[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Xperia ultimate HD 2.0 review

LOOK AND FEEL

Ultimate hd gives you many options in aroma but what seems to work and what I chose is xperia gx launcher. You also get performance options – for heavy multitasking( more free ram) , and gaming. I chose heavy multitasking cos apparently you wont ever see redraws again if you choose this. Yay. The icons are stock sony and we have a 4x4 app drawer. I guess it’s a limitation of the hardware of our devices but if we try to swiped too fast we end up clicking an icon. The app drawer and launcher both are very good in landscape too. The sony lockscreen work well. The proper widget picker is available, and so is the live wallpaper picker. The extra widgets I found were tools, clocks, no frills, reboot widget and the notes widget. Extra apps include 3d camera and gallery, es fileexplrorer ( chose in aroma), the nice clock app which includes stopwatch and timer, and that’s about it. u can choose what theme u want in aroma and I chose jellybean. Now my dialer has a really nice background to the numbers. And so does does my settings menu. We have ultimate hd advanced settings which include systemupdates (which don’t work for us yet), overclock tool (nofrills), notification toggle settings, onscreen navigation buttons. You the option to choose between various power menus. Check them out before u flash the one you want. I really like the notification bar coz it has the battery in % right next to the battery graphic indicator. It get really hard to read inside it sply on our small screens. Really like the new notification panel. On the top the time and date are clear and large next to which u have the clear all notifications button and the settings shortcut.the notifications are separated by cool blue lines. At the bottom we have a tab for quickpanel which includes a brightness slider. To the left we have three vertical dots that take us to the system ui preferences, and to the extreme right we have two columns of three vertical dots that is a shortcut to recent apps list. I must say this is a much faster way to access recent apps. The camera is also stock sony , same crappiness. The xperia keyboard is nice and works really well. Alarms work well. Xloud feature is available but it dosent seem to have any effect on the output.

As usual in the landscape mode I coudnt answer calls. Other than that I dindnt find any problems with the ROM or while flashing it.

PERFORMANCE

So the performance is pretty good. Swiping through homescreens feels smooth(can get a lil stuttery after a while) but u do click icon by mistake while swiping, ive noticed it a little more on this ROM. and there are redraws, they don’t take a long time but after a bit of multitaskind if u hit the home button u will notice all the app icons and widgets load up again though it only takes a second. Apps open quite quickly no matter how many apps are open in recent apps. Switching between apps is fast but it take around 2 -3 secs for the recent apps list to open, it much faster if use the shortcut in the notification panel. This really makes switching through apps a lil cumbersome. Temple run is very playable. But ive noticed it works even better when u get rid of all ur recent apps. The accelerometer is unresponsive in the beginning but once the game is smooth it runs that way. Overall speed and responsiveness of the ROM is good , but still not the best. And the ROM is very stable and I dint experience any errors, except that whenever I uninstall an app it says some android process has been force closed. But that dosent matter at all.

BATTERY LIFE

On stand by I got an average of 1.1% - 1.55% per hour. Higher battery drain I noticed was coz of some wifi issue most probably coz largest amt of battery was taken by wifi that time. I could amanage to squeeze out around 4 hrs and 15 mins of screen on time which again is not bad at all, but not the best.

BENCHMARKS

Quadrant : 1382

Antutu : 3291

Be sure to check out the ROM here and thank stanlin salu and sandy7 for another awesome ROM , and thank original chef jader13254 too…

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