This is going to sound petty... but I'm not a fan of the Advanced Task Killer notification icon. Seen a way to change that? Petty, I know... but it's bothering the OCD in me.

Oh, and people saying that the Samsung is having a GPS issue, it's nothing as bad as the slow lock as the N900. It's put me right on the spot, each time. Just once it glitched, but I was inside. Second I back outside, right on spot.

For the Captivate, people are saying get/use the AT&T Mark The Spot app, which is free and not installed by default. It seems to remedy a lot of the probs that others were having. XDA has a couple of threads about that.

That might be true of the Captivate, I've no idea how its GPS performs, but the Galaxy S' is apparently so bad that it's not practically usable.

Good question--I don't know of a way to change the icon but if you send an email to rechild.support@gmail.com (the developer's email address, according to the Android Market) I'll bet they'll take care of that. They've been excellent about responding to feature requests. (Their website is http://rechild.mobi in case you're interested in looking at their FAQ.)

So how the story about open-source drivers ended up ?

Also did you guys try Firefox mobile ?

Not sure--last thing I got was that they opened up some more stuff, apparently, and STSKeeps was looking for source code that might make it handy to port MeeGo over onto the hardware but didn't hear anything more. I know the Android people are having a field day over it, though.

Hey danramos... read this about using a task killer? It's not "that advisable" - http://bit.ly/bwyaPt

I haven't tried any newer androids... but my biggest problem with Android:

Try keeping an SSH connection, an IRC connection, Pandora Streaming, Browse the web and check email/IM.

Don't check on your IRC connection for at least 30 minutes... go back and see if it's still connected. (I was using AndChat).

If it is.. good. It may have been the low resources of the G1 being my problem. If it isn't... I still think Android's "rule-based" auto-closing/sleeping of apps is the worst thing to happen to multi-tasking short of not allowing it at all .

I never could maintain constant open connections like that when browsing around or running other apps on the phone. Android would see my connection apps were "dormant" and decide to cut them off as they obviously weren't needed .

That's why I used a task manager. But I never left it running all day.. that drains batteries. Once I killed what I wanted I then killed the Task Manager with itself . I also didn't randomly close things that I couldn't tell what it was for or what it did (which seems to be the #1 problem/complaint I see about Android with task killers: Users killing whatever the hell they want and then deciding it sucked because they stopped getting SMS messages..)

I found some tutorial on xda. Seems an easy fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727279

What annoys me is that I don't know what updating to froyo will do to this...

Isn't it possible to set an app manager by default from the middle button?

Nice find! I'm not experiencing any of these problems but.. YMMV and all that jazz.

I've stopped using Advanced Task Killer and have switched to Watchdog. Just went 16 hours on one charge where I went 6 hours the day prior. That's with wifi, e-mail, bluetooth, some web surfing, Seesmic in the background.

A few other small tweaks and I think I've found my total replacement.