ICS on the E4GT - Initial Observations

[JayWill72]

Originally Posted by MannyZ28

Never heard of the Nova launcher. I was pretty happy with the ADW EX Launcher until I had to reboot one day and all my nicely setup folders had apps with standard android icons in them, the apps also were missing from the App drawer. Back to stock I went. Been pretty leary of 3rd parth launchers since then.

Here's a video review of Nova launcher for ICS.

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[androidpirate]

In the web browser, does scrolling lock to the y axis when you scroll down or the page moves freely in the x-y axis?

[JayWill72]

Originally Posted by androidpirate

In the web browser, does scrolling lock to the y axis when you scroll down or the page moves freely in the x-y axis?

I'm assuming you mean a page you've zoomed in on so there is page content to the left and right of your view? If so, then it moves freely on the x-y axis. Although careful flicks up and down keep you on the same axis. Is that what you were asking?

Also, regarding the browser, I don't know if this had been added in one of the updates, but I checkbox has been added to enable "Desktop view". I never use the stock browser, but I remember people having to use the about:useragent function to stop the browser from auto-loading the mobile version of pages. I tried that function on the ICS browser and it doesn't work anymore. So I hit the "Desktop view" checkbox and loaded up a few sites and they all defaulted to the desktop view. Nice!

Maybe this was already in and I never knew it, but it was news to me hehe.

[androidpirate]

Yeah that's what I meant, it was taken out in the last update, mostly because apple has a patent on it.

Originally Posted by JayWill72

I'm assuming you mean a page you've zoomed in on so there is page content to the left and right of your view? If so, then it moves freely on the x-y axis. Although careful flicks up and down keep you on the same axis. Is that what you were asking?

Also, regarding the browser, I don't know if this had been added in one of the updates, but I checkbox has been added to enable "Desktop view". I never use the stock browser, but I remember people having to use the about:useragent function to stop the browser from auto-loading the mobile version of pages. I tried that function on the ICS browser and it doesn't work anymore. So I hit the "Desktop view" checkbox and loaded up a few sites and they all defaulted to the desktop view. Nice!

Maybe this was already in and I never knew it, but it was news to me hehe.

[JayWill72]

By the way the Gmail app for ICS (version 4.0.3-239410) is in this ROM and it's pretty nice! It definitely got a facelift. Still no pinch to zoom though. Grrrr.

[ledlauzis]

Thanks JayWill72 for nice summary of what is improved in this build!

Hopefully Samsung will release update for my SGS2 sometime soon
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[JayWill72]

I thought I'd add a Quadrant benchmark I ran, for those who actually care about benchmarks. It came out about 800 points higher than the current Gingerbread stock ROM, or at least back when I ran the stock around release. It's been awhile lol. Anyhoo...



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[qfnol31]

How's battery life for you? It's been really bad for me, but I'm going to try to wipe the USB storage and my SD card to see if that works.

Have you tried out the stock ICS launcher? I switched to it not long after installing ICS and haven't gone back. The stock launcher works really well and looks nice. It bring in a lot of the original ICS upgrades, like the light blue at the end and some of the transitions, along with the app drawer and widget drawer. Overall I have been quite pleased with this, though there are a couple instances with touchwiz that I wish they hadn't. I don't care for the TW calendar and stuff like that.

[JayWill72]

Originally Posted by qfnol31

How's battery life for you? It's been really bad for me, but I'm going to try to wipe the USB storage and my SD card to see if that works.

Have you tried out the stock ICS launcher? I switched to it not long after installing ICS and haven't gone back. The stock launcher works really well and looks nice. It bring in a lot of the original ICS upgrades, like the light blue at the end and some of the transitions, along with the app drawer and widget drawer. Overall I have been quite pleased with this, though there are a couple instances with touchwiz that I wish they hadn't. I don't care for the TW calendar and stuff like that.

Battery life isn't too bad if I keep the GPS off. Not like on my ROM with my underclock and undervolt scripts running, but respectable. I'm at 45% right now with 10 hours off the charger and 1.5 hours of screen on time.

Yeah I tried he stock launcher. I don't really care for it. If you like it though you'll really like Trebuchet. It's the stock launcher but with extra features.

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[maluminse]

Updated today thinking it was Ics rolling out but nope nada. rip.