[Motorola Droid RAZR] d.casper.b:
OK guys. I too have thought to look at other ROMs. I'm not interested in LS, but rather PA.

Well, I just don't like the name LS as it sounds like the ROMs that were being made before Android (Moto V3x, zn5 ....). ;) . Also, my theme (Flux) works great on CM & PA.

So, I have done some testing of my own (on another rom-slot of course). I must firstly say that I too, as Ohmster, am loyal to CM (since I started with it on my Milestone) and didn't want to look elsewhere.

PA 4.5-Alpha2 works great from a few hours of playing. One thing I did notice is that my phone didn't "restart" after being connected as a mass storage device (2 tests). I still have this happening on CM (07/22).

It really feels like it is actually working very well. And it probably is, but it is lacking in features and this will keep me focused on CM. Be grateful to CM guys, it might be full of annoyances, but it is a work in progress after all.

What is missing in PA?

Heads-up feels better in CM as apposed to hover in PA. It would be great for me, but I cannot find any configuration to blacklist apps from hover and 3G Watchdog keeps popping up with a hover-notification. You can deny the app the ability to post notifications via "App Privacy" which may help (it does resolve the hover issue for me, but my ongoing notification now does not update at all). "App Privacy" is a nifty feature BTW, but not sure how useful it will be to many.

EDIT: OK, found the option to blacklist an app from Hover under "Apps".

By default there is no slide keyboard out-of-the-box. This can be remedied of course, but still.

No file manager is available to start off with. I keep my apks so I can avoid the Play Store as much as possible after a fresh install. A file manager is not available to browse and install my apks.

EDIT: Can access files using "Documents" and checking "Display advanced devices" in settings.

I like to slide between quick settings and notifications on the bottom bar in CM. This is not possible in PA. Apparently in LS you can slide anywhere to swap between the two.

Can't seem to add and remove quick settings tiles only rearrange those that are there.

EDIT: OK, you can add/remove some, just less options, but mostly the "main" ones anyways.

Can't find how to remove the alarm icon on the status bar.

It doesn't have "Profiles" it seems..not all bad, but I do use profiles.

Don't know if it's possible to add apps to the lockscreen via slide unlock.

I might just not have found the options I'm looking for yet, but I have had a good look.

Some features I moan about missing here may be unnecessary, but at the same time this IS NOT CM11, so it's silly to want all the features from one ROM in another. But some features seem to feel more vital, but I guess I'm used to CM, which is not fair to PA. I will check out some more during the day and will check dock this evening (another issue I'm having these days on CM - phone use to rotate when docked, now it doesn't).

Verdict: CM is great, we may have some bugs to squash, but it's a great ROM and inspiration to many other ROMs.

PA looks to be working very well so far. If I had never used CM before, I sure would be using PA. I can definitely recommend this ROM. You may miss some small features, but it's not bad, and after time you may even forget them. I'm impressed enough that I will now follow PA's development.

And I'll be updating my CM this evening after hearing Ohmster's feedback.

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