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<div>1. I lost root after the flash. All links point to
GingerBreak but multiple attempts didn't work. I now read
that someone noticed it's done after leaving it for 2.5
hours so I'll try it again - I stopped it after letting it
run for an hour. If you know of anything better then I'd
love to hear.<br>
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Yeah, you'll always lose rose if you flash back to a stock image.<br>
Did GingerBreak help you?<br>
Otherwise just flash any rooted / insecure kernel.<br>
(And then download su.apk etc...)<br></div></blockquote><div><br>No it didn't.<br>I ended up downloading another kernel and installing it.<br>Once you go through it with Heimdall the anxiety level drops...:)<br> <br>
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Alternatively flash a custom ROM, which will have this all done for
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2. Hebrew keyboard - in Froyo I used "Keyboard from
Gingerbread" with a Hebrew language pack, both from the
market. But the Hebrew language pack says it doesn't suite a
"real" gingerbread environment.<br>
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Well, I'm currently using the SlideIT keyboard (like Swype but it's
Israeli, had Hebrew support long before, and I found it has better
'error correction').<br>
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The popular hebrew keyboard has always been the AnySoftKeyboard,
haven't used it in ages though.</div></blockquote><div><br>I used AnySoftKeyboard for a while until Keyboard From Gingerbread was released on the market and I used that. It also had a Hebrew keyboard pack. This was the best keyboard I had so far.<br>
The funny thing is that now that I'm on Gingerbread the keyboard there is a little less convenient than the one on The Market, and doesn't have Hebrew keyboard option, but the one from the Market can't be used on Gingerbread (at least it doesn't appear as an option after I installed it on Gingerbread and tried to "Change Input Method").<br>
Any ideas?<br><br>For now I'm trying Better Keyboard 8 and already getting annoyed that apparently I have to pay even to turn off the vibration (I'm OK with paying after seeing that the application does what I need - e.g. I sent a donation to the Heimdall and CWM authors).<br>
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3. Battery life - what else can I do to extend it as this
was my main problem with Froyo and I'm not sure how well GB
does so far (but only one day of experience).<br>
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Often ROMs have various tweaks to help with this.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks.<br>It looks like the Gingerbread ROM with the newer root'ed kernel and some tweaks turned via an application could sustain for about ~35 hours on one charge. Still not ideal but far better than what I had before.<br>
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On my S1, I was using PilotX ROM and had great battery life; that
was still Froyo though, but maybe there's an update by now.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>What do you call "great battery life"?<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Don't forget, you may need to recallibrate the battery (more on this
elsewhere... it involves wiping the battery stats from recovery and
doing a few full full-empty-full cycles (i think from the lower
level charger when you don't turn on the phone).<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes I started doing that. Got the 35 hours after one such cycle.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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If you use something like OSMonitor and find that kswapd is always
using lots of CPU, you can change some of the vm settings with
sysctl... I don't recall off hand but I can check for you if you
can't find it... vm_dirty or something, and I think one other one.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Yes one of the tweaks was to change swappiness, but also speed up SD card access etc.<br>I use "Battery Indicator", the graph is useful.<br>
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Good luck!</div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks,<br><br>--Amos<br><br></div></div></div>