[Xoom General] dizzy33:
Hello,

I just would like to share my experience of moving from the stock 4.1.2 Jelly Bean to the CM10 release, mostly for people who are still using stock 4.1.2 because I couldn't find such a thread before jumping to CM10.

I installed the 5th November nightly release of CM10 as the more recent ones (including the "stable" release) have an annoying problem : the Play Store reports some incompatibilities with apps which were working fine with the stock 4.1.2. It seems that this problem is due to the lack of free memory with the newest CM10 releases ...

The 11/05 CM10 was the last one with no Play Store problems, you can download it here for the Wingray :

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2383656/cm-10-20121105-NIGHTLY-wingray.zip

EDIT : on the 6th December, I updated my Xoom from the 11/05 nightly to the 12/05 nightly, and so far I still didn't have the Play Store compatibility issue, which means the problem has been solved in between these two releases ...

Performances :

I must admit that I didn't think it was possible that a custom ROM was better optimized than the one made by Google itself ...

I was very happy with the fluidity of the stock 4.1.2, but when I used CM10 for the first time, I tried some websites known to be a bit laggy with the stock browser, and they were just close to perfect about fluidity with CM10 ! I couldn't find a laggy website with stock browser yet ... These tests were not involving overclocking.

So I then ran Quadrant and had a score of 2800, where I had 1900 with stock 4.1.2 ... !

I then overclocked the Xoom to 1,5 GHZ, and Quadrant reported a score of 4100, about equal to the Transformer Prime !

I don't really play with my Xoom but I tried to play to GTA III, and when overclocked, compared to the stock 4.1.2, I could put a lot more graphical details with a better fluidity. I really felt like using a whole new device. But most of the time I don't use overclocking as I want to save my battery life, and the overall fluidity of the Xoom running CM10 at 1GHz is very good.

A few people reported they found a performances increase with the very last nightly release. However, as it still have some compatibility problems with the Play Store, I will not jump on it.

I don't know if Cyanogen will try to solve this incompatibility issue as it maybe related to the Gapps taking too much storage space, and Cyanogen does not support Gapps ...

Updates :

I choosed a Cyanogen rom (instead of EOS) because with this one you can easily update to newer ROM release very easily, without the need to connect your Xoom to the PC, and without loosing datas : CM10 includes an update manager which proceeds just like an official Google OTA ! That's just perfect to me, I'm not sure if this does also exist on EOS, I couldn't find any informations about this.

So I have the feeling that my Xoom is still supported and updated, which is very good. Thanks a million to Cyanogen team !

Bugs :

I couldn't find bugs yet on the 11/05 release, I just had an unexpected reboot the very first time I used it, only after 5 minutes of use. Since then, I never had this problem again (3 days with no reboots for now).

Features :

I didn't try all of them yet, but there are plenty of cool features :

- overclocking ability with multiple policies possible to save battery life for exemple, or for the best performances all the time.

- other performances tweaks about RAM like "KSM" use, and some other parameters which allow better performances but lowering the battery life.

- root of course !

- the ability to light the charging LED, even when your Xoom is powered on.

- many many others, some I didn't tried/discovered yet.

So I am very happy now with CM10, and I would like to thanks Cyanogen again about this excellent work !

I would recommand to any stock 4.1.2 users to jump on to CM10, the Xoom will just be running better then !

Here is the link which explains how to jump to a Cyanogen ROM :

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Mo...de#Installing_the_ClockworkMod_Recovery_Image

Have fun !