ploum
05-07-2006, 09:39 AM
I did the upgrade a few weeks ago and now this is time for a review.
So, in my experience, the flashing worked very well. What has changed ?
Good :
- quickier and snappier. the system is more responsive.
- The system use less ram. I see the "not enough memory" far less ! (I didn't enable swap or anything)
Less good :
- Refresh of the screen is worst. At start, I have 5 or 6 seconds with most of the widget displayed as blank. Also, when changing the wallpaper, it happens most of the time that I end with a blank background.
Bad :
- virtual keyboard in Opera. Enabling switching the virtual keyboard in opera is weird. It looks just weird and take a lot of time. If you hit two or three times, the keyboard will appear, disappear, appear again in a very weird way. It's not good at all.
- link in Opera. This is very buggy. Often, Opera doesn't let me click on a link. It's like their was no link at all. Virtual right click even show no link at all most of the time. sometime, clicking doesn't work but right click>open does. In the same page without refresh. It's very frustrating.
- Applications will not launch anymore. Often, a given app will not launch anymore until I reboot. It may also affect all the applications but not always. Rebooting solve the problem.
- wifi connectivity. I loose my wifi far more often than with the previous firmware. In fact, I find myself trying to quickly finish my tasks before dropping the connection, being anxious about that.
Conclusion : With the previous release, I nearly never rebooted my 770. With the new firmware, I'm doing it every two or three days. It's faster, quickier, I can launch more applications in the same time but the overall feeling is worst : having to click 3 times to open a link, seeing large white bands when opening the virtual keyboard, loosing your connection every time.
For the first time, I found once myself angry against my 770... not good.
So, in my experience, the flashing worked very well. What has changed ?
Good :
- quickier and snappier. the system is more responsive.
- The system use less ram. I see the "not enough memory" far less ! (I didn't enable swap or anything)
Less good :
- Refresh of the screen is worst. At start, I have 5 or 6 seconds with most of the widget displayed as blank. Also, when changing the wallpaper, it happens most of the time that I end with a blank background.
Bad :
- virtual keyboard in Opera. Enabling switching the virtual keyboard in opera is weird. It looks just weird and take a lot of time. If you hit two or three times, the keyboard will appear, disappear, appear again in a very weird way. It's not good at all.
- link in Opera. This is very buggy. Often, Opera doesn't let me click on a link. It's like their was no link at all. Virtual right click even show no link at all most of the time. sometime, clicking doesn't work but right click>open does. In the same page without refresh. It's very frustrating.
- Applications will not launch anymore. Often, a given app will not launch anymore until I reboot. It may also affect all the applications but not always. Rebooting solve the problem.
- wifi connectivity. I loose my wifi far more often than with the previous firmware. In fact, I find myself trying to quickly finish my tasks before dropping the connection, being anxious about that.
Conclusion : With the previous release, I nearly never rebooted my 770. With the new firmware, I'm doing it every two or three days. It's faster, quickier, I can launch more applications in the same time but the overall feeling is worst : having to click 3 times to open a link, seeing large white bands when opening the virtual keyboard, loosing your connection every time.
For the first time, I found once myself angry against my 770... not good.