[Galaxy S III Android Development] JustArchi:
Hey guys.

First of all I'd like to thank you for using my rom, submitting opinions, kind words and even donations. I really appreciate it, even if I don't write it all the time.

But you also need to know that developing such rom is a pretty hard stuff I'd say. It's not like building clean cm but maintaining everything and trying to fix a problems with unknown root. Because of that I'm planning some changes, mostly in aroma to make it work better, freeze less often and actually provide better user experience than know. Both you and I know that going through all pages is more or less a pain and it should be simplified. We also know that freezing problem is often and it should be not.

I appreciate all your feedback and I'm planning to make some steps in order to make ArchiDroid even better in the future. As for today (and probably tomorrow) there's no point of releasing weekly update, because we're still on Temasek's V38 and changelog actually... doesn't have anything, just some misc updates. So yeah, instead I'll try to focus on rewriting aroma and trying to fix other problems which you may experience.

As for now:

a) No Keyboard / Ultra-Big Keyboard / Problems regarding Wi-Fi / Other strange issues on first boot - problem is caused by installing AD through external sd card. I don't know why, I don't know how but I suggest flashing from internal memory and eventually keeping external sd card ejected if problems will still appear. I just want to say that I'm installing AD from external card whole the time (usually with full wipe) and I do not have any issues or similar problems, so it's not a global problem, rather local one.

b) Drain - First of all make sure you have turned off scanning when wi-fi is off. You can change that in options of wi-fi, there should be an option turned on "scan even if wi-fi is off" or something like that (I have polish language so forgive me for not being specific). This is NOT a bug, this is intended feature implemented by Google in Android 4.3. In future I'm planning implementing a feature which disables that automatically through RunOnce but as for now I have no idea how to deal with it and also other things on my head (look above). Second problem may be attached to ultra drain by google services. I have no idea regarding this issue. It looks like a bug and it may be attached to location service provided by google. It's good to turn off all location services available to minimize the risk of drain caused by that. Again - it's not a global issue - I don't have a problem with that.

These are main two problems and I don't think that there are more. Sorry but I'm only human and I've just fixed 3 bugs in latest version (regarding SpiritFM for example) so as you can see I in fact work hard to provide you with my rom for free, while I also have my own job and life in the same time. If you for whatever reason don't want to use ArchiDroid feel free to try another roms, as I'm not the only one guy developing here :). If you however do respect that I'm working hard day and night regarding fixing issues and implementing improvements then I'm very happy about that and I hope to release ArchiDroid 2.2 in near future.

About the plans of AD 2.2 - I'm planning an independent CyanogenMod base. That doesn't mean that I'm abandoning everything provided by temasek, that's a nonsense. I'm just planning compiling from sources by myself (from temasek sources) and maybe in far future even developing something by myself. But before that I want to make sure that my backend is working as intended and it's more or less bug-free, so don't expect anything regarding AD 2.2 in very near future. Maybe in a month or so.

Once again thank you for feedback and I hope that we'll deal with all these problems really soon :).