[LG Nitro HD] itiskonrad:
my two cents on "official ics leak"

Ok, so I managed Swype, but after a lot of deliberation, I'm switching back to my stock GB with HONO's kernel. Now, before everyone jumps on me, this is just my personal opinion about ICS (at least this release). I guess it's not a direct comparison to CM9, but just some stuff I noticed about this ICS leak and why I'm staying on GB for now, in case anyone's also considering trying out the release.

-FIRST, yes, it appears to be very slick and smooth. That much I do appreciate (though to be honest, I wouldn't say significantly snappier than my stock rom with HONO's kernel), and it does smooth out a lot of the gradient issues in GB.

-No official Swype, it seams. Even though Swype DOES support ICS, when I try to install it, it has some sort of package parsing error and never installs. I can install from my GB Titanium backup, and it actually runs just fine, only it's a mini-sized keyboard in the lower corner of the phone on account of (I suppose) the resolution of the version which runs on GB. Now, I did find an apk someone posted online which seemed to work okay, but I know how Swype is, and if somehow they can detect it's not installed where it should be, it'll get turned off in a heartbeat, which, for a Swype ADDICT like me is unforgivable. So that's a con.

-Weird static wallpaper on the lockscreen that covers your homescreen. Rather than just show your homescreen (with your nice live wallpaper running =) ) with the lockpattern or drag-to-unlock on top, you get to pick from a selection of static images. While I'm sure I could work around this (put a transparent png or something), I found it annoying...

-Web browsing is weird... and I don't mean just in the stock browser, but apparently in a variety of browsers as well. Now, I preface this by saying that I'm a web-browsing fiend on the phone. I do 95% of web browsing on my phone, everything from ordering pizza to reading the news, and MOBILE versions of websites are like spit in my eye and one of the fastest ways to piss me off. I need the full real deal. That said, I probably use web browsers a little differently than most. There seems to be some systematic tweaking in ICS as to how it handles browsing in general, regardless of the specific web browsing app used. I found it significantly inferior to GB browsing. First off, auto-text wrapping doesn't work. It's just disabled somehow. You can set the browser to open a page with the text aligned such that when double tap it will zoom to the width of the text, but when you zoom in or out, the text will not re-wrap to fill the screen. So if you don't want to scroll left or right to read, you're stuck at the width you were given when you first loaded that screen. It's very strange to me that they decided to do it this way given how quickly and easily GB seems to handle text-wrapping. And this wasn't just in ICS stock browser. Dolphin did the same thing as well as Boat browser- no auto text wrapping. On a rare occasion, if you pinch to zoom in and then double tap text, it would re-adjust to the width of the screen, but then double tapping sometimes would zoom back out instead (what it normally would do on GB), so I wasn't ever really quite sure if I was going to get nicely adjusted text or go back to fully zoomed out. Frustrating...

Furthermore, zooming in and out did not work as well. In ICS (at least in this leak) it seems if you zoom out, the surrounding image has to reload, whereas in GB it stays cached. It was fairly fast at reloading, but still, I don't know why it couldn't just stay, the way it does in GB. Again, this was on multiple web browsers, all of which performed better on GB.

-Overall, I'm fairly convinced the ICS leak is not quite 100% finished... Besides that, there's just a general sense of glitchiness (screen response was not as reliable as on GB, in particular when Swyping or drawing in programs, I could see the lines stray from my finger path at random on occasion). CM9 may not have these problems, but until they fix the random blue flashes, I'm gonna stick with stock GB and HONO's kernel, just my humble opinion =)