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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
OK here is what u have been waiting for

Slim compiled with JustArchi's ArchiDroid Optimizations http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2754997

here is the test build http://www.mediafire.com/download/gx2pwa73j76b4a6/slimkat-20140521-UNOFFICIAL-pepper.zip

for those willing to test

make backup of ur existing rom, including slim

complete wipe, data too

then install fresh + gapps

check performance for a day or too

provide feedback and dont forget to answer poll.

if there is real change we will use this for our next weekly :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
I'm in! :) downloading now and will test!

question: is correct only 105mb file size?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
maybe its AFH server issue, i added mediafire link. plz download from there
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
o-ok, so according to my phone for about an hour of using

the performance is way more than i expected using justarchi's optimization

let's see tomorrow if there is any problem or not

=======edited========

it's been a day and no problem so far

smooth ui and scrolling , all apps opens very fast.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Common guyz.. 110+ downloads and only 12 votes (and 4 of them ask for Archi's whereabouts :p )

I need feedback .. vote vote vote :good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rylek:
if Archi's optimalization will couse no problem with Slimkat, will You use it for CM11 and AOSX ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
i was waiting to test it befor tell but, for me +1 for archi's :)

first feelings:

Rom is smooth and fast, as [MENTION=5402339]Deichz[/MENTION] said. By now everything's fine, i just had a reboot don't know why... i was doing anything, and i mean really anything, phone was on the table like for 20 secs :)

Anyway, and hopefully not for placebo effect, it's seems a little bit smoother
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
I installed it without wiping data, and so far I have no issues. Right now it feels smoother than the previous build. It's a bit early for a final judgement, but I'm going to vote for Archi anyway as I think it's the right way to go. The Sola needs any possible optimization as long as it doesn't break anything :)

BTW I used TWRP's file manager to copy my swap_sd script to /etc/init.d/ after the flashing to spare me one reboot, and it was a real pain. It jumped back and forth between screens without any interaction, I needed several attempts until I finally managed to navigate to the target dir and to save the file there. Has anyone used the TWRP file manager and observed the same?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nhoc_maruko9x:
SlimKat has very nice performance and full compatible with ART but battery life is not really good :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
How is the battery life of archi's? And are there any keyboard crashes?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
i think almost all downloaders isn't xda members.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
just got a reboot while watching a video on facebook in landscape :-/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
how u installed? fresh ??

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
yep... fresh install yesterday of build with archi's!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
For me SlimKAT battery life is better than with any previous ROM, and I don't even have removed the NFC stuff (I've turned it off in the settings though). Battery easily lasts 2+ days for me, whereas with other ROMs I was happy to see 1.5 days. But I don't do too much with the phone, calls, messages of course, music, photos or videos occasionally, but no gaming. WiFi/mobile is on all the time, location is off unless I really need it. When I use GPS it drains the battery quickly, max. 5 hours from 100% to empty. To save battery I put the phone into flight mode overnight.

I haven't had any keyboard crashes for a long time now. But as others reported this may be due to lack of free mem. I don't use facebook or other bloated apps that use a lot of memory, and I have tuned min memory to a very light setting with performance control. Maybe that's why I have no such problems.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
ART or Dalvik?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Dalvik.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
2 days?

my phone wont even last for 8 hours with 3G on :/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Not to make you jealous or anything, but... :)

That drop near the end was when I flashed the Archi build this morning.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
well i couldn't reproduce fb video issue, maybe its just due fb app eating all the memory. dont use fb app use browser if u really want fb ☺

anyway i hve decided to merge archi into slimkat as it has been merged in AOSX.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
I think that airplane mode during night helps a lot, mine also has like 24 hours and still 40% (last night on airplane mode).

Great! :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
For me its brilliant, i greenify fb app and use it when i want. No battery drains, only 2-5 percent overnight.

Only problem which occurs is the sometimes when browsing or randomly a glitch appears for about one fifth of a second like red borders screen, anyone else having such problems?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pj.gomes:
Airplane Mode.......if you use airplane mode when you are sleeping is the same as the phone was shut down, no one can call you, for that is better you turn it off and save more battery lol
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nhoc_maruko9x:
I don't know why, my screen is always about 60 - 70% battery..

