yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] esemef:
I have an Xperia Ray and wouldn't have considered that the

"[ROM] [4.4.4] AOKP :: kitkat :: Xperia Mini / Mini Pro / Active / Live with Walkman

Device: Xperia Mini / Mini Pro / Active / Live with Walkman"

thread would be appropriate.

The installation link from that thread points to exactly the same link as the installation for CM11

https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-LegacyXperia-for-Dummies

Which links back to this thread.

I got to the point where my phone wouldn't even charge when turned on, then it struggled to charge when it was turned off. I changed the cable and it seemed to make a little improvement, but after a while that didn't help. I stopped using the sony charger and use a generic one and the battery now charges fine when turned on and the phone lasts longer from a full charge.

I think the difference is the phone thinks the battery is fully charged when it's not, but that isn't likely something to do with the software that the user can modify (like the camera or RIL) or it might be a hardware limitation.

I bought a new battery but haven't got round to charging it to see if it's an improvement. Buying a battery for a three year old phone is a lucky dip where you could win an original battery that has sat on a shelf for three years, a second hand battery that has been "refurbished" or a clone with unknown quality (ideally you'd get a good clone).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] godlesplay:
[MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] I saw this changelog in your site "Fixed default IO scheduler not being set to row after clean install" could you fix governor too? because it is resetting to interactive after every boot and it is resetting to 1ghz freq too
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kong2000:
So row is the default scheduler? I have NOOP and I never changed it. I ask myself why we need so many different schedulers and governors.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kriko:
What apps do you have that uses sync features?

I get about 1%ph drain with full sync and always on wifi.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pteek:
I'd get the same if it were not for these damn mmc1_detect and rpc_read.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tomi_Ohl:
Nothing like this happens to me. Are you sure you selected the "Apply at boot" option?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] godlesplay:
Yep, I'm sure...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pteek:
Frequency resetting to 1ghz for me too. 718
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karth83:
I have a strange issue. I did force reboot and then my wallpaper got reset to default. Whenever I try to change soft reboots happens (cm logo animation appears without kernel reboot). Mine is haida, I use LX kernel and ROM from nightly 2014-07-18.

Sorry if it is a repeat question.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] h.debnath:
You can use no-frills CPU control to set your governor, io , and frequency scale. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.sineo.android.noFrillsCPU
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] manj0t:
quite good values.. i never get this much backup with wifi on..

it gives me 1%pH backup only when the wifi is off and phone is in deep sleep 99% of the time...what tweaksor settings do you use sir?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
Google -App Data, -Calendar, -Contacts, -Keep; Twitter, Whatsapp, Pushbullet, 2 K-9 mail accounts (fetching mail every 10 minutes).

Note that the 5% drain is including about half an hour of screen on time per day.

Pretty stable, today again 60% off in 12 hours
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kriko:
I'm using sync only for google apps, including Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Keep, Drive.

Where can you tweak mail sync interval, to my knowledge it was removed with ICS.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
You can set the sync interval inside the email APP for each mail account.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Shamal5736:
Open email settings, select account (you might have more of them), fifth item is Sync frequency
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] KaoDome:
Is it possible to change Trebuchet's layout?

I just installed the latest nightly in a Mini (smultron) and the application drawer seems pretty crowded to me. It has a 4x5 grid but I'd like to try a 4x4 one to see if that feels more natural.

Is it possible to change that layout? I couldn't any setting for it so I'm guessing file editing would be needed.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karth83:
Sorry it was because I have disabled Themes, I enabled it and I am able to change the wallpaper.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] RaXelliX:
Launcher limitation i guess. I wish CM team would swap out Trebuchet for something more adequate. So far mostly ok on 20140718 @ smultron. Using smartassv2/NOOP @ 1.4Ghz.

Drain is less than 1%/hour .Only problems so far are one random reboot and intermittent blackscreen issue when booting (between LX logo and CM boot animation). Only had 1 random reboot so far but i forgot to take logs with LX Center app. Will do it if it happens again.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kriko:
...and [MENTION=868594]Mardon[/MENTION]. Are you two talking about Gmail mail app? I have only Sync on/off and days to sync.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] popthosegaskets:
You might want to post this somewhere else since it's definitely not related to LXP CM11...

僕のINO2から送られてきた
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] omid220819:
I apologize again,but as I mentioned before,some of the points were general and would related to LXP CM11.Also I wanted to have complete list of problems and troubles (that happened to me and are reported a lot in previous pages) listed,so newcomers could use.Because around 600 pages makes it very difficult to find something specific.

