[Vibrant Android Development] tenantrep:
CM10 thoughts

First, let me express my undying gratitude to those who are willing to juggle weddings, childbirth and I am sure nagging spouses to continue to make the Vibrant not only viable, but cutting edge!! My sincere Congratulations and Best Wishes to All! Specifically, I am of course referring to CM10 and Jelly Bean 4.1.1. Since mid-July ya'll have brought an alpha all the way to Version 8. My experience has been to root, brick, unroot and start over and over again with my my two Vibrants from Eclair to ICS. I am currently running JB V2 as both 7 & 8 refuse to flash with multiple errors on my Devil flavor recovery (is there a better version to use as Red is really not my color). I carefully checked the MD5 and it checks out digit for digit. I also have tried wiping every cache and factory reset option I can find. Is there a method to completely format the internal sd partition to start from scratch? Did not see a need to repartition anything at this point, but open to suggestion. I have noticed that all downloads DCIM files and the like are still there - some from Aug 2010 at purchase - so believe a good cleaning could help.

As for my time with Jelly Bean, I offer the following as MY obervations and would love to hear if there have been others to find the same:

1. for some reason my Volume UP/DOWN directions are reversed - including in recovery - not a big deal, and might not even be a bug

2. Also my 4 soft touch keys seem to be bonkers - Menu seems to still be Menu, but Home is now Back and Back is Home - Search sometimes works and other times gives previous programs. I know JB is based on the newer 3 button navigation, could this be a reason?

3. Sound - this is odd, there is no sound until you insert the wired headset and you get sound for a couple of seconds and then it disappears

4. Ringtones - only option was Silent - now that is a killer ringtone! Searched into the files and found System\Media\Sounds\Ringtones and there were 4 ringtones, but they don't show up in the normal Setting routine. Was able to download Zedge to at least capture and successfully dl and test ringtones

5. Launcher - using the default launcher (guess Samsung) works fine and tried to run Apex but get FC issue everytime.

6. Settings - don't have the usual pull down choices with toggle, just single Settings icon and stairsetp icon that clears the list of email, updates, etc and returns to Home screen. Other Settings such as launcher and customized things in ICS I guess are yet to come

7. Google Now - or actually Search is working great, but without any audio - likely caused by my problem above. Google Now fired up once, asked me to turn it on and has disappeared. No idea why I cannot access it again - maybe newer builds will fix

8. Reboot - only option is Power Off or Airplane Mode - no Reboot or Recovery option

9. GPS - will not lock, but then that is nothing new.

10. Phone - outgoing calls work fine even thru Bluebooth - Incoming gives ring and chance to answer, but then audio is messed up to point you have to just return their call to be successful

I know this is an ALPHA and please don't understand I am not complaining, just did not see a location for feedback. My only real gripe is that my phone will not react to the usual method of both Vols and Power to get to Recovery - only way to get there is ROM Manager and Reboot to Recovery option - but that might hardware rather than a ROM issue. My only goal is to understand if the issues above are mine alone or others have experienced similar issues. I look forward to the beta and even final JB roms and any feedback or flames you can muster. Thanks again.

JIM in FLA