the occasional issue with the back button just stops responding for a few seconds. But it did that on stock too
The area of BIG improvement for was network performance. Holy hell, is CM7 WAY faster and more stable than stock. Like, night and day. On stock, speedtest would show me occasionally peaking at 700kbps down, and 250kbps up. Now I get 1700+kbps down and 500kbps up. Also, on stock my connection would occasionally kink out and require a flip to airplane mode to reconnect. Under CM7, I've never had to do that once.
(Not sure why or if it's a reason, but under stock, Speedtest showed my home server as out in Kansas (I'm in PA). Under CM7, Speedtest shows my home server as being in Philly.
Not sure if it's tied to the above, but the Market is also WAY faster than it was on stock.
So far, no real downside, other than the slight drop in battery life.
My friend who suffered from the flickering screen problem, installed CM7 and it fixed that for him.