[Nexus S 4G Android Development] dscatto:
Well, Evol4g I've been running this ROM through the ringer & it's not holding up so well for me. Before I get bashed all to hell from everyone, I'm not saying it's a bad ROM! I'm just giving my review of it based on how it's working out for ME on MY phone. Everyone's will act differently. Evol is looking for feedback & I'm giving mine. Ok, on to the review.

First issue, the GPS is not working so well for me. Every time I restart my phone the GPS gets reset to the 'off' position & when you go into settings, location services, the 'GPS satellites' option is always unchecked by default. This happens after every reboot. Here's an example of the problem: I was heading somewhere this morning & I was using Google Navigation, while also listening to some music using Play Music (this has been giving me issues as well, but more on that later), & the songs were on my phone, & at first it was working, but then all of a sudden it told it was searching for satellites. I thought I was just in a bad area at first, but it kept on for about 10min. I really didn't know where I was going, so I pulled over to check it out & found out the GPS toggle had put itself in the 'off' position, so I turned it back on & restarted Google Nav. A notification box then popped up to let know that the 'GPS satellites' option was also unchecked, which is weird because I had it checked. Any who, I checked it back on & went back to Google Nav & after another good 10min of waiting it still couldn't find satellites. I decided to drive for a bit, hoping that might help, but another 10min of driving it was still searching. I pulled back over, rebooted phone, turned GPS 'on' in both the notification pull-down & in settings, started Google Nav back up &, again, searching for satellites. Waited for 10min & nothing. So, I just had to use Google maps to get directions, but even then the accuracy of the directions were ok because the radius was so large. I also noticed that the GPS would turn itself off when I used Endomondo Pro for my runs. Not sure what's going on with it.

Next issue is Google Music, or Play Music. The only thing here is that the playlists get messed up. By this, I mean that when I select one of my playlist from the home screen & then while in that playlist click on the 'list' icon/button (that's what I call it), to get to the different songs you have in that playlist, it brings up a bunch of songs that I do not have in that playlist & I have no idea where it gets these songs from. I mean, they are songs that I have, but they aren't part of that playlist...some might be, because I have the same song in multiple playlists, but most of them aren't. I went to the Play Music app & deleted data, put the music on my device again, & that seemed to fix it. However, today the playlist are getting weird again. Now, the weird playlist thing when trying to change to a different song in that playlist while listening to a song from that playlist. If I go back to the main Play Music screen & click on that same playlist, the song selection will be correct. I know, it's weird.

Last issue, this ROM, as I feared, isn't multitasking so well. This is especially true when trying to do things & use Chrome. For instance, me & my brother were out & about yesterday, cruising around in my car & listening to music on Play Music. He wanted to look something up, so he went on my phone, opened up Chrome & waited for it to pop up...& waited some more...& waited some more. It finally got to where he could type what he wanted to look up. He typed in what he wanted to find & clicked search & waited. Waited some more...& it popped up. Not so bad. He pushed & held the home button to go to the recent apps screen to click back over to Play Music, which was still running, to change the song & clicked on Play Music. It slowly switched over, he clicked the 'next track' button & waited...& waited...& waited...(just a little background info here: after clicking on Play Music from the recent apps menu, it did change to the Play Music app, but the album cover hadn't loaded before he clicked the 'next track' button.) It was just having a hard time switching between multiple things. Music, browsing, using the calculator, navigation, maps, etc. I know Chrome is kind of resource intense, but even today when I was having my GPS trouble. I was using Play Music while using Google Nav & it was slow switching between the two. Even just turning the screen on to use the lock screen controls for Play Music was slow.

Here's what I did to try to fix these issues, aside from what I said in the paragraphs above. Fixed permissions, rebooted system ui, flashed a different kernel (Matrix v22, not his latest for JB), I redownloaded the ROM & GAPPs. Wiped everything, reflashed ROM, then GAPPs, & rebooted to system. I tried different combinations of these steps, etc, etc, etc. No, luck. However, after doing fresh installs it runs fine for a bit & then starts to mess up. I don't have time to do fresh installs or restores of backups all the time, lol! I've never done a logcat before, but I remember reading about 'alogcat' earlier in this thread & I made this one. I hope it goes back far enough from today to show the issues. I tried to look through it myself, but I have no idea what I'm looking for.

When I'm just doing single tasks - ie: listening to Play Music, making a phone call, playing a game, etc - it works very well. I think I had one instance of a missed call while I was doing something else on my phone, where I heard the ring of an incoming call & the screen didn't fully switch over in time for me to answer it, but that was it. I didn't have it happen again. I hope this helps you Evol4g. I do like this ROM & the boot up animation! lol! Once again, I'm not bashing!