This rom rocks! Shame on you Paul for not telling us sooner
I say that because you joined the thread like "oh yeah that old thing? I've been using this for weeks!" LOL.
Regardless, this thing has been rock solid for me. The stable state of a stock launcher- and yet so many custom features, you'd swear it was a 3rd party launcher. I LOVE the 5x5 grid and custom notification toggles. Anyone else having trouble with the wimax toggle though? LOVE being able to remove the annoying google bar. Just wish they'd add removal of the menu bar like Go launcher has. The resizing of any widget to any grid size is also a must. love that. The battery icon mods, and the lockscreen options are also great.
Unless CM9 really knocks it out of the park, I may never leave this.
Special thanks to thebullfrog for this thread, apparently Paul never wanted us to know about this! And here I thought you were looking out for us buddy.
As far as restoring apps- this was my 1st time using app monster pro. Google still doesn't seem to resore anything but my purchased apps. I like how it remembers your non paid apps too and there's a feature to pull apps either from local backup or refresh from the market. VERY HANDY. This go round I restored from local storage to save time... and while I still had to "ok" each app install, it was a very quick process. I don't think the app restores the data like titanium does, but that's ok- as I think that's the problem for frequent rooters- data conflicts, not the application being restored on it's own.
In the past, I didn't use a backup as I had way too many issues with ROMS not working right in the epic days.
I use 2 folders with shortcuts and apps, these I restore from Folder Organizer- another great app for those sort of things- love how you can change the folder icon to any icon you want. I was up and running with my full preferences / homescreens apps restored in about an hour...too me some time to wade through all the customizations of this rom!