Samsung Galaxy S MIUI or CM7 are they ready for prime time yet?

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I gave these a go months back and whilst they "worked" they were hard work and buggy, but shinning with potential. Essentially, i've stuck ith Darky's Rom throughout my SGS's existence, it's simple to stick with the same ROM and fairly good (far better than stock!).

But i was just wondering if anyone uses CM7 or MIUI and how you get along with it now days? I had a read over at XDA but the threads are massive now days, and it's really hard to get an overall feel of either.

What are the short comings of them now days? Battery I attain is better than it was, but still not perfect, what else is buggy? Does 3G switching work? What does MIUI or CM7 do that you can't live without on stock or other ROM's?

I kinda wanna switch, but there is a lot of effort involved and i don't want to have to faff around between both to realise day to day running is a pain in the ass or there a little too much "upkeep" involved. Don't get me wrong i don't mind some, i've went from Darky from his very early work all the way up to 10.2.2 just yesterday (which is what go me thinking about MIUI/CM7 again). So i'm fine with a little fettling every so often :)

Thoughts and comments welcomed!
 
Ok so just went for it anyway, had a free night, and i'm glad i did, anyone else thinking of jumping ship i recommend you do so now, by far the best thing that has ever happened to my phone!

So many little things that just make it superb, very very very happy!
 
I'm on the latest nightly, i remember the 2g/3g toggle warning and i've just not touched it incase, because i know it could cause major problems!

Well i've been using it for now, it seems bloody good, only thing i can't test is battery life, i guess i'll have to move back to stock based roms if it isn't good enough :( But otherwise this lastest nightly i'm running is superb. Paid for Rom Manager as well and i'll get update notifications (can't quite get it to register me for push updates but its probably a bug :p).
 
A day is all i really ask, i'm easily pleased, if i can manage a day after *using* my phone then i'm fine!

@alex24 what i meant was there appears to be push updates included with CM7 in their system settings, it warns you that you need a preium license to register (which i have) but it fails none the less...

Only thing i'm missing is swype now which i'm currently jumping through hoops to install now :)
 
I like the ginger keyboard, but i can't live without swype, i find swype just gets worse as it gets older. Predictions get way off as it compounds months of slightly miss typed words, clearing everything easily fixes it :)

Latest swype offers better UI and multitouch tapping and auto correction (like the ginger keyboard) so basically its best of both worlds for me! I couldn't ask hem for more right now :)
 
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