Ah ok thanks  why not use swype? i prefer swype over the other keyboards 

thanks for the info, i will try it once i flashed to neo's nextsense rom.. im stiill on neophyte 1.4a which is based on frf91, havent tried rom based on official OTA since ive just finished my final exam yesterday.. yippe!
guys, nextsense 4.0 and leedroid mod 1.8 .. which one u guys prefer? do drop some thoughts.. i really wanna see ur personal opinions since quite a number of people rooted and already flashed custom roms now 

seems like Maxis changed their HTC Desire specs in their website.. its stated using S-LCD.. duno which 1 to get man.. S-LCD or AMOLED 

Good analysis LOL

Neophyte seems to be impatient sometimes when handling XDA forumers (and at times hard to understand his english), but nevertheless I think his ROM is really polished and not much trouble - he's fast in fixing issues too. Not sure if the underclocked thing really works but I just assume it would for now (since it doesn't feel that slow anyway)

I tried LeeDroid 1.7 once and had market problem causing handset reboot (means I couldn't do anything else) then gave up. It's prolly fixed already in 1.8 though

If you're on Modaco's Custom or Leedroid's ROM, they have this thing called "Rosie" which allows you to click-drag homescreen rearrange when pinch-zoomed out. Not sure if you could install Rosie on other Roms though..

I find the battery life slightly improved (not more than 20%), without visible impact on performance (unless you want to run Quadrant test - which I get 1060 max for battery save ROM and 1360 max for normal version). I think battery somehow sustains better when you are in standby mode (drop only around 1-2% per hours if you leave it standby without using)

LuffyPSP (and other XDA forumers) seemed to claim that 4.0 drains much faster than 3.4, but I can't tell the difference since I only used 3.4 for half a day NeoPhyte claimed that he will release 5.0 with further performance and battery life tweak, looking forward for that
If you want an everyday phone, you can stay on with the stock version and it is still a desirable phone to use! It's probably not as cool as an iPhone, but going forward you get more free apps, and it's more customizable. And sometimes it's good to be low profile

Read the first post if you want to know more information, and welcome to the Android world!
If ROM Manager doesn't work, do the manual way (rebooting to Clockwork Mod and flash the zip) then. I find ROM Manager rather buggy and avoid using it for the time being

Seems like Neo recommended a wipe for the lock screen thingy

I would do it just to be safe

Some said even flashing with no-wipe it would replace the lockscreen as well
No harm to have more battery life

flashed nextsense 5.0 already? kinda lazy to do it now.. lol... I wonder whether the old radio really can save battery or not.. hmm..

You didn't check properly with seller when you buy ?

Btw, for Apps2SD+, will it completely install in your card or still partially of the apps will be have data on phone ?

@samurai, do report on ver5.0 with older radio
just downloaded ver4.0 this morning and now got 5.0 
going to be a ROM junkie or ROM collector now!

@KTCY, the A2SD+ will be all on SD. think almost none on phone

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Added on August 9, 2010, 1:39 pm@Luffy, the phone cant actually tell there's ext partition on the SD
that's why it says installed in phone but actually is on ext partition
see the phone internal memory still at 130 Mb

Will do... running the nextsense 5.0 batt save version now (the lockscreen is back to the one in 4.0) the Quadrant score is 1060 (as opposed to 1360 for normal version) - hopefully it gives me some battery juice enough for two days
A2SD+ still uses a bit of phone memory I think, but not much

And trust me, you wouldn't need >100 applications at a time

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Added on August 9, 2010, 2:45 pm
Nah, it's easier than you thought

I also flashed AmonRA recovery using Unrevoked... just an extra step