If you're comfortable with modding your (new) phone and installing custom ROM on it I would suggest you go for the Desire HD instead, exact same specs and about the same price with the incredible S too.

I'm pretty sure they have sense 3.0 UI ports to the Desire HD as well. Being released a year ago means that developers had time to fully optimize and perfected the custom ROMS for it

As was mentioned earlier, do not use other phone chargers or unofficial chargers. One quick fix is to remove the battery, press the power button for 10 seconds or better still, press the power button and then leave it alone for 10 minutes or so for all residual charge to be discharged.

For my phone, I personally never experienced such issues. Only issue with me is the occasional wonky power button, sometimes have to press twice, and sometimes it gives me a double press even if I press it once, although I suspect it's related to my custom ROM and the CRT on-off animation.

This post has been edited by AzeL: Sep 26 2011, 04:54 PM

I don't recommend using other Kernel other than Leedroid's 3.3.0 for the time being, since he modified Faux's 0.1.8 version specifically for Leedroid 3.1 ROM..I haven't experienced any blackscreen problems yet. More than a week already on 3.1 with kernel 3.3

CF-Bench Scores

Just for your information, 1.5Ghz is the ORIGINAL clock speed for the CPU in Sensation and the CPU is exactly the same as the one in Sensation XE.

I don't use 1.78Ghz on a normal basis because I feel that the slightly extra performance gained is not worth the battery drain. At the end of the day, benchmark scores doesn't really dictate anything. I can clock back to 1.18Ghz and the phone still feels very smooth and responsive without any lag, despite showing much lower CF-Bench scores.

Well, for me at first I also thought that the internal memory is too damn small for a smartphone at that kinda price, but after actually getting it's never been an issue with me since I only install apps that I use. Initially had a lot of games in it, but after a week or so got bored with most of them, uninstalled most of it and only kept some nice ones (paid ones).

If your phone is rooted (not sure really need root or not), most apps can be transferred to SD Card. Additionally, most of the game data is stored in the SD Card, and the actually application itself is very small, mostly around 2-4mb per app, some even smaller. Last but not least, I haven't seem anyone in this thread, V1 and now V2 actually complain that the small internal memory is giving them a hard time in life or daily phone usage, so personally I think that the issue is not as severe as you might think.

Perhaps another option is that you can uninstall system applications that you don't need, that will free up some space as well, but need to be careful and not delete something vital for the phone to operate normally. I'm not confident on that part so I mostly left whatever system applications that come bundled with ROMs alone.

Long story short, no, you don't really need internal memory.

This post has been edited by AzeL: Sep 26 2011, 10:42 PM

I think sense restart/force close is way better than a black scree and a battery pull.

What about stock kernel?, have you tried that?

It's the kernel from HTC.

I never had that problem since switching over to Leedroid. It usually happens to me(on other ROM) when I'm using other web browser other than the stock "Internet" browser. If I browse too long, it will get very laggy and sense will restart. Never tried other browsers on Leedroid ROM, I think the stock browser is great already.

I tried that, kinda giving me issues, sometimes me mobile data wont enable have to turn it on and off. Same with WI-FI, maybe it's just me though.

Hot damn!, reserve 1 for me!

The CPU, GPU is actually inferior to ours in the Sensation Normal. Adreno 220 has much better performance over Adreno 205.


This post has been edited by AzeL: Oct 7 2011, 06:59 AM

Well, they're targeting noobs who will eat up the "Beats" crap.

There's Better headphones out there.

This post has been edited by AzeL: Oct 7 2011, 07:21 PM