[General Questions and Answers] MU2MARC:
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Hi,

I flashed to the: OpenSensation2 Cyanogen Mod, using instructions on this page :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2002883&highlight=phone+calls

PHONE: HTC Sensation.

ANDROID VERSION: 4.1.2

KERNEL: 3.0.52 Jelly-g0707900-dirtybruce@Z68X #1

CYANOGEN MOD: 10-20121207-Bruce2728-pyramid

BUILD DATE: Fri Dec 7 09:40:44 GMT 2012

BUILD #: cm-pyramid-userdebug 4.1.2 JZ054K eng.bruce.20121207,093835 test-keys

Flash was good and props to Bruce, just not enough posts to thank him yet. I did have some questions relative to this ROM but cannot ask it in the relevant forum. These Questions are below :

ISSUES: ( In order of severity/importance )

1) CALL ISSUES:

Both incoming and outgoing calls, randomly occuring eg

Incoming call and i cannot hear the other party just dead air, requires I call them back.

Outgoing call and the other party cannot hear me, requires I call them back.

Occurence: approximately 10-20% of calls.

2) GPS ISSUES:

Google Maps takes forever to get a lock, sometimes not at all. Applied GPS Fastfix, made no difference. GPS Tester sometimes reports a lock with 5 plus sattelites and Google Maps will still not get a location lock stays on searching for GPS.

NOTE: If the GPS does lock, invoking Google Maps Navigation App will hardlock the phone requiring battery removal to reboot.

3) CAMERA ISSUES:

Occasionally camera will lock up after shooting a picture and the picture is not saved.

NOTE: The JB Camera Sucks anyway...it is truly awful. The HTC Stock ICS Camera puts it to shame.

4) MMS ISSUES:

It can take up to an hour to receive an incoming MMS, a picture for example.

5) GMAIL SYNC:

Gmail sync is broken, requires a manual sync and even then it will not sync correctly, emails will show also about an hour after they have been sent same as MMS.

6) PROJECT BUTTER:

Uh yeah......OK, I'm not sure what the fuss is about, I see no improvement at all over stock ICS. I'm not comparing to iphone because I simply don't care about Apple, But I will compare to Windows Phones, you want to see how smooth a phone GUI should be checkout a new windows phone, it is night and day.

OVERALL THOUGHTS:

I am reminded of the days I used to mess about with LINUX, I used OPENSUSE years ago, nice operating system if you were a complete geek, there were tons of LINUX distros available, each one claiming an advantage over the other but the bottom line was useability for the average user, looks and a crash-proof GUI for NOOBS.

There is a reason LINUX does not dominate the PC OS market, opensource software is not necessarily a market driven model, it is nerd driven and does not represent a useful product for most of the sheep out there.

Flashing custom Android ROMS is exactly the same, based on my NOOB ROM Flashing experience above, tons of ROMS, not one of them completely stable and the end result is a phone with a negative user experience and an evolving kernel that caters not to the market but to those geeks patient enough to want to F with the minutae of an evolving OS and then not necessarily in tune with Market demands.

CONCLUSION:

I flashed my ROM, to check out Jellbean's Buttery smoothness.

RESULT:

Jellybean is neither Buttery or Smoother than the stock ICS ROM at least on the HTC Sensation on the above listed ROM and my phone is now not even able to function as a phone, I cannot recommend a NOOB flash anything other than their girlfriend or wife, stay with stock, enjoy a working phone and read these forums if you want a nerdgasm just leave your phone well alone.

NEXT STEP....

Spend the next 2-4 hours of my existence trying to get my phone back to stock ICS when it worked.

That Is All.....Carry On.