I’m currently running Cyanogen’s stable ROM build, so I’m not sure whether this stuff is stock or not, but….
I just noticed there is a find button in the options menu. So you can search for text.
I also found out (via the mighty web) that cut and paste is just a shift click touch and drag opperation.
Gazooks!
After a weekend of comparing my G1 with my brother’s HTC Hero, I was impressed at the speed of his phone compared to my older G1
Being the interlectual that he is, he hadn’t crammed as many applications the phone would allow, leaving enough room for the phone to breathe.
As the processor is the same, the speed improvements can only be memory related (proved by cleaning the browser cache from 0K to 9MB and actually being able to make phone calls again).
As the Android platform only allows apps to be run off the Phone memory (not SD), I decided to investigate into A2SD, which lets rooted phones run apps from a special EXT2 partition on the SD card.
Well after a night of wrestling with partitioning the card to have both FAT32 and EXT2 which the G1 would actually read (I think it may have been a size issue), I decided to run a stable build of Cyanogen, leaving the JesusFreke behind.
The amazing thing is that, the build has somehow, magically kept all my apps and moved them to the EXT2 partition, leaving the phone memory almost empty. This at first glance seems to mean that the phone is now running like it means business and everything happens without any lag!
I’ll cane the phone in the next couple of days and keep an eye on the speeds!