[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Zoomer88:
So I'm on 0.5. Second day through. What can I say, great work RaymanFX and co.! Thank you guys. You're fantastic.

My impression after switching to this mod from stock ICS .55 (yeah, I know there were millions of those kind of posts, but every new page should sport at least one of those, am I right? :D)

Advantages when switching to OpenSEMC CM from stock:

1. Android 4.2.2 rules. I mean seriously. Customizable lock-screen rocks! Tons of subtle changes and enhancements!

2. Cyanogenmod's additional settings and preferences are extremely useful. Things like brightness adjustable via notification panel swiping, interface themes, performance settings - cool!

3. Rom is extremely stable for me (even though it's 0.5). No sudden crashes, video/audio playback works, camera works (touch focus FTW!), Wi-Fi works (thanks god I can at last set region to Europe and move to 13 channel which is absolutely clean! Stupid Sony!).

4. FPS in few games I was able to test is definitely higher. No placebo effect here. E.g. buggy blitz after latest update became rather laggy on the highest settings and stock rom. No such effect here! I bet this is thanks to the updated adreno drivers.

5. DSP manager is built in. I mean, really who are those people crying and begging for Xperia Xloud? Do you consider it to be some kind of magic? Just use DSP for built-in speaker and you're all set lol.

6. Overclocking! (Pew pew!)

7. Calling through a mobile connection is a lot more snappier. It connects faster and hangs up faster. Also on the stock rom I had this bug where when trying to call any phone number the phone will show "connecting" but never connects and then hangs up before connecting. No such behavior here.

Disadvantages:

1. Bugs do crop up (surprise lol) - e.g. theme manager crashes when applying a theme (it still successfully applies themes though), and GPS isn't working in 0.5, some people had reboots, etc. . Some of the functions are not implemented yet - e.g. autobrightness. But that's why we have 0.x version numbering, isn't it? :D I mean it is stable enough for everyday use. And that's only fifth release of the platform, existence of which is not even acknowledged by Sony nor we have proper drivers for it! Way to go team!

2. Battery drain. Yeah. Using intellidemand governor, gaming here and there, occasional facebook spamming and skype chatting plus one night of deepsleep for 6 hours and we're having 16 hours, 20 minutes and 22%. Yet this is absolutely ok for me haha.

3. Project butter. Yeah, that's weird. Actually it was hyped sooo much by Google so one of the major reasons for me to switch from stock ICS to Jelly was to test Project Butter. I'm not sure whether it is implemented fully on the current stage of development (from what I've read it actually is), but, uhm well Sony's ICS was more buttery smooth. Ya really. Scrolling in settings, FB client, app drawer and some of the apps are smooth enough but nothing fantastic compared to stock. The opening of the notification bar is laggy. Not hiccup-laggy but jittery laggy. As if it is low FPS or there are some problems with VSync (is there a VSync on mobile devices? :)). And it doesn't matter what's in background when I'm sliding down that bar - be it live wallpaper or static one. Or some chat window. Some other apps experience this too. And launcher's desktop scrolling too. Same behavior with Chrome. GOD it's laggy! Yet Opera Beta and built-in browser are ok. Also I've tried forcing GPU animation and leaving it off - to me it has no effect what so ever.

So either I'm blind or Sony did a very good job with ICS, or Project Butter was a marketing bs all together, or I was expecting too much from it, I dunno :)

Ok I'm done with my flow of thoughts and now you can kill me, ban me and delete my post! :) Thank you guys again for everything you're doing.