But why you want someone calls you at night, when you're dreaming? :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Are you using auto brightness? I have switched it off a long time ago because it prevents the cpu from going to deep sleep, and drained the battery a lot. Not sure if this is still the case. I prefer controlling the brightness via swyping over the status bar.

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I don't want anyone to call me while I'm sleeping. If it's an emergency I'm still reachable via land line.

Switching off is no option, because the phone still has some use at night, e.g. I use it as my alarm clock, night light and to see the time. Other advantage is that it's back online in a few sec. A reboot takes much longer, and probably eats as much battery as a whole night in flight mode :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pj.gomes:
Turning the phone to Airplane Mode is not an option to save battery.....for that is much better to return to stock rom, ICS in our sola has much better battery performance than all Kit Kat's Rom's together.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nhoc_maruko9x:
Yes I do not use auto brightness and change it via status bar. I think because I set brightness too high, usually > 70%.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
70% :eek: no wonder screen is eating ur battery... u need a torch rather than mobile :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
same here i also set brightness 70%< most of the time
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nhoc_maruko9x:
I use my phone outside alot :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Jeneral2014:
some members say that battery life lasts for 2 days and with wifi and data on !! and with 38% of brightness consumption !!!

btw sony stock roms didn't get these records :D

honestly it's like a miracle for me :D coz i feel great when my slimkat battery life last for just 5 hours with wifi and data are on + brightness consumption not less than 60% without auto brightness :confused:

no hard feelings anyway but it was just one member who mentioned this legendary records with his battery and we can't consider as it's a general case :)

for me slimkat is the best rom ever but it still has a battery drain issues
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
Video recording working anyone ? My camera crashes
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Working fine over here.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Sherwinnn:
im absolutely in love with this rom. Only thing is there's a bug. Which is when my phone is on landscape mode, in order to decrease the volume, I have to press the up volume rocker instead of down volume rocker, same thing goes to increase the volume. :c everything is good besides that problem! :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
dirty flash?

or you can try another camera app

well it's "landscape" so it automatically like right and left not up and down
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kentaurest:
I have all ringtones listed three times and first two doesn't produce any sound.

I found it because phone stopped ringing.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
Fixed it sorry my bad

I flashed xperia camera which did not work anyway so i removed it
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Try wiping /system then flash again.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Time for Weekly 5.4 (OPTIMIZED with Archi ;) )
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
deleted :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dwaipayanray95:
Quick bro quick....I saw slimkat gerrit...loads of amazing changes they did....

JustArchi's optimizations are just amazing...

And you'll compile with the latest GCC 4.9 right? the one optimized for Cortex A9?

Cant wait for the next build :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
GCC 4.9 does not boot , see archi's thread. so i use GCC 4.8

build is complete.. i am downloading from server to test, then will release :)

EDIT: New Build uploaded .. Enjoy !!! :)

P.S. Forgot to update media_codecs.xml for new ffmpeg decoder. Extract the attached file and push in /system/etc of the zip file prior to install, dont forget to wipe system for new decoder to work.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
"wipe system" as like coming from another rom? sorry i got confused
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
I wiped system and cache and everything is fine ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kentaurest:
I noticed that camera shutter sound setting doesn't work, after unchecking it camera still makes noise.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
thats not it, i mean, should i wipe system/factory reset for the new decoder to work?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
u dont need factory reset or wipe data. only wipe system, install rom and new decoder works, now i can play flv and 3gp etc. straight from gallery.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sjf9:
Wait, am I right that wiping system from inside TWRP formats /system (/dev/block/mmcblk0p10) partition? If yes after this operation /system partition should be... empty
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
yes, forma /system through twrp, then install new rom and gapps
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Moglie:
Hi,

i used GB (2.3.7) with this phone (since 2012) until now and wanted to try a newer firmware.

This ROM is clearly the best yet i have tested. I dont have tested all but i will report you if i find a bug.

The Antutu benchmark is much better with this ROM compared to GB or ICS stock ROM how does this come?

3D score of Antutu with this ROM is about ~ 3500 and with stock ROM its ~2500 new drivers for MALI 400 GPU?

What i changed was: build.prop > ro.sf.lcd_density to 240 because its to small by default. Why not change this to 240 by default?

