[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr Goodvibes:
I am still impressed with what you can do with an XPERIA X10i and an infinite number of monkeys. :silly:

CM10 v5.1

I did a clean install of CM10(scritch007) with v5.1 ROM and was able to installed the XPERIA Home launcher and the Weather Widget.

I installed the XPERIA T mod'd XPERIA Home launcher which provides a raft of options along with home and application screens with modifiable columns/rows. (number of application icons that can be placed on a screen).

Good Points:

Jelly Bean with good support and improvements on CPU performance in many areas.

Many additional features not seen in the Stock GB environment. (screen capture and etc)

Considerations

No HW encoding for 720p mkv videos and some camera issues.

Support issues with some Google Play Store applications when using Android v4.1.2

Some CPU based benchmarks (Geek Bench 2) do not see the improvements and score less than an overclock GB environment.

DonutHD v2,3

I did a clean install of DonutHD v2.3 with the pre-installed XPERIA Home launcher I was able to add the Weather Widget.

DonutHD v2.3 has the modifiable home and application screens where one can change the number of columns and rows on the screen.

I also installed DooMKernel v6 successfully on the DonutHD ROM v2.3.

Good Points:

GB v2.3.3 with VERY clean system app environment leading to good memory use and good XPERIA Home launcher

Considerations

Stock Music player lacks equalizer and other advance features from later phones not yet filtered down to the ROM.

Stock GB v2,3 with DooMKernel v6

Dropping back to the stock GB v2.3.3, I installed the XPERIA S mod'd Home launcher pack which includes additional support for other applications and features. XPERIA Music player with equalizer for example...and etc.

Noted that now the battery status does display applications beyond the core display items.

Installed DooMKernel v6 and everything was still seen to be working.

Built out the operational environment and with Weather Widget active, no functions were lost which I required in my environment.

Good Points:

XPERIA S mod'd Home launcher with Weather Widget and many features from later phones

Considerations

Stock GB v2.3.3 so you'll have to clean the system app environment and modify the system yourself to get what DonutHD already gives you.

XPERIA S Mod'd XPERIA Home Launcher adds some bulk which you have to pare down yourself. This version of the Home Launcher does not support configurable column/row screens.

Summary.

After all that I'm almost back to my initial system configuration with the addition of the XPERIA S mod'd home launcher and Weather widget.

GB v2.3

DooMKernel v6 @ 1.152GHz

XPERIA S Mod'd Home Launcher with enhanced default applications

Weather Widget.

Battery stats with applications showing battery use.

140MB Free memory when background processes are purged.

This is just an indicator as the system by it's nature will re-populate memory (RAM) with other apps, until it's max threshold before swapping is reached again.

AnTuTu Benchmark score: 2936 @ 1.190GHz

720p mkv movies playing with HW encoding streamed from a NAS with no lag. Using MX Player Pro and BSPlayer.

OpenVPN client

PPTP client

Samba Filesharing

CIFS remote folders mounted locally

Encrypted files remotely access from the NAS via CIFS

All Good. Now happy..... I think....at least for a few weeks.