[Xperia Play Android Development] alex.mircea0509:
perfect as it can be

My review after 10 days on it:

Only bugs that I found so far:

- Settings crashes whenever you come back from language&input settings (not so paticulary annoying)

- The addons have all the same script. Copies just one folder (eg: system). Not all needed (eg: apps). You must inject apps in proper folder with a root browser (set permissions if necessary) and then they'll work. Did it with success for small apps.

- somehow slow. (eg messaging app, settings, smart dial, camera starting) But gets better after several reboots in the first days (I guess it has something to do with dalvik VM. In the first days was awful -and yes, I did the proper reboots after flashing:d)

- Xloud with baseband 79 still does it the other way around (loud when unchecked) but no biggie since it seems to be loud enough when unchecked (i guess a tad louder than gb).

And anyway, xloud only worked with 36 baseband so.. I didn t expect it to work..

- When you play, memory management get FCing apps instead of killing them silently.. You get out of the game from time to time because of the dialogs.. But no biggie on this one either since the games speed is ok. Comparable to GB :D And from one point on, it settles. And I will soon enable swap on sd partition so.. It's ok. App quarantine also does the trick ;)

- Poor customization for quick panel, status bar (no tethering button, gps button doesn't always work, no clock or battery customizations) and lock screen (no shortcuts). But all looks very neat :D

Now on the plus side:

- Very good job for battery life. Superb! No other rom sucks so little juice when you don t use your phone. Proper deep sleep afer disabling google backup (ics bug that gives wake-locks)

- Very very stable. Beside for the FCs I mentioned early and that are not very annoying, I must say that I very much think I could stick with this one as a daily driver :) In the 2.5 years I had my beloved xplay, I tried so many roms and tested them thoroughly (not just for few days). This one it's good and stable since:

- it works with lupus kernel wich it's most complete and updated (I love having cifs, for example, and doom's kernel does n have it. Also enjoying 600 megs data partition)

- I don t have random reboots (for now :d) even on 1.6ghz. On any GB that I tried, I had random reboots which made me crazy since sometime it resulted in a bootloop and no alarm in the morning. Tried everything (I m an advanced user)..

- No people bug when the record doesn t open to edit or show number, as in MOST GB custom roms.

- No freeze when phone call received (as most GB custom roms have and it s criminal since you have to pull out the battery to reboot)

- This one was proper tethering and touchpads. Any JB that I tried, I did n get to make touchpads work (and did all the steps carefully). And tethering only worked with tether app.

- Beautiful lock-screen

- Excellent xperia keyboard

- Nice quick bar panel buttons. 2g works, data traffic works, profiles work and nice icons

- Flashlight in quick bar works and camera also work properly with all the functions (no conflict with flash light as in GB or no video or panorama as in JB)

- Smooth swipe to dismiss notification (not that jaggedness crap like in GB)

- Skipping tracks with L R works :)

- The game speeds are so comparable with GB. The gpu driver seems ok (antutu doesnt crash). I play MW on this since I am to lazy to take my nvidia shield out of the backpack, so you imagine that I am pleased with the fluency :d

If this will give me no random reboots for merely 20days I will give it the credit for the perfect ROM and go next with installing all my apps and customizations :) thanks, Mark! Hope the next update will be incremental, since I will install all my stuff and I don't want to format.. :D