<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:15 AM, W.Kenworthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008.9 + updates<br>
<br>
A phone that works:<br>
reliably make and receive calls<br>
reliably make and receive sms's<br>
<br>
At the moment, totally losing sms messages (phone sometimes<br>
hangs/crashes when one comes in) or not waking up if suspended when one<br>
comes in means that its almost unusable as a phone.<br>
<br>
It often takes several boots before the pin dialog comes up. If you<br>
forget while waiting and it does come up but its awhile until you get to<br>
it, it will hang so you have to reboot anyway. Sometimes restarting X<br>
helps, but not always<br>
<br>
<br>
Stability:<br>
My average in normal usage is at least two boots a day due to crashes,<br>
and often extra rebooting to check if an sms comes in (sometimes they<br>
will only show on fresh re-registration. Leaving the phone on and<br>
registered for hours doesnt seem to help - not sure how vodafone<br>
australia takes to retry messages but surely its less that 12 hours.<br>
The only way to stop crashes is not to use the thing! No GPS, no<br>
wireless, no phone calls, and definitely never send/receive an sms :)<br>
<br>
I suspect the event/0 thread is at the root of a lot of this so I am<br>
waiting a fix for that.<br>
<br>
I dont think I am alone in this - hopefully the new focus means that<br>
these issues can be dealt with.<br>
<br>
I am a little concerned though that you think things like boot time is<br>
important enough to mention, but not basic issues like being able to<br>
reliably make a phone call. Though a faster boot means less time wasted<br>
going through multiple bootups to get the thing registered. :)<br>
<br>
I should mention that 2007.2 seemed more stable and mature than 2008<br>
anything still is up until work stopped on it.<br>
<br>
BillK<br></blockquote></div><br>I am with BillK on this one, Stability should be the top priority. Getting suspend/resume, GSM issues and fixing CPU hogging processes fixed, would be a great help in allowing me (and I am sure many other people) to focus limited amounts of free time to actually developing software and customizing the distribution, instead of trying to chase bugs and scouring for tweaks/fixes, just to get the basic features working. <br>
<br>So I applaud the new effort to concentrate on the basics and I am eagerly awaiting the results to trickle down so I can finally start spending my time working on the software. In the mean time I will get back to collecting and consolidating tweaks/fixes to get the basic functions to work.<br>
<br>-Jacob<br></div>