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One more phone update

Wow it has been a while and I wasn't sure I was really done, but... I went through 3 Motarola Atrix phones and 2 HTC phones before I finally got one that worked :-( The good news is that I have an HTC Inspire 4g just like Squeej! I have rooted it I have installed ICS (The specific inspire build is Ice Cold Sandwich by LorD ClockaN) Everything but hd video recording seems to work. I have tried a couple of other roms, MIUI was pretty good once I fixed the sound issues, but I kept getting FCs all over the place Cyanogenmod 7 is my next favorite but then I miss my ICS too much so Ice Cold Sandwich it is. Thanks for listening...

Phone update

Got My new phone :-) once I put the battery in, (sent it back without one, and ordered the replacement a different way), it started to hard reset :-( The wifi chip doesn't work at all, it just says "error" under wifi settings. Every time I plug it into a power source it hard cores. I updated the Rom to the latest version, no difference. I got my data off of it and my microsd card and sent it back to the Geek Squad, Got an iphone 4 loaner. It's a pretty phone, but call quality is not as good as my motarola, and ios 5 is no Ice Cream Sandwich ... although this white iphone kind of looks like an ice cream sandwich, wonder what it tastes like ... New, New phone should be here on Friday according to the guys at BB. No longer holding my breath. The good news is that if this one doesn't work then I get a $600 in store credit to buy the phone of my choice. Now to decide between the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, and the HTC Vivid; decisions decisions.

Why I might just buy all phones from Best Buy from now on

Tuesday I lost my beloved Ice Cream Sandwich.  We were out in the yard burning the Ivy that we tore off the house last week, I had my phone in the pocket of my sweat shirt. While moving some out lying ivy into the fire I dropped my phone.  Let me just say, raking through coals and seeing "Motorola" is a sickening experience.  I completely freaked out because I have a full month (today actually) before I have a phone refresh coming. My dreams of being able to wait for an I phone 5 or a real ICS build or...or...were crushed. Now I have to get what I can afford, and that will limit money for the next "precious". And then I remembered, "I have Black Tie Accident Protection on my phone!" My joy was full. I could get another Atrix 4G and continue enjoying my ICS pleasantly awaiting something better. I jumped in the car and flew over to Best Buy (happy not to see any police because I drove a little too fast). Stopped by the phone counter where they said, "

Ice Cream Sandwich!!!!

Let me start this by saying "I am an Apple fanboy!" I just want to make that clear. I gave water to the dead the day that Steve Jobs died. I felt personal pain watching Woz on dancing with the stars. I suffered for months with a failing wireless card, and bad memory in my macbook pro because I don't want to go back to a Dell (no offence Micheal). I can't wait for the next Iphone because I am eligible for an upgrade on May 5. That being said, I really like this ice cream sandwich. After Google released the source for ICS late last year, Cyanogen and his development team went straight to work building Cyanogenmod 9 (Cyanogenmod 7 was based on Gingerbread, they skipped Honeycomb because of it's tablet specific pedigree). Unfortunately my phone, the Motorola Atrix 4G did not have official Cyanogenmod support due to some difficult hardware and Motorola's highly customized OS. I had no hope for ICS any time soon. Then last week we got an over the air update to t