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I was very pleased to see that google released froyo quickly as it reaffirmed my commitment to having a google experience phone. If I had a HTC phone I would still be waiting for them to update their senseui to run on froyo before it was released.

I have being using a cynanogen 5.06 rom on my nexus because of 3g issues. Recently the nexus has been hanging especially when the battery was low so I decided to try froyo. I completed a nandroid backup so I could restore everything back quickly.

Well what a bad decision this was....?

Because froyo is new half of my paid applications don't appear in the marketplace. Then any applications I have installed must be unstable because the nexus is just hanging on the launcher force closing all of the time. It was nice to see the ram boost given by froyo by enabling the second bank of ram as does the cynanogen rom.

But Google should have warned both people and developers that applications would either need updating to run on the new os even if you don't use the new features. They should have also given more time to ensure this happened before the release of froyo to allow time for the changes just like Apple is doing with v4 iphone os.

Then my nandroid backup of the cynanogen rom must be corrupted as any video playback doesn't work now.

What this means for me is now a unusable phone as I have to invest time to rebuild my nexus with a cynanogen rom again or wait until my applications are supported in froyo.

Either way I am not happy about this and am now back on my n900 contemplating either an iphone 4g or desire....?

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