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Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm tired, my head hurts, my son won't stay asleep for longer than an hour. Just a small list of things adding up to make my english seem remedial at best. Anyways, I've edited my post so it's a bit easier to read.
I'm not sure if this happened before because I couldn't really find it in the ALPHA thread or this BETA thread, but I had flashed my phone and all was grand. I reboot the phone after playing around in ICS for a bit to boot to recovery (Xionia CWMA v1.2518.6) to flash over S2E, and I read on here before I do it NOT to do it; alright then, nothing like taking the bullet OUT of the gun that's aimed at your foot.
So I reboot back to ICS, when I get a prompt that says "Android Upgrading" and then "Android is optimizing your apps XX of 66 (which I don't know WHERE it got that number since I barely had 16 and this was a fresh card) and I think nothing of it until I go try to find the play store to get some apps and its gone. Completely gone, no widget, no package, no anything whatsoever
So I flash overwrite gapps thinking something went wrong and when it boots, its still gone. I dirty flash the ICS Rom over again as well as gapps once again, and its still gone. I say FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU as loud as I can and wipe everything and start again. Flash the ICS and Gapps over as I'm installing it fresh. And it's back!
Right now, I'm gonna try CIA at the moment and see how that works (mainly because I'm still incredibly confused about the sd-ext and how it works, how you can tell whats there, how to make sure things force-move there, and all that jazz) plus I now hear that anything over 1 GB might cause stability issues, as well as having a swap size associated with the card; and I maxed it out at 4GB and a 256MB swap size. Have I shot myself in the foot?
I have no problem loading up debian and formatting it EXT3 or 4 in there, but the question to me is what would I have to do if I choose to stick with Quattrimus to be able to see my SD-Ext and be sure with full peace of mind that apps are there; and also, has anyone ever had that whole "Optimization of apps" thing happen and completely lose the Play Store. Everything else worked: calendar, web history, anything that synced to my account; but I had no store. I's so kernfused
{BTW, it appears CIA doesn't like my phone, or it doesn't like me. I flashed two different builds, and both have hung at the boot animation. So I think I can count that out for now. I'm debating the pros and cons of trying the CM9 flavor again or perhaps giving AOKP a taste, and I'm still unsure. I hear ups and downs for both (I really do use youtube a lot and the "Slide Show" would bother me quite a bit, but I absolutely LOVE customizing and getting into the inner workings of things and adapting them to suit my needs and tastes) and I'm thinking I might give them both a chance to see what suits my preferences a bit more}