[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Smultronic v5

Smultronic v5

LOOK AND FEEL

The launcher on this ROM is xperia launcher. The app drawer is 4 x 4 with options in the bottom. The notification bar is AOSP styled. Theres no am pm indicator for the clock. The battery does not show the battery percentage. The notification panel has the normal toggles. Next to the date and time is the settings shortcut and next to that to is recent apps shortcut. The intresting part here is that tapping the recent apps icon in the notification panel does not open the normal ICS recent apps menu, instead we get the gingerbread style recent apps menu, which is a pretty quick way to switch apps even though its not so pretty. The lockscreen is the sony styled, nothing special here. The widget picker is gingerbread style, you cant see the actual widget like u can in ICS. Live wallpapers are enabled. The preinstalled apps include torch, a separate app for clock and alarm, barcode scanner, 3dcamera and album, root explorer, script manager, and the usual stuff. Both xperia gallery and the new nxt album gallery are available for some reason. There is practically no theming here, everything is pure xperia, but a few UI elements from gingerbread have been included. Weather and note widget are preinstalled. The power menu has only 3 options- power off and airplane mode and toggles for notification volume. The minimum brightness of the ROM coudve been a little darker but that’s fine. Nothing special in the camera, shutter speed is ok. The keyboard here is xperia keyboard with white keys on light gray background ( my favourite :p), no options to change that in here. It works well too on the rom. xLoud works well like it should and boosts the speaker output. Alarms work well too.

Found a couple of problems in landscape. Almost the whole last row is not visible in the app drawer in landscape mode. But u can easily reject calls in landscape 

Flashing the rom includes running a script at first boot. Had to ask around cz im a noob but other than this everything is same as usual. One point to note here is that the ROM is overclocked to 1.4ghz by default. I brought it back to 1ghz for testing purposes to keep the reviews even. Also the script reduces the space taken by apps on internal memory of phone.

PERFORMANCE :

Swiping through homescreens is very fluid and smooth. The time it takes to open an app is negligible. Even multitasking is really fast. Opening the recent apps menu takes no time and switching between apps is speedy too, even when many apps are open. Overall speed is a little inconsistent as there time when the phone suddenly dosent work as it normally is , this usually happen when a friend wants to play around with ur phone :p. the touchscreen can become a little unresponsive, but this rare yet annoying, coz it makes u tap stuff while scrolling. Temple is not fun to play on this ROM. the accelerometer dosent work for a while and might stop working in between, also the screen responsivity ( I invented the word, ur welcome) also decreases resulting in instant ROM and you will find it very fast and responsive. This is coz its been overclocked, u can keep it that way if you are getting the battery life that you need.

BATTERY LIFE

I had faced a problem with battery life while testing the earlier version of this ROM with MESA kernel, this time it did much better. On standby the drain was 1.5% per hour while connected to wifi. Testing the complete battery life was difficult because apps kept darining my battery. Facebook app that I always use was keeping my phone awake for some reason, this never happened before, so I suspect the script. But its working well now after I clear cache and data for the app. Overall the battery drain average.

BENCHMARKS

Quadrant : 1370

Antutu :3284

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1796272

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