Friday, July 23, 2010

Sapphire

Upgraded to Android 2.2 last night. Installed the SPRecovery bootloader and then installed Sapphire rom, version 0.8.4. Google apps installed seamlessly as well. Followed instructions on Droid Life.

Froyo is a significant speed improvement, especially in the web browser. The browsing bottleneck is certainly web page rendering, not connection speed. Should have updated sooner - Verizon takes far too long to push out updates.

Additionally, installed the newest version of LauncherPro, which is remarkably fast as well. Enabling the "keep in memory" option offers a noticeable performance increase. Also installed the official Swype beta, which never worked properly in 2.1.

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