[HTC Sensation] SyLvEsTeR20007:
Its nice but its not there yet.

Hello All,

First off, please dont flame grill my ass for what im about to say as I know some of it is a matter of personal preference.

While im over the moon to see the Nighleys come out for the Sensation and I can honestly say that I am impressed with the performance of the ROM there are some things that have left me feelin a little disapointed (that are no fault of the ROM or the work put into it) for the most part its things which are missing that I had in the Virtious Inquisition ROMS. Things like having a bar from top right to top left that shows the battery level, I find it a little more accreate than the little battery Icon, I also miss that fact that the battery icon at the top doesnt show the percentage in the middle of the battery but insted to the left of it. Small points I know but its something I have found I prefer as it saves space on the top of the status bar.

While I like the silky smoothness of the trebuche launcher, its a little sad that you cant have 7 Icons on the Dock, for that matter, the bility to have more control over the dock itself is a little lacking (maybe there is an updated version in the pipeline?) .

I did also purchase the Nova Launcher as it forfills a number of my problems as listed above but you cant seem to ditch Trebuche lancher as its a bit to well intergrated into the ROM, and while you can have it disabled, its still 8MB of space that in my view is wasted

I know the ethos of Cyanogen Mod is to keep as close to stock android as possible but would be nice if the Kernel had the ability to get the CPU speed upto 1.72Ghz which I believe is stable for all devices (I know the ROM is very smooth thus its not needed so much but I like the bragging rights and it does show benifits in as much as benchmarks).

In addition, The GPU benchmarks are lacking a little, On My previous ROM as stated above I get 52.4FPS In NenaMark V2 with the updated Adreno 220 drivers, I have since however installed the latest Libs for the Adreno GPU V.213167 and the Results have now ben raised to 44.6 from 38.2. I belive some of the FPS loss is a result of the CPU running at 1.2Ghz rather than 1.72 so I expect that as kernels become available this will change. One thing to note is that Nena Mark V2.2 doesnt show the newest version number of the adreno drivers so I am woundering if the above jump is an annomoly or if it is that NenaMark cant pickup the new version number or if it simply cant use these Libs..... I will do some further testing on this. EDIT, I was in error as I HAD NOT used the correct zip to flash the new Andreno Libs, NenaMark now shows the correct version number but FPS after 3 runs is showing only 45.3 FPS with Force GPU rendering unchecked in Dev settings in the settings menu. With it checked it also gets 45.3 but causes a problem with the transparent effect in the results screen so I will remove the checked option.

I dont seem to be able to find the location of where I can disable wallpaper scrolling, is there option there somewhere or is it not possible or is it a limitation of trebuche?

On the whole, I am impressed and dispite the lacking items I have talked about above, I am still giving serious thought as to if it will be used as my daily driver or if I will simply keep an eye on its development until Trebuche matures.

Would love to know other people detailed views and responces's to my statments.

Peace... Syl