[Galaxy S III Android Development] Paiong:
Hey Kryten, just thought I'd write a little bit about v17 beta.

Flashed this last night (I have been using Ultimarom v12.1 all this time!). Very smooth and fast, really liking it. There hasn't been much problems for me really but I'll point out a few things that I've noticed (these may just be my own mistakes and not anything wrong with v17 beta):

-During installation, I chose Samsung phone/contacts and messenger - I chose the holo light theme. Only Messenger was holo light (white) whilst the phone/contacts were both dark. I reflashed it (didn't bother with super wiping again since I had done it already) and chose holo dark for everything to keep consistent. I noticed that the messenger bubble style 1 isn't the blue/yellow boxes anymore, just plain black or white depending on what I selected during installation (holo dark or holo white). The other bubble colour options are still there and working.

-When I get a message from WhatsApp whilst my screen is off, I have it so that it wakes the screen with the little message box from the app - this usually wakes up with the message and turns off again in like 1-2 seconds. However, on v17 beta, I noticed that once WhatsApp wakes it up with this message notification, the screen doesn't turn off straightaway (it just stays on until it times itself out due to the phone's screen timeout settings).

-I updated GravityBox to get it working (it wouldn't open before that). I started using the options to tweak status/quick settings but everything reset to default and lost all settings once I rebooted. I had to untick it in xposed modules, clear the data, reboot phone, enable it again in modules, reboot and start afresh with it (think I just had to clear all the data from the previous version prior to update/start with clean slate). It's now working properly, only thing that I noticed was when I selected the option to "override default tile behaviour" (so that it swaps touch/long touch behaviour) - for the Auto-Rotate quicksetting, when I click it, it crashes the system UI. Didn't know why, the other quicksetting tiles working perfectly, so I went back into GB and unticked the option for Auto-Rotate in Override Default Tile Behaviour (but left the others ticked) and now it works perfectly! (as in, no need to long-touch to change setting). Maybe it was because of what the Auto-Rotate was left on before I changed the setting in GB? no idea. Might be a GB problem rather than ultimarom?

-Within Ultimarom settings, in lockscreen settings - the Disable AOSP Lockscreen option doesn't seem to do anything (I don't get the ripples/light effect lockscreen).

That's all I've noticed so far - nothing major enough to mess with my use of the rom/phone. Apart from those, everything else seems to be working fine. I've noticed things like H+ missing, but H is there (though this has already been mentioned by someone else). I also noticed how little Samsung there is in this phone! e.g. no S memo, no touchwiz launcher, no logging into Samsung account when starting up for the first time? Doesn't bother me too much (although S Memo was kinda nice). Overall, really liking the purer AOSP feel and look. Will be using this until V17 Final gets released.

ALSO! GravityBox seems to crash when I first select it, then I have to just open it again and it opens fine. Doesn't happen all the tiime, but more times than not (since I've tweaked my settings on there anyway). Might be a GB thing.

Another addition: when I get missed phone calls or unread text messages, there is no number/badge next to the icons. I cleared the badgecounter in apps, still nothing - I do get the notification in the bar but glancing at the messenger and phone icons, no badge count to indicate missed calls/unread messages. Hope this makes sense. Also, this may be me nitpicking, but I noticed that the phone reception is not as good, kinda goes to E a lot and bars keep going up and down, but haven't had any calling problems though. Maybe it's nothing.

Another one: pulling down quicktiles menu, if I click on my profile, it tries to load contacts but can't and crashes contacts. Also within contacts, if someone has multiple phone numbers, the option to set one as default is now gone.

Another one: when I get text message, in the notification panel, it just says new message, rather than the name of the person texting and preview of what the text says. Doesn't happen for any other app, just messenger/text.