Thank you again for your guidance...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Sotirispech:
Please see the working/not working list on legacyxpon GitHub befor

Please see the working/not working list on legacyxperia page on GitHub before posting. It says tha hotspot doesn't work.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Konstantinosj77:
It's working but sometimes the connection drops...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mrahmanda:
i am sorry, not for bothering, but cm11 for mango it still not available yet :( ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tazan2013:
And in new rom (CM11)

Battery will life?

I'm using ST18i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ErecDeGraal:
I'm also having the same issue on my neo V. All linked apps give FC. You can move them to the SD card, they will work fine (it's just a workaround)

[MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] ROM works fine and smooth. It's great for a first release. I expect you can solve the linked apps issue (via Link2SD) soon. I'll try to post some logcats on the bugtracker.

Thanks a lot for the great work :good:

Edit: Reboot into recovery is not working on neo V
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Temuchin:
Dear Mike,

When will it come for Mango ?

thanks for the 4.3 rom, looking forward for kitkat
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rjnikku:
how to add different widget pages in lock screen ???

BTW thnxx mike for the awsm,sweet kitkat .....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Elessar76:
Maybe that feature is not implemented yet, like some other options and features missed from early cm versions.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
Settings->Lockscreen->Widget pager

like always.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MisieXXX:
Does the /vendor partition issue of LT15i might also apply to MK16i (as they are almost identical apart from hw keyboard from what I know)? How can I check if I have /vendor partition on my iyokan?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DevBoon:
Issue with numeric pad @ SIMlock

WOW, the CM11 rocks, thank you Mike, for keeping my Ray alive!

I've got just one issue, the numeric pad for unlocking SIM card is "compressed" (see screenie).

Oh, edit: it works, just the design is ... as it is. ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rjnikku:
hey mike in lockscreen there is only one setting to maximize the widget ..nothing else .... Thnxx anywys ..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Natureknight:
If you want transparent navbar and statusbar just simply edit build.prop file:

set "ro.config.low_ram=true" to "ro.config.low_ram=false"

Mike is God :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chiraggoel:
Kitkat

I would like to discuss some of the points in this rom.Specially in LIve with Walkman(WT 19 i)

1 ART IS NOT WORKING {STUCKS TO BOOT ANIMATION}

2.QUICK UNLOCK IS MISSING IN SECURITY{WHEN WE SET PIN AS SECURITY AND WHEN WE ENTER THE PIN WE NEED TO PRESS THE ENTER BUTTON}

3.ONLY SINGLE HOMESCREEN AVAILABLE IN THIS LAUNCHER..

BUT MIKE YOU ARE JUST DAMN GOOD MAN..VERY FINE WORK....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] amishxda:
I have not installed kitkat yet, but based on videos online about kitkat on youtube, if you drag "icon" to left or right edge of the screen, it automatically adds a new "homescreen" where u can drop ur icon!

i.e. adding and deleting homescreen is now automatic like magic!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] shoeseat:
Is it my illusion or icons on dock,google search bar and battery icon looks a bit bur? :p Using xperia Arc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hazardland:
Sony Erricson Xperia Pro MK16i

Guys have you tried this ROM on Sony Erricson Xperia Pro MK16i ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] friAndroid:
works fine!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jobayer:
[MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] thank you very much for bringing kitkat on our legacy devices. im using it on my smultron. really fast and smooth experience. anyway, would you tell me how to enable "Google Now" card in google search? i have tried with GoogleHome.apk but unfortunately no cards appear on the left side homescreen and google search. only "ok google" works.

Thanks again for your great work :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DevBoon:
In between I found another bug: my browser crashes when I try to open an anonymous tab. Here my very first catlog. HTH

I'm using the Nova-Launcher if it is important to know (but it also happens with Launcher3).

edit again: all-xperia-thread: I'm using the Ray (st18i)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] subconscious_mind:
Its the time to change your signature dude. It still showing CM 10.2 :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Antoniokodo:
It's my first time testing KitKat, even being the first it's very very stable and all goes quite good, only focus on stock and laggy browser and non-customizable launcher, but it's problem of CM as is at firsts stages. If you want bit more customization, use new beta release of Xposed and GravityBox and a launcher like Nova and you remember the lack of customization:D

Internal memory is so good too, 405/420 mb available with gapps but /system with gapps and all stuff remains next to 0 mb.. but if you slim a bit removing tones, useless apps, change to google's keyboard you will get around 55mb free that can be good if in the future ART is fixed:p

Here I have to say thanks to Mike and everyone else involved in Cm project, your work it's great!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ReznorNInchNails:
Another logcat of freezing browser

http://pastebin.com/ZiBRNtFm

Gesendet von meinem Xperia Neo V mit Tapatalk 2
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Pino_Appeddu:
In point 3. Can you tell me the tweaks for taking better image with the camera? Thanks in advance! :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] deccan451:
This is the battery backup of latest lxp alpha 3 on 368-1401, ondemand/sio.. On non stop usage pretty stable better than jellybean .. Just amazing :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Vynikal:
This commit works for some people, for some not.

https://github.com/LegacyXperia/and...mmit/8083c91300950067b039dcaef07b3c4ab6ae03ab

It was changed for coconut and mango. For me it works fine.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hmnk:
Hi, I got 3 doubts, can anyone please help me??