Anyway this ROM is STUNNING. :)

Is there a way to implent a overclock option also? This would be ultimate. :good:

EDIT: I have tested a bit more now. When I benchmark with Antutu and automatic brightness is OFF then i have a score of ~10000 and when i benchmark with automatic brightness is ON i have a score of ~7800. is this normal? I mean 2200 points are a huge difference on this old smartphone, only for auto brightness i cant belive...

I didnt pay attention yet to this behaviour on other ROMs.

Here you can see my benchmark result with SlimKat Auto-Brightness OFF. And then Auto-Brightness ON. (High>OFF and Low>ON) Dramatic difference and so iam sure Auto-Brightness always use much performance and will drain your battery even more. Correct me if iam wrong.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Yes it's known that auto brightness eats cpu (and as a consequence, battery too). With auto brightness, my idle cpu load goes up to around 30%, I guess that is what lowers the benchmark points a lot.

As far as I know, no one familiar with the KitKat ROMs uses auto brightness. Instead there is an option that allows you to swype over the status bar to change the brightness. That's what I use.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Jeneral2014:
did u complete the test till 100% ??!!

I don't know whats wrong with me but the test always aborted after 84 or 87%
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Moglie:
Could you explain me how you bring the brightness changer direct into the status bar?

Yes, true at the moment iam on CM11 by Freack!

I have the same problem there.

SlimKat > Antutu ~10000points (Auto-Brightness OFF)

SlimKat > Antutu ~8000points (Auto-Brightness ON)

CM11 Freack > Antutu ~10000points (Auto-Brightness OFF)

CM11 Freack > Antutu ~8000points (Auto-Brightness ON)

Stock ICS > Antutu ~8000points (Auto-Brightness OFF)

Stock ICS > Antutu ~8000points (Auto-Brightness ON)

So stock ICS is always "low" on Antutu no matter if Auto-Brightness is off or on. I think stock ICS need less resources to handle the light sensor and has just old drivers for GPU. Maybe iam wrong but i think thats the way it is.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Sherwinnn:
Just slide across the status bar. Might need few tries
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
There is no changer. Just tap on the status bar and move your finger left or right to lower or raise the brightness. But you need to have that enabled in Settings -> user interface -> status bar.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
JustArchi's ArchiDroid Optimizations V3 is out

https://github.com/JustArchi/android_build/commit/0cf89401cc8092dda959b5746ec4899fda756cec

"Changelog":

currently compiling to test, if successful V3 will be included in next weekly :)

EDIT:

Build complete :D

can somebody plz test http://d-h.st/T9t
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sigmich:
Just installed. Then restored apps by Titanium. Everything seems to be fine. Didn't find any unknown bugs. Great!

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] _ViBe_:
Just Installed!

Guess what. Google is responsible for the crashes!!!!!!!!!

I flashed the test build and i didn't recovered any backups. Then i opened Play Store and downloaded Facebook app. I saw around 20 facebook videos without crash! I was so excited!!!

From the first time i connected to my wifi i had a notification about a cloud update. In all Slim builds I used to make this update when i was asked. But this time i just ignored it and installed facebook and tested the videos playback. Everything is fine.

After the video success I installed this cloud update which updates google services. I rebooted my phone and re opened Facebook app.

Guess what... I just got my phone stuck and rebooted since the first video playback!!!!!!!!!!!

COME ON GOOGLE!!!!

Anyway I will try to uninstall this update and retry video playback and report.

Keep up the good work!!! :good:

EDIT:

Flashed the rom for third time. this time i changed gapps from minimal to AIO. I restored my backup with Titanium and I ignored Google Play services update for Hangouts. I was able to playback 3 videos this time but on the third one, BOOM.. Crashed- reboot and stuck on boot animation. I had to hard shutdown the phone and restart it. Defenately there is something wrong with GAPPS.

Any suggestions?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
Is this ZIP complete? I installed it after wiping dalvik/cache/system and it seems /system is empty after flashing. More or less all core apps do an FC. Should I not have wiped /system? Going to restore my backup now.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sigmich:
Zip is complete. Did you unmount system before flashing?

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
I went into recovery, took a backup, wiped dalvik/cache/system, flashed and rebooted. That's when I found everything FC'ing. I booted into recovery to add my swap-sd script to /etc/init.d in the hope it would fix the FCs, but couldn't find the init.d dir in /etc, and there also was no /system/etc directory. Actually there was nothing at all in /system.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sigmich:
Check the first post in this topic. You need to unmount /system before flashing the zip. Maybe it causes the problem you have. Because the last build is working great for me. I did clean install as you did. And I unmounted /system before flashing the zip.

