Simple (Sweet) Honey v3.5 Revolution - Part 2

Finally, got my hacked Maps 5.4 updated into my phone. Unfortunately, I'm still not able to get Swype working. I wonder which version works for Simply Honey's ROM.

I have tested the GPS earlier. It seems to locked within seconds as well, outdoor. I guess that's the miracle of Gingerbread kernel on SGS phones. It was a good thing to know that it locks quick and well, but accuracy remained much to be desired. Luckily my Holux external GPS mouse still kicking.

During the testing period, around 1 hour, my phone was connected to HSDPA with GPS on all the time. The power drain was around 10% - 15%, which I was glad to see. As with CM7 Nightly, it would have at least dropped 20% or more, even the connection was sustained at 3G only.

Will keep this ROM for a week and decide later this weekend whether I will be switching ROMs again. This ROM wasn't exactly fast/smooth/quick in response. It was very much like the original Gingerbread ROM for SGS. Nothing to shout about, other than the pretty eye candy. Perhaps I should throw in the animated wallpaper as well to fully compare them both, in term of power drain.

Some forummers claimed that the power drain was an issue of JVK ROM. But I doubt so, cause I have used the leaked ROM based on XXJVK, which doesn't seem to drain as quickly as CM7 Nightly's. I guess it's just the Android OS bug, which claimed by another group of people. It's just ironic as that Android mascot was called the Android bug.

Shoot me if you will, I really like some of the bundled apps made by Samsung. Such as the built-in ScreenCapture (back+home button) service. The integrated contact list. The search-on-the-fly dialer, which is very easy to find out who's the person of a phone number from your contact list. Lastly, it would be the camera software, which I have get used to, with all the camera tweak settings and all.

Finally, my verdict on this ROM is, it doesn't deserve the title ROM at all. It felt like a Theme instead. Just imagine you have the official ROM installed, then you apply a theme. This is what you get, basically. No performance improvement, or not much on those low level coding (kernel level) to tweak the ROM. It just performed like official ROM, with steroid on its UI. That's it.

Part 1: Simple (Sweet) Honey v3.5 Revolution