OK, I thought of a way, but have never tested it before since I have data plan on my phone and also wifi in my office.

1. Connect laptop to internet via LAN (wired network)
2. Set up Internet Connection Sharing on your laptop to share Internet out via the laptop's WIFI
3. Connect phone to laptop's WIFI (adhoc connection, methinks)
4. Surf away..

I am happy with stock JVB for now. Rooted and lagfixed (ext4) via CF-Root 3.1 kernel. Am still looking around for a custom rom that fits my taste..

With ext4 conversion of the filesystem, for me, JVB GB ROM smokes all other stock Froyo ROMs.. So I guess everyone's mileage varies..

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Added on May 5, 2011, 4:27 pmBro, does native MKV/AVI video playback work now on CM7? How about 720p video recording? These 2 things are kinda important to me. Battery life ok and no lags too?

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: May 5 2011, 04:31 PM

MoboPlayer supports software decoding and also hardware decoding (e.g. like stock video player) of certain video format. I think under MoboPlayer's settings you can set the decoding mode for specific video formats. Hmm, maybe I should try the new 01/May release of CM7

After you record the 'high' video, can you try to find it in MoboPlayer? If 720p, the video thumbnail will have a HD label on it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Damn.. stock JVB then for me.. until I see something more interesting on the horizon.

Really? Which version? Newer than JVB? I don't see anything announced on Samfirmware's twitter timeline.

Yay, something to flash after 2 weeks running stock JVB

Must wait for root package and CF-Root kernel with ext4.

Works fine for me.

Trying MIUI rom now.. Waaah, everything is so different than CM7, stock, and all the current custom ROMs I've tried.. Very iOS-ish.. Not sure if I like it or not, yet.

CF-Root kernel 3.1 for JVB with ext4 app addon to convert filesystem to ext4 (from rfs).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...359&postcount=6

and

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...371&postcount=7

Have you all noticed that if you take the current MIUI 2.3.4 MGv1 link 'http://www.modroms.co.uk/miui/MIUI-MGv1.zip' and change it to 'http://www.modroms.co.uk/miui/MIUI-MGv2.zip', there actually is a file to download. I wonder why the info for this so-called v2 is not posted on the MIUI thread @ xda-developers.

Soft bricked my phone twice yesterday, lost all my data in the internal SD (lucky I had a backup on PC) and all around many adventures moving back and forth between ROMs (JVB -> EZBase Froyo -> MIUI -> EZBase Froyo -> CM7) but am finally using CM7 with the latest nightly.

Barring lack of smooth MKV playback (AVIs play fine with MoboPlayer), it does look like CM7 is stable and mature enough to be used as a daily driver. Speedy beast this AOSP rom - practically no lags at all.

Had MIUI for about 4 hours on my phone - it was a beautiful looking ROM but I didn't like the iOS-ness feel of the whole UI. It wasn't super smooth too, did notice some minor lags here and there. Plain old CM7 feels way better, in my experience.

Ya, still enjoying the lagless CM7 ha ha. Codec support not critical to me ever since I dumped my iPad and got myself a Galaxy Tab, a much better MKV/AVI/RMVB/WMV/FLV/MP4 player gadget than the SGS can ever hope to be.

Yep, MIUI still has lags, sadly. Good thing I didn't like its UI.

Scrolling through the call logs has always lagged for me since Eclair days, no different in latest Gingerbread JVH stock rom. It doesn't lag in CM7 rom for me, but then again, I had lost all my entries when I moved to CM7, currently only 10 entries, so no jerkiness or lagginess yet.

Your friend is correct.

I see a number of kernels for CM7, not sure which is good but judging from user feedback, the bilboa one seems to be getting more positive comments.

glitch = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041532
platypus = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053304
bilboa1 = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979206

Have not tried them yet, still learning the ropes with CM7. The settings page alone has so many options to set/unset and so far since there is no lag, I am happy to stick to whichever kernel is active in the latest nightly.

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Added on May 10, 2011, 10:20 pmMaybe the gingerbread bootloader buat kacau for you. From JVH, I went down to Froyo bootloader before I tried MIUI and CM7 by flashing to EZBASE Froyo ROM first using EZODIN utility.

EZbase-PDA-XWJS3.tar.md5
EZbase-PHONE-XXJVE.tar.md5
EZbase-CSC-XXJV1.tar.md5

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12068557

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Added on May 10, 2011, 10:22 pmSlightly worse than stock JVB with CF-Root kernel, I think. Usually with my 2700mAh battery, my phone on that stock ROM would have about 50-60 percent of juice left at 10pm. With CM7, I had about 40+ percent left when I got home just now.

This post has been edited by kmrdeva: May 10 2011, 10:22 PM

Bloody wow.. Just watched the last part of today's Google I/O event livestream. Each and every of the 5000 developers attending the event will get a Samsung Honeycomb tablet! Not sure if it's the redesigned 8.9 or 10.1 model.. Samsung and Google way to go!!

CM7 = AOSP, no?

CM7 is as plain android as I can see. Seems stable enough. Using it now. What do you mean Nexus S experience? Sorry, have never played with or owned a Nexus S.