1) How to present Apps from Force Closing after linking them to the ext partition using Link2SD?

2) Why is the wi-fi always shown as on in the battery stats?

3) Any tips on improving battery life on this ROM??

Thank you!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JimieTheFox:
I don't remember them now, just get the Android Tweeker 2 app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bam.android.androidtweaker.two&hl=el

and see the tweaks it has under " Media " :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] akku1:
I got around 4.5 hours screen on on continuous internet ^_^

This is far far better than gb,ics & jb !

Really those who not tried LX cm11 yet , experience it :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Dilesh Perera:
by looking at the pic it seems u have low internal memory. try to move delvik cache to sd and link library files. i used to use link2sd but now i use mounts2sd which has more options.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hemantvaswani:
Not booting Xperia LWW wt19i

Team,

please help me, even after using .587 ROM and following steps for installing cwm11 , the phone doeas not move ahead after showing the LX logo (naa kernel and cyanogenmod), i had kept waiting for as long as 30mins, please suggest. i am having great hopes of getting kitkat on my xperia live, struggling to make it happen,

Note : the device is unlocked as per guidelines from sony website only

Please share the explicit information in this regard

thanks

hemant
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dexter1123:
How do I use this?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] arun240292:
I am on alpha 3,awesome rom almost everything fine, some bugs here and there, hope they'll be fixed in next release, and big thanks to Mike
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Joy Bangla:
1. change preferred network to 2G in settings

2. Use Greenify

3. Use DisableServices to block Play services
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] shouvikonline:
Zero Patch for Haida?

Does anyone have zero patch for Haida for Alpha 3 rom?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lagania:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48345187
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ReznorNInchNails:
[MENTION=4807408]dexter1123[/MENTION]

unpack zip and find hwconfig.sh in /system/etc/

then replace those lines in that file:

-val_cycle=2

-val_nburst=0

-val_freq=2

-val_threshold=5

with:

+val_cycle=0

+val_nburst=26

+val_freq=0

+val_threshold=2

val_filter=0

Note: this - and + are for patching file. For editing by hand, just ignore - and +

Only compare those lines and change values. If something is missing, manually write those lines.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Christopher83:
MSM7x30 and hybrid memory allocations (ION + PMEM ADSP)

Hi [MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION],

tonight our team Ariesve-DevConnection-Team (ADC Team), on Samsung Galaxy S Plus development forum section, released a build of CM 10.1 with hybrid memory allocations (ION for almost all + PMEM ADSP for camera libs and drivers only).

The rom is fully working, so camera, camcorder, video recording and playback are working as well...

You can find our thread here:

CyanogenMod 10.1 by ADC-Team - Release 1 (ION) - Kernel 3.4.x

The sources are published here on GitHub: AriesVE-DevCon-TEAM

You can find the commits here:

Rom side

- android_device_samsung_ariesve/commits/cm-10.1_ion_pmem_adsp

- android_hardware_qcom_media-caf/commits/cm-10.1

- android_vendor_samsung_ariesve/commits/cm-10.1_ion

At the moment, there are no changes on gralloc side, so we are simply using the display-caf repo coming from CM.

Kernel side (branch based on jb-2.5.5 branch of CAF) samsung-kernel-msm7x30/commits/cm-10.1_ion_pmem_adsp

In particular the commit mach-msm: Use PMEM ADSP for camera and ION camera heap for video encoder/decoder

We already created the "on working stage" branches for CM 10.2 and CM 11.0, you can find them too on our repos, at the moment there are some problems with hwcomposer and surfaceflinger, but also these two versions are booting, we hope to fix them in the next days...

We hope you can find this stuff useful.

For any info you may contact us via PM.

Any help or hint will be surely appreciated.

Thanks again for your work. :good:

Good luck! :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
Great job! I'm currently having some trouble getting my MDDI panels work on 3.4.x kernel but these changes are definitely useful.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sud.vastav:
Can you please elaborate your steps?

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Can you please elaborate your steps?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hemantvaswani:
Not booting Xperia LWW wt19i

1. i unlocked my xperia lww wt19i as per bootunlocker.sonymobile.com, the unlocked was already with .587 ROM

2. i installed CM10 - coconut nightly, it worked but GAPPS was not functioning.

