My battery life on dooderbutt v4 is not noticeably different than on gingerbread.
And you're right that ics doesn't have a lot that I absolutely need, but I prefer the button layouts and font and the general feel of ics compared to gingerbread. Did you try the panoramic pictures? That is a cool feature. And the voice to text is a kit better.
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How to answer this... I am at polar opposite of some of what you said and agree with some of what you said. Fonts and icons... Have said this over and over here in this forum. I like the GB fonts and icons better than ICS. I feel the fonts and icons in ICS are a little cartoonish for my tastes. See statement GB "is more visually pleasing to me" Go to your ICS address book and honestly tell me its more visually pleasing than Gingerbreads which comes stock inverted with white text on a black background.
I had the epic4g for a year and never used the panoramic option. I have a much better camera than will ever be on a phone. However when I do want a camera in a pinch, I have used the phone. If I need anything more than point and shoot it won't be done with a phone.
Yes I agree the stock ICS phone settings is
better laid out. But still find the overall look of the setting menu in GB more visually pleasing with the white on black layout. Not to mention that the more mature rom/kernel developement in gingerbread added cpu, lockscreen, notification bar tweaks built into the settings menu without the need for added apps such as set cpu and ns tools. While these things will eventually make it into the ICS ROMS and kernels, I prefer them and can have it now with gingerbread.
You and I also agree on the voice to speech in ICS is better than in gingerbread. However to me, it is kind of like face unlock. It's more of a novelty than a real function I would use on a regular basis. My phone is turned off for the most part while driving, so it's just another feature that while nice or needed for some is not something I would ever miss.
Oh and one of my favorite features... When I reject a call, I can send a quick text message. I've used it quite a few times.
And of course everything is easier to find like system and app settings.
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I have never rejected a call. I have voice mail when I do miss a call. I would be offended if I received a text stating you would call me back because you were busy. If you had the time to text you could have answered the phone. Then again I never use the phone for business. Where I work if your caught on a personal phone during working hours you are sent home without pay for 3 days. We get a 30 minute lunch and 2 15 minute breaks and those are the only times we are allowed to even pick them up.
Yes the menu setting are a little better laid out, I can still find EVERYTHING pretty easily with the way its laid out in gingerbread. And if I really needed quicker access to certain settings it is easy enough to add a shortcut to any setting menu item I want on the desktop or dock. Besides IMO...The menu looks better in gingerbread.
Have to agree with you about gingerbread ROM speeds; I think that's related to the infantile nature of the ICS ROMs compared to GB ROMs. Lag is still there with gomez, but not as much as with the other ROMS as I have noticed.
Also, it would seem that we're all much more familiar with the location of features within GB, so finding them on a new OS does take a little more time.
I dunno; maybe I'll go back to a GB ROM for a while and see if there's anything I'm missing...
While I have already touched on the subject that ICS Roms are infantile in nature compared to gingerbread, I find the mature nature of the gingerbread more of what I want now. I also agree that when the official ICS update for our phones come available, the roms will become much more stable and development will speed up considerably.
I have been on ICS as a daily driver for weeks now and know where everything is located so that's not an issue. I prefer the speed, smoothness, the maturity of the roms and kernels and the visually pleasing aspects of gingerbread over what is currently available in ICS. While I will continue to flash the ICS roms to check out their development, I will use my favorite GB roms as daily drivers until such a time the ICS roms mature to the same level as I am seeing on gingerbread.
A quick point about the battery life. The ICS roms I have been using, while they say they support deep idle they really don't. I look in the deep idle stats and it always shows 0% time in deep idle. On my favorite GB roms on an average day, the stats show closer to 30% time in deep idle. I have read that this means little in regards to actual battery life but I would have to disagree. In my experience, I have found that as the deep idle time increases so does my battery life.
This post isn't intended to try and change anyone's mind about ICS. I know That I will have to eventually make the switch if I want to stay up with the developments. However I feel that the development at this point in time is not to a point that satisfies me yet. I just can't get over how many people think that because ICS is newer, it is better. Does anyone remember when windows vista came out? Vista was a step back compared to XP in almost every way.
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