[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] automaddux:
I have a confession to make to you.

Cyan, I cheated on you... And it wasn't pretty. I'm so sorry but I thought that the grass was greener on the other side and as it turns out, those other roms only held false hopes. They were all dressed up in lacy red lingerie, with their big boobs all hanging out but inside they were empty and unstable.

Let me explain what happened and maybe you will understand and hopefully forgive me for my transgression.( too much drama?)

(not yet? ok)

So I bought the GNex on Verizon the day it came out and went straight home to unlock/root it. Despite all the negative opinions I read, at first, I was really happy with it. It was the beginning of a crackflash addiction that has lasted for almost two years. Since then, I've flashed every rom out there, and there were some that I really liked.

v.4.0 (ics) was like the girl next door that was a little nerdy and homely looking so you didn't pay much attention to then one day you see her in Kroger (or whatever your local grocer is called) and she's all grown up and she's dropped dead sexy but still in that nerdy looking way with like glasses and everything. It offered a lot of new things and the things devs were doing to get the best user experience out of their roms gave me hope that I wouldn't have to buy a new phone for a while (cuz frankly, phones are way too damn expensive). And I really liked my phone and showing off to my envious *iphone friends what my phone can do.

Then came Jelly Bean.

I thought at first that I should go back to stock and wait for Verizon to release it but that is like waiting for that girl next door to become legal. so I went with one of the first releases from one of the major roms (I won't name any names) and at first everything looked okay.

I should back up a sec,

One of the major flaws in the VGNex is the radios and from the start it was plagued with issues as I'm sure most people know. So one of the reasons I like being rooted is that when a new radio is released I could try it out and see if it worked for me. Eventually, Verizon or somebody solved that issue and my phone was okay being on stock. However, after JB was released, I noticed that pretty much any rom I was running I would have tons of issues, mostly related to my network signal or Wifi or both. sometimes GPS was non-existent, and other times it was bluetooth.

That is until I found Cyan.

Cyanogen you are the greatest thing that ever happened to my phone. I started using your rom a little over a month ago ( which is the longest I've ever ran a rom) and it's weird because I didn't like you all that much when I first tried you out on my original Dinc. You never are feature packed and so I thought that was a negative. How naive i was back then.

Since that time I have been extremely pleased with how my phone behaves and I really thought I found the one. Days would go by and I wouldn't even get on XDA or Rootzwiki to check if there were any updates or anything I might be interested in trying.

Everything worked and other than a few occurrences where I noticed a little lag which was fixed by wiping chache/dalvik, I never noticed anything that prompted me to look outside our relationship. But I do have wandering eyes and I started to notice other roms that had some pretty cool features and I thought that maybe I could look and not touch. But we all know how hard it is to navigate the adulterous waters.

I should say that I'm not trying to bash other roms. I honestly think that maybe it is just the 'one' phone I got and it only works on stock and Cyanogen, Which I admit, would be a weird flaw to have in a phone. Or maybe I just don't know what I'm doing.

Maybe there was a memo that I overlooked.

All I know is that the last few days without you have been a whirlpool of frustration and desperation. I almost cried earlier when I pulled my phone out and it wouldn't power off because the last 24 hours it was constantly freezing up on me. I can't stand not having GPS or have it only work sometimes because it always seems the times I need it to work it wants to act up and make my phone look like a old man that needs Viagra. The signal is super frustrating too because not only does it not want to connect to anything when I need it but it's also a huge battery drain.

It makes me regret ever making that horrible decision to hurt you. I'm sorry I betrayed your trust in me. I never want to relive those horrible days again. The shame and guilt was... (okay, was that too much? alright.)

The point is, Thank you Cyan for being a true dependable light that I can count on, no matter what happens. And I hope that when I do upgrade my phone it's on one that you are supporting , or else I might just stay with this one until death does us part. (now, just stop it)

Thanks for listening and I hope this funny little story doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. I don't want to make anyone think that other roms aren't good or stable. My experience is exactly that so it might be a different experience for someone else. I also want to thank all the devs out there for making my half-baked/Verizon Nexus as fun as it could be without actually being a true Nexus device.