[Nexus 5 Original Android Development] magnamentis:
just a basic observation :)

hi folks,

considering the many individual problems which often cannot be reproduced by the majority and thus lead

to many back and forth discussions often with a certain amount of exitement :) i want to just remind you

of the following:

in most, if not even in all cases, any software comes with quite conservative default settings, so that any

app and feature which was built fulfilling the minimum requirements would somehow work on

most if not all devices.

so the moment we start to tweak [ optimize ] our devices's software for better performance we are moving

away from those conservative [ safe ] settings closer towards the edge, means closer towards to what is achievable.

in this process, and this makes totally sense, some hardware and software components will start failing and/or

misbehave because they are poorly built to just fulfill the minimum standards.

in this context it's not by accident that the same apps and roms appear as troublemakers over and over again.

so it's not about right or wrong but about choice and compatibility. if you want to use a software component like

for example a kernel which deals more efficiently with your hardware resource, you have be aware that some

low end apps will not work like before and if you need a certain mains stream app absolutely, albeit it's known as

a problematic app, then perhaps you will make things worse by using an optimized kernel, because that specific

software cannot perform without a huge safety net ( forgiving hardware and software handling conditions )

what would be really helpful to avoid all these discussions trying to blame one or the other component would be,

to search google and xda for similar or the same issues and depending on the results, to admit that it's probably on

the user's side to look for culprits and not blame roms and kernels first.

it's simply not possible that if thousands of people use a kernel like this one, that if 3 or 4 people have a probem

while all others don't, that this would be an issue caused by the kernel, but more likely be the misbehaving app

and/or other factors, where clearing app data and cash often helps. however, just to mention one app like facebook,

while reading through xda for many month's and following different threads for various roms, devices and kernels

facebook is repeatedly showing up as trouble maker which does again not mean that it's no good, but perhaps

just not built to work in certain sophisticated environments. sophisticated, meaning for example power efficiency

paired with perfomance.

Current Devices:

I9100, PAC-ROM 4.3.1 ( Formerly Omni, PA, Dorimanx, etc. )

N7000, 4.1.2 TouchWizz All Stock ( very motivating to continue flashing custom roms further haha.... )

N7100, Cyanogenmod 11, Xposed Framework ( Formerly AOSNP, PAC, Omni, PA, Devil, Thor, AGNI up to 2.7.6, etc. )

Nexus 4, Cataclysm 4.4.2, Franco Kernel r203, Dalvik & Bionic Patched, Xposed Framework ( Formerly PAC, PA, Cataclysm, Faux, etc. )

Nexus 5, Cyanogenmod 11, ElementalX & Chaos, Xposed [intermittent use], ( Formerly Cataclysm, Franco & FKU Color Control, Dalvik & Bionic, Faux, Bricked, etc. )