[HTC Desire S] thantos2024:
Okay guy, heres the situation as it stands at the minute.

When I started this rom it was intended to remain a pure sense lite rom, but as time has progressed there has become a bit of a split with users, there were those that loved it as a pure lite rom and wanted it to stay that way, and those that wanted to see it progress more towards a sense 4 rom, and I was stuck with the question of how to satisfy all users without compromising the integrity of the rom.

Then it hit me, why not offer both in a single download, after all strip away the htc stuff and you have andriod 4.0.4 regardless of whether or not it is sense full, or sense lite, the differences are little more than framework switches and apks, so with the right files there is no reason why you couln't allow people to choose what they wanted during install.

So I got to work and have spent the last fewe days doing nothing but sitting infront of my pc, going through frameworks etc setting it all together, and it works, it fact I found that with this technique I could also offer a hybrid version of sense lite/full with with no work at all so people really could have the ultimate choice on install, sense lite, hybrid sense or sense full, what more could you ask for.

BUT, here's the problem, the original sense 4 full rom I was using as a base, came from china and had several other devs work kanged into it which I worked hard to remove, some I completely removed myself, some the relevant devs had a look at the altered files and pointed out which code was left and how to remove it without breaking anything, nut unfortunately, one group of devs, despite the fact that all reference to their work had been completely removed from the rom as far as the end user went, and anything that might have been enabled from their work was 100% disabled flatout refused to allow me to use the rom as I felt there might have been a possibility that some of the dead code that no longer did anything might possibly have been theirs. I had hoped they might have done as others, had and at least asked to see the relevant file to first see if any of their code was actually left or not and perhaps point me to what need removing, but hey, christmas is coming up etc so I'm sure they just don't have anytime for any of that crap.

Now, I was just going to replace the files and carry on, meaning it would be a non issue, but then I restored beta 2.01, and god did it make me realize just how laggy the full version I was working on really felt. Honestly it was like I'd been driving a dump truck and then stepped into a zonda. It is that bad that there is no way I can in good conscience even consider releasing it as it stands, it just sucks.

Now it occurred to me that a good part of this is probably due to the fact that I have had to so heavily mess around with the framework, systemui, rosie etc, so I have binned it completely and done what I really should have done in the first place. I now have a completely clean rom with which to start from scratch and this will hopefully mean that I can get a much better end result from it that what I had previously. unfortunately this means it will be a few more days at least before I can get you the update I have promised but I hope you can understand my reasons why and know that it is purely to ensure that A: I no longer have to concern myself about mods someone else did containing other devs work. and much more importantly B: The end result will offer the best experience I can achieve for you as the end user.

OH, and as a little side note for anyone interested, in the android section under themes and apps, someone has posted a mod to enable sony's PSM on non certified devices and it works perfecly with this rom, having great fun playing lemmings again after all these years, you can find the thread at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1919574