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Originally Posted by ptsenter
It’s absolutely unbelievable you’re forgoing a proven method of substantially prolonging battery life – upgrading to Ermine – to get some questionable and marginal at best gain using much more dangerous way of rooting and renaming system app.
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Dangerous? As opposed to possibly bricking the device simply by upgrading? It may be a proven method of extended battery life, but it is also a proven method of (possibly) destroying it.
I have been researching the upgrade process on this forum and, in this thread -
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...update+upgrade - the process is fully annotated. So after the upgrade this is the result:
1. possible lockup coming out of hibernation - for which there is a work around.
2. WSOD - no workaround.
3. battery life - still have to rename/delete telephony apps.
4. moving apps2sd - workaround given.
5. E-ink PDF Annotation - issues with workaround given.
6. browser crashes - workaround?
I use Linux everyday on all of my systems, so I am no stranger to upgrades breaking things. But on my computers, an upgrade never results in an expensive paper weight. You either do a workaround or you reinstall. Since that is not a possibility for a hardware failure, I just don't think it's worth risking on a piece of hardware that I do actually enjoy without the possibility of a replacement/repair from a now defunct company. If Entourage were still in business and would readily replace my PE when it turned into a brick, I would update in a heartbeat.
BTW - I guess I am just spoiled by my HP iPAQ. I've had that thing for years and, still using the original battery, using it every day, I only have to charge it once every couple of weeks. I have no idea why no one seems to be able to design devices like that anymore!