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What changes do YOU see with Froyo 2.2?

I noticed that the contact pictures from facebook are no longer pixelated like they were on 2.1. I dont know if anyone ever had the problem but several of my contact pics were very pixelated because the phone croped them very close, this is no longer a problem.
 
htmlcssguru said:
The "official" release comes on the 3rd but you no-lifers download the version that comes with a warning, it screws up your phone and then you complain. Hmmmm
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I swear some people on this board are a complete joke. We have no life because we downloaded an update to our phone early. Yea, no you're the one that need's to get a life. There have been changes good and bad but my phone is far far from screwed up. Just delete your account go somewhere else if you're going to have that sort of attitude.
 
Don't know if this is a feature or a bug...but this morning, I was still asleep. Had my 2.2 EVO on my nightstand on silent, charging. Someone calls and the phone vibrates, continuously. It didn't stop. Steady vibrate. Woke me up, I disconnected the (short) charging cable and it was still vibrating. Had to pull the battery to get it out of it's coma.

That wasn't good...freak accident or bug?

Oh, and so I'm contributing to the topic, apparently the phone now vibrates when you have it on silent. Didn't do that on 2.1.
 
Ok after further digging I seem to have a bunch of services running in the background that I did not have previously running. I was using startup auditor to kill the sprint apps on start up but according to System Panel and the onboard running services all that stuff seems to be running. Some changes must have been made how an app can be killed.

For some reason the music app just refuses to be shut off. I also cant seem seem to killed that damn stocks app. Also the added google search is also running permanently in the background. When choosing the manage applications it's much much faster.

All in all there is way more stuff running in the background most of it being HTC or Android related which I don't touch. Im thinking of installing some sort of task killer but I really dont think that will help since these apps are like viruses. I guess Im going to need to root once the official update is out.
 
PurePursuit said:
Quadrant scores? Anyones have any comparisons between 2.1 and 2.2 in that department?
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I was getting a score of 550 in Quadrant Standard (full test) with 2.1
After the 2.2 update my EVO scored a 1268 running the same benchmark.
Not bad, but still below the Nexus One 2.2 on the scale.
I guess I expected it to be faster after all I had read on the forums...
 
I have that stupid stocks app running all the time too as well as some others. But they don't seem to hurt the battery as far as I can tell.
 
airdog said:
I was getting a score of 550 in Quadrant Standard (full test) with 2.1
After the 2.2 update my EVO scored a 1268 running the same benchmark.
Not bad, but still below the Nexus One 2.2 on the scale.
I guess I expected it to be faster after all I had read on the forums...
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Until the FPS is changed, it will not benchmark well against the other phones. But unless the barely noticeable differences in FPS bother you, that's the only place it will fall short.


I will admit I'm hoping an unrevoked will solve the FPS and add some camera options to boot (and give us free wireless tether). At that point, phone is unquestionably #1 phone on the market.
 
mx7 said:
Phone heats up (warm to the touch).
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My phone has been heating up too. Didn't have that problem before. my battery has gone down the drain. I went from 80 percent to 67 percent in an hour and that was just while emails where coming in. I didnt even check them.
 
- when you're on a call and you move the notification bar down, instead of the "end icon", it has a phone icon now.
 
jmp4106 said:
I'm thinking of installing some sort of task killer but I really dont think that will help since these apps are like viruses
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:rolleyes:

... anyway, back to sanity. Things I've noticed that haven't been listed here so far is that installing/updating apps doesn't load the phone down to the point of hanging up, the pattern lock-screen is a little dimmer than before and the Picasa uploading bug seems to be fixed (where the last part of a picture wouldn't get uploaded properly). But yeah, you can tell the JVM has been improved, as the apps run faster.

But what I can't believe nobody noticed yet- the most outstanding feature- the font for the "3G" indicator has changed. :)

I installed the .zip file without a single issue as soon as I saw the Engadget link yesterday, and it's been completely issue-free. Web/Camera/Camcorder/Flash/Phone all works for me, no resets or reboots save the ones as part of the upgrade were needed.
 
My weather/clock widget and my bookmarks widget are grayed out. I can touch the weather part and it will take me too the details section, but the bookmark widget constantly says loading and it won't respond to touch.
 
heavychevy said:
Until the FPS is changed, it will not benchmark well against the other phones. But unless the barely noticeable differences in FPS bother you, that's the only place it will fall short.


I will admit I'm hoping an unrevoked will solve the FPS and add some camera options to boot (and give us free wireless tether). At that point, phone is unquestionably #1 phone on the market.
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Yea that sucks, my DX can hit 1300 on 2.1. Hopefully the official 2.2 release will fix those battery problems for you guys. unquestionably #1 on the market is laughable though (so many great phones, and so many areas the evo gets rocked in). Awesome you guys got 2.2 already, even if it has some bugs for a few, I'm jealous ;)
 
PurePursuit said:
Yea that sucks, my DX can hit 1300 on 2.1. Hopefully the official 2.2 release will fix those battery problems for you guys. unquestionably #1 on the market is laughable though (so many great phones, and so many areas the evo gets rocked in). Awesome you guys got 2.2 already, even if it has some bugs for a few, I'm jealous ;)
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Droid X is a benchmark queen. The software is drab, the screen is dull, is doesn't have a front facing camera and is awkward looking and cheapish feeling.

Other than the Iphone which has eliminated itself, there is no other competition. When it comes to having it all the EVO is numero uno. You can laugh all you want. Especially all the way to the bank to pay that outrageous phone bill.
 
update on browser issues..... i had the same probably crashing on any flash
now i did have Flash for 2.1 installed and i ment to uninstall it, i forgot.
but xda has the flash drive file for 2.2 i unstalled that and its all working good for me again

so before you try a full reset try that frist


so now my 2.2 EVO is working great with no issues other then systempanel being a little strange, but that has something to do with the app and 2.2.... not the update
 
VGPOP said:
There is no possible way to produce 1280 x 720 with h.264? I need to learn more about encoding types and resolution.
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Not yet, for this update on our phones.

You'll find though that there's plenty of H.264 HD stuff out there in full 1080p HD.

It's not the codec, it's this particular implementation and this particular update.

The custom Cyanogen mod already has it working for 720p.

I'm optimistic that we'll be seeing another camera update for this issue.

It's my understanding that HTC's software arm is located here right in the good old US of A and they're therefore probably more that quite aware of the many threads on this issue for the EVO with some of the best ones being in this forum.

I'd like to believe that rather than this being all that there is, this is more like a warning shot across the bow from them, saying, hey - we hear you and here's proof we're working on it. When I think of all of the Froyo updates they've got to proctor world-wide - I'm ok with that.

And if I'm wrong - there's still the whole custom rom approach and thank you, Cyanogen.

As far as codecs, they're fun to learn about, but here's your starting point (and for a lot of people all that you really need to know): MPEG4 is really MPEG 4 Part 2 and H.264 is from a much later generation and is essentially MPEG 4 Part 10, and its compression scheme is highly optimized for motion. (And ALL codecs compress - don't ever let anyone tell you differently.)

Hopefully, they're also working on tossing out that crappy AMR audio codec, too.

PS - This is a great H.264 write-up, don't be put off by who put it out there:

http://images.apple.com/quicktime/pdf/H264_Technology_Brief.pdf
 
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