3. since GAPPS was not functioning, i was not ale to work fully with the phone as none of the apps were available

4. i attempted to install CM11-coconut from steps as mentioned in legacy xperia website

5. i did not find any error while installing the CM11-coconut, still after first re-boot the phone only shows LX xperia logo with NAA & cyanogenmod for a minute and then blank display which never moves ahead

6. i was told to ensure ROM is .587, so just to make sure, i downloaded .587 again and flashed it, however even after doing .587 ROM re-installation, i am facing problem of blank display.

Note - is the above problem because of sandisk ultra 32gb memory card, i just suspected while writing this.

thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tigger360:
To everyone having problems with mx player, the dev just updated the app to support 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 . I cant test it myself cause i dont have a computer to flash the kernel for this rom, therefore i cant flash it. Just enjoy following the thread :D hope this helps
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] skaveelicious:
Thanks for your input.

Just note that any KitKat ROM for the Xperia 2011 line is based on LegacyXperia. This means that any bug present in a LX build will most certainly be present in some way in the other ROMs aswell. Because of this I decided to stay "as stock as possible" and stay with the CM11 port by Mike.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] omid220819:
By the way,I forgot to add that in the ROMs I've tried until now on my XPERIA PRO( iyokan),I had no wifi drops or wifi issues.It works great.I used included kernel on both CM11 and Carbon,and had no problems.I tried Dark raven kernel (Vanir ROM) and flashed wifi module of the kernel and had no problems at all.Working like a charm.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cmureza:
Hi

My phone is Xperia Mini and I install this rom . Every thing is fine but

When I call somobody or I have in-call , They can't hear my voice . It has noise .

help me plz
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karth83:
Wifi drops only sometimes when there is a heavy download. Did you try wifi hotspot?, it drops now and then during heavy network traffic.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Shamal5736:
Nope, I'm talking about default email application (yellow/white icon), not Gmail. I always delete Gmail app since I use multiple accounts (one of them actually is gmail account). I'm even not sure if Gmail app can handle non gmail account, actually I have never tried that...

Sorry about talking about off LX topic
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] omid220819:
To be honest,I haven't tried hotspot recently,but last time it dropped connection,but so rare that wasn't worth mentioning.I mean it wasn't noticeable.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cmureza:
Somebody helpppppppppppp
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Micha_Btz:
hi,

i want to send a contact to an other contact via sms. but i didn't found a possibility to do it.

in contact menu > share there are some possibilities like bluetooth and mail, but not sms.

i have to copy the number an paste it in sms. does anyone know a more comfortable way?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pteek:
my friends CM11 had a strage problem. He installed the 311 build 4 months ago and everything went fine. After a few weeks, his ringtone stopped playing. Music works but no ringtone is played at the selection menu or at the time of a incoming call.

I updated his ROM to718 (no /data format) with hopes of solving this but had no luck with that. The ringtone still won't play.

Any solutions except factory reset?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
I think you had to disable noise cancelling in some earlier version, it's located in the dialer settings, worth trying maybe.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Sotirispech:
Have you tried formatting cache and dalvik cache? If that doesn't fix the issue then backup your apps with titanium backup and try wiping data.

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Is it that difficult to copy/paste something?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] omid220819:
+1

I just wanted to say the same!!!!!!!:D

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Hi again,

I just updated to latest build and I have everything working very nice and fluent,except touch problem in the bottom of the screen.I have this problem in all of the 4.4.4 ROMs.I don't why this isn't fixed?!

-Camera woking

-720p capture working

-no wifi drops

-no battery drain(if you have wakelock,try offline charging-It will solve the problem)

-very smooth UI

-2 partitions (6GB FAT32 for data and 2 GB FAT32 for system) & Link2SD working

-installed various launchers,currently on Nova launcher.Themer Beta didn't work.It loaded up but hangs when you choose a theme and try to

apply...

-Installed lots of games,a few heavy games with data,no problems so far...

-phone calls & everything works great...

-You can use for daily use!!!

For those of you who have problems,I'd suggest a full backup,and clean install.Also use the Kernel included in the ROM zip (boot.img).Most of the problems are kernel related I think....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Sotirispech:
What do you mean by touch problem?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Fredx87:
GMail can handle non Gmail accounts, but you have to set them in the web interface. You can sync other accounts using IMAP or POP3. I find it very useful for handle all my e-mail accounts in only one place (GMail) and access them everywhere.

Talking about the ROM, I'm using it since the previous build on my Neo, and I think it is the fastest ROM I've used since Gingerbread, the only problem for me is the battery drain, sometimes the problem is solved with the charger trick, but sometimes it doesn't work. Other issues (like BT battery drain and WiFi drops) are not so drastic for me. Thanks to Mike for the hard work, but also thanks to CM team and to Google, seems that Kitkat is really optimized even for devices with 512MB of RAM.