[Thunderbolt Android Development] RetributionSK:
Experienced Rommer

So I wanted to add a bit of a review in hopes of helping. I am fairly experienced, got the OG droid a couple days after launch, rooted that after the first easy to follow tutorial and been android and rom obsessed ever since

I use 4EXT recovery, wiped Dalvik/Cache and system manually direct from recovery not from any app or using a script (such as superwipe.zip) Call me old fashioned. I am running .19 radios and I have yet to "fix permissions"

So I used this rom on my old Bolt for 48 hours of up time before I rebooted for the first time. So far I am absolutely in love, this will hold me over til the next nexus comes out and drops to a reasonable price(I am grandfathered in to unlimited and they can pry that from my cold dead fingers) Anyhow I didnt come here to talk about what works I came here to talk about what doesn't and made mental notes of what others have said as well so I will cover my experience in that area.

Data Drop: I have noticed that this seems to be more of a hand off issue then anything else, I live in a heavily saturated 4G area and for the most part my data stays locked and constant. However I did notice that if I end up in a 3g area, the signal bar will show 3g and no data, a simple toggle of airplane mode will bring it right back. I also noticed that if I am in a weak signal area with just 3g where I lose the signal completely and regain the signal it will be the same situation, a simple toggle of airplane mode brings data right back. I also noticed data doesn't seem to like to stick around when the battery is low, or maybe it doesn't link Pandora, but anytime I try to stream Pandora with less then 15% it always seems to cut out after a few songs, I gotta test this more.....Might Be the area now that I think about it ...rambles off like an old coot

Browser: I am using the stock browser and for the most part it works just fine, however find scrolling to be a choppy and laggy affair, doesn't bother me much but I thought I would mention it.

White Screen in Facebook: I have noticed this mentioned a couple times, along with the gmail app, I have only experienced it with facebook and clearing it from memory seems to fix it *by long pressing home* sometimes I have to do it twice.

SMS Keyboard: I have noticed this in other roms(with diffrent thunderbolts so probably not hardware). Occasionally if I am sending text messages back and forth to another person occasionally they keyboard will stop entering text into the message field. I usually have to back out and re enter the thread for the keyboard to work again, this is with both stock and Swiftkey3. drives me bonkers

GPS: I have not had GPS issues with this rom, its a little slow to lock but works just fine. I have noticed alot of "fixes" to this issue but I think what it really comes down to is re flashing the rom, I think something gets lost in the install that fubars it all up. Whenever I have a rom where GPS doesn't work and I re flash it (none of that flashing a sense rom and getting a lock nonsense) it will work the second time around, one time it took me 3 tries. Strictly one mans story I know, but for example I can nandroid a rom with perfectly working gps install something else and re install my back up and gps wont work, sometimes re flashing the back up will work, sometimes I just have to start over, its a bizarre bug thats been plaguing the thunderbolt since its arrival.

Soft key back light: I didn't really notice before but the back lights on the soft keys weren't working, I usually set my brightness manually to 25%( never need it brighter then that 95% of the time) I noticed that someone posted that turning on auto brightness got his working, after playing around with my phone I noticed that using the brightness toggle in the power widget of the task manager got mine to work as well (not necessarily auto brightness). After several attempts to get the back light to stop working to replicate the issue I tried simply rebooting the device and the back light stopped working till I hit the toggle again or adjusted the brightness manually. However by leaving auto brightness on the back light would work after reboot. Strange little bug

Random Reboots: I have had exactly 0 random reboots.

Lock Screen Targets: I saw a couple posts about targets not saving so I tried it out on my device, saves just fine, sticks after reboot

If there is anything I haven't mention that anyone is curious about its probably cause i never use that feature (blue tooth), or havent yet used it(wifi tether). Or I just forgot to mention it (CRS).

All and all this rom is the greatest thing to be on my TB ever, battery life is reasonable ( using stock battery) and everything I expect to work mostly works. a HUGE thank you to Liquid and Jester, a well deserved donation will come from me in the near future.