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mstreibe:
OK I will give this another try later.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
Do we have to push Media codecs in /system/etc in this build?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
no, i have updated sources.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Slim 5.6 + AOSX V2 + Archi V3 is coming :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
Damn! why did i flash last yesterday? :D Thanks man!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
u can flash all slim builds one after the other, only wipe cache+system, there is no limit :cool:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
New Slimkat Uploaded having JustArchi's ArchiDroid Optimizations V3, AOSX Version V2 and Slim Version 5.6

Enjoy !!! :good: :cowboy:

Note:

Initial Support for Apps moving to Ext SD card has been added, if u dont see ext card after install, dont panic, just reboot and let it settle :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alireza7620:
NFC On/Off Working ?!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
Last night i had a dream that slimkat had v2

woah , it was real :D

Thanks [MENTION=5143053]alwaysadeel[/MENTION] (Y) you are simply awesome :cheers:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] _ViBe_:
Just flashed with minimal gapps 5.6.

Will test and report. :good:

EDIT:

FB videos still crash the phone. EXCELLENT battery management! 17 hours with wifi on and still have 20% battery!!!! Keyboard still fcs. Recent apps still need a second time to appear in the manager. Smoother graphics. System feels a lot smoother. Good work!

Question:

Anyone having problems with microphone when answers a call? All callers tell me that they hear me far away from the mic. problem disappears only if i put the call on speaker. Microphone works ok on all other apps.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Webster101:
Random reboots fixed?? :confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
what random Reboots? i never had one from the time i m using it

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
maybe he means CM11? or another ROM?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] balanced_emotions:
Cant get mobile data.

I can not get mobile data. Someone adviced me to change the baseband, but I can not change the baseband. I tried 3 different firmwares but none of them woked. Everytime I booted up my phone after flashing, the baseband was same.

Any helps will be deeply granted.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] abbas23:
well i have some random reboots sometimes when ram consumption is high

by high i mean when playing clash of clans or using fb

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try changing apn settings
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Webster101:
Earlier i installed slimkat v5.4 but after flashing it worked fine but after sometime the phone started rebooting itself again and again. Thats what im saying
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] _ViBe_:
Eeeehmmm.. Guyz..! What is wrong with video playback? Except Facebook videos now I also have reboots when I try to play a video on YouTube app.

Any help? Plz......!!!

EDIT: Play around with minfree values. Phone starts behaving much better now.

System default: 17,23,28,37,43,52

Moderate: 17,23,28,40,47,53

With new minfree I was able to play YouTube videos and fb videos. Also on browser and fb no more keyboard FCS for now. Will test the whole day tomorrow and report.

Sent from my Slim Sola
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] balanced_emotions:
Not working either.

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-u/issues/mobile-data-stock-based-roms-t2770408
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
FAQ updated with memory management tip:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
Some people like me doesn't like installing any app that interact with the core system. In this case you should use the procedure I'm going to write and found in an Italian forum (androidiani.com) by illuminato67, if you want you can put it in one of the OPs.

With a root explorer file manager with system folder mounted as RW* go on /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters

You'll found the minfree text file.

The file contains 6 numbers comma-separated that are the minfree values writen as memory pages. 1 memory page is 4kB (

correct me if I'm wrong!

). So take the number you want as minfree values, multiply it by 256 (1024÷4, change the 4 if someone say it's wrong) to convert it from MB to mp and replace the one in the file.

Example: 6, 8, 16, 24, 32, 48 → 1536,2048,4096,6144,8192,12288

It works fine for me.

* for example use ES File Explorer then left menu, activate Root Explorer, tap on the text, Mount in read/write, / and /system in RW (you should revert back at the finish).
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Not all users here are expert like u. I wrote the noob friendly procedure :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Welcome 4.4.3 :D

https://github.com/SlimRoms/frameworks_base/commit/e4f0f3b9b71a5ca5ade308a0a9168b875bf84765
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
Slims' are the boss! And you're the boss that keep us synced!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
OK Google

The last Nova Launcher update allows the