[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ganjah:
ROM Road Trip Report

I've noticed that the best way to find out the stability and capability of a ROM is by going on a long, cross-country road trip. Something about this experience seems to always point out significant deficiencies in my phone's functionality. This year's 6,000mi holiday road trip to see family and friends has been no different.

I really appreciate the work Pwncakes has put into this ROM (thanks, man, you rock!), and had been on the last v2 until recently, when I decided to upgrade to 3.1 after reading all the glowing reports of how perfect it was.

As always, when upgrading, I completely wiped everything clean with a factory reset and formatting of all the proper partitions, and installed with the latest mini modular PA GAPPS at the time (two weeks ago tmw). I don't really know if the GAPPS or the ROM was to blame, but my gf and I experienced a ton of weirdness that was not fixed by reinstalling the GAPPS after a fresh download halfway through the trip.

We experienced a bunch of FCs with stock settings in Trickster (aside from MPDecision set to off, interactiveX + row/256). Apps (Maps, AOSP browser, "stock" messaging, dialer [phone calls], etc.) would frequently crash while we were relying on them to make decisions at 85mph on the highway. We also had many random full reboots, always at inopportune times.

I think those were likely ROM-related, although I am not well-versed enough in this thread and the latest bugs to know for sure. But, beyond that, many of the included Gapps simply didn't work like we had come to expect -

AOSP browser, or what I thought was that browser, suddenly changed its ability to zoom and resize text to fit the screen;

the stock MMS app was vastly different with much less functionality;

the dialer (for which I didn't download the package that included a new one) was way different and not good (didn't allow dialer code to get into the phone tech menu to set LTE off);

couldn't get the cLock widget to work properly with Nova Prime launcher;

many of the settings options simply didn't work, or would not reset when unchecked;

Apollo refused to play albums in the proper order, even when loading playlists;

BT would not pair with any devices - laptops, headphones/headsets, or cars;

Youtube app simply would not keep the screen alive no matter what settings we tried;

and the worst - Maps always chose the most circuitous-yet-direct route to every location (without either of the two options - avoid HWYs & tolls - checked), whether 20 blocks or 1000 miles away...and I mean like way out of the way routes that were horrible and had us on dirt roads and ****, plus the app didn't have many of the overlay settings that we've come to know and love;

I could go on and on but I'm not here to complain, just explain. I'm back home and really in desperate need of some help - I love this ROM, but I want and need the GAPPS to work, and work the way I've come to expect and depend on them working.

Do you guys know of a GAPPS package that is both up-to-date and includes versions that actually work as they did pre Android 4.4.1 or 4.4.2 (or whatever we're on now)? The PA GAPPS didn't seem to do it for me. Or am I misunderstanding the issue - is this the way the latest GAPPS has been updated to work, and all these problems I experienced are actually new "features?"