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IceCream Pureness v3 Review

For review of earlier versions of Icecream Pureness v2.3 go here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32204294&postcount=27

IceCream Pureness v3 Review

LOOK & FEEL

The launcher on the ROM is xperia home v4 by serjar and it looks good as usual. the icons have been modified to give the ROM a unique look. I feel like the dpi has been changed coz everything looks just a little bit smaller ( plz coorect me if im wrong or blind). The 4 x 4 app drawer is also the same and it still keeps rearranging itself out of alphabetic for some reason. Many icon packs are available to enhance the look of the ROM. it has its own unique look and I really like it. the notification bar is little AOSPish which u can see In the screen shots. U can see there that the notification panel have quick settings and a button for recent apps next to next to the date. The lock screen is the normal wave lockscreen. Live wallpapers are enabled and widget picker is there too. The gallery used in this ROM is quickpic, even though it dosent look as cool as the NXT Album it is very fast. All the basic apps are available including a nice file explorer. Settings menu is not themed and there is nice ‘pureness advanced setting’ section where u can change the notification toggles, options in the power menu ( wether u want options like reboot into recovery etc is upto u), onscreen navigation buttons, developer options and overclock tool which is basically no frills cpu control. Nice ! the keyboard is xperia black keyboard, it looks good but I didn’t find the option to change the color or layout. In many ROMs I did notice the gesture typing just dosent work sometimes but I found no such prob here. Also the hardware keyboard works perfectly including the sym button. The camera is the same sucky ics xperia camera and I always get dark shots. But the camera app does load up quickly and shutter speed is alright.

I did not face an problems or bugs while or just after flashing the ROM. but u do have the option to add google now which works perfectly.u can also add small apps which imho has no use but does make u feel like a boss. I prefer the larger multitasking windows in recent apps.

A tiny bug is that an icon or to in the dock gets stretched while in landscape mode. Nothing huge but I use my fone in portrait a lot coz of the keyboard so I noticed it. also I couldn’t reject incoming calls in landscape coz the answer reject bar was half out of view.

PERFORMANCE

Performance is zippy! Swiping between homescreens is smooth and it never had any lag for me, though on a certain screen with many widgets it takes like 0.1 secs more to swipe to. After open many heavy apps the launcher was pushed out of the memory and apps and widgets took a second to load up. But as I kept using the ROM this problem completely dossapeard. I guess it needed time to settle. The specialtiy of Pureness ROMs according to me is how fast applications load up. Its easily amongst the fastest ROMs in terms of time taken for apps to start up. If you are multi tasking between 3-4 light apps like whatsapp fb and xda , the switch is instantaneous! Multi tasking is also fast, it takes just a sec for the recent windows list to open up. Never had to kill my apps to get back speed, memory managent is really good. Overall the ROM feels good, scrolling in the browser feels nice and smooth. There is something wrong with the app drawer in xperia coz I always accidently keep opening apps while scrolling, the problem is present here too. Now , playing temple run wasn’t the best experience, when I had many apps running in the background 6 out of 10 times the accelerometer gave up on me in the game, also sometimes a few swipes don’t get registered and we all know how slippery the temple floors are. I closed all recent apps and the performance was a little better but I wouldn’t recommend this to you if u are a gamer.

Other than that the ROM is very stable and I didn’t experience any force closes or hang-ups.

BATTERY LIFE

On standby with wifi connected the battery drain was 1.14% per hour. And an moderate usage throughout the day I lasted a total of 22 hours (including the hours it was on stand by) with screen on for 4hrs and 45 mins. This is really good. Its mostly coz of the MESA 2.0 I think. This is quite an improvement from the pureness v2.3 and mesa 1.8 combonation :good:

BENCHMARKS

Quadrant : 1397

Antutu : 3383

Try out the ROM ourselves here and thank developer sandy7 for the amazing ROM and great support!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852916

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