I had a moment of weakness and jumped on the band wagon and loaded the update. I, like some other member, had a problem where the screen would shut off prematurely. A few times the the screen shut down immediately after being started. It became annoying. One of my first thought was that something was running and became incompatible after the update so I turned off all applications running leaving the services untouched. I played with the phone for a while but the problem was still there.
The next thing that I did is remove software that i had downloaded in installed. Sheeeesssshhhh! I didn't know that you could install that many applications! I left a handful of software installed like K-9 e-mail, Juice Defender, Sudoku(This is very important!
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I shut down the phone and then restarted it.One thing I noticed when the phone booted up was that Juice defender was not loading, Since I didn't change any settings, I figured that I didn't need to do anything. I was wrong! (Don't tell my wife I said this! I'll deny it!) All of my original settings were gone as if I had just installed it for the first time. For simplicity, I set Juice Defender to a balanced profile.
Since then, I no longer have this issue.
My phone has never been rooted and it seems that the update does not install cleanly if you have other software loaded.
If the major issues that were listed:
1) Standby shows as being reasonable
After 16h:08m off charge, phone idle at 8% and cell standby at 7%
Android OS at 17%
Voice Calls at 15% 24Minutes
Display 13%
Slacker 13% It ran for 4h 43m with a total cpu time of 21m 20s sent 104.42KB and received 480.87 KB
Wi-Fi 13% Wi-Fi running for 9h 20m
Media server 7%
Dolphin Browser 7%
Android System 2%
Market 2%
After all this, my battery still showed 20%
2) Blue photos. Gone!
3) GPS locked in 7s
does not lock on. Mine almost never locks on. I have tried removing battery, standing on my head. trying different orders of unticking and re ticking the gps settings. Nothing works
4) Random restarts. Never had one that I know of.
5) Prior to the upgrade I was having problems with the keyboard where a key would continue repeating. Haven't seen this since the update but I think it's premature to say the update fixed it.
After all this, I do have a question.
Since I did the manual update, will I be able to get the final update via OTA?