A New Phone (Sort of)

Actually, a refresh of my old phone. For the last month, the battery in my T-Mobile G1 has been really flaky. It didn’t hold a charge for long and would shut down the phone if I was using some power-draining apps. Then Cyanogen released version 5 of his cyanogen mod (Android 2.1) but I couldn’t install it because I didn’t think my battery would last through the update process. Finally I had enough and ordered a new battery. I found a deal on ebay for two more powerful batteries for only $9.19, with free shipping. How can you beat that? Yesterday they arrived in the mail and I charged one of them up to full. Then I went through the update process to install the latest and greatest cyanogenmod and am now up and running with Android 2.1. It’s so fast and smooth. I think it’s extra snappy because I wiped the phone during the upgrade process and installed the apps from scratch. Probably cleaned up a lot of crap. Everything is running nicely and it’s like I have a new phone. Too bad the update didn’t give the phone a 3.5mm headphone jack, but I’m used to it.