I don't know about anyone else, but for me the custom ROMs have never notified me of an OTA update. The wife has an evo shift and got one last month I think? I can't remember, but never-the-less, I didn't even get notified that there was one available. Then I started playing with some of the newest ROMs and noticed things like sense 3 (which has the coolest lock screen IMO), the notification drop down had changed like hers did, so I'm wondering if the devs haven't already incorporated the latest update into the newest ROMs. I'm not sure which ROM to stick with, and yes I know that it's all subjective as far as preferences. I don't know how people have been getting such high quadrant scores, I can't seem to get past 1100. My linpack is at a nice 34 though. So far the highest quadrant I've gotten was with MIUI. I just hate the way that it resembles a cry-phone. Loaded launcher pro on it though to get rid of that nonsense but still had the benefit of the high quadrant score. The only other high quadrant that I've gotten is when I loaded the ultimate droid, but I've heard that he was involved in those tornados down south back in the spring and therefore hasn't been able to do much in the way of updates. Not that I'm complaining, I wish him all the luck in the world, just giving some info in case anyone wants to look for TUD. Other than that, I haven't had much luck with speed and definitely NO luck with battery life. Even after trying out different Kernels (which my phone crashed after half of them), I can only last about 4 hours before it's down to power saver mode. If anyone has any tips on that, I'm all ears. I've turned off 4G, bluetooth, wifi notification, mobile network (when only on wifi), adjusted screen timeout, tried bloat freezer, etc. Well, time to conclude this war and peace chapter. Much luck to all on making your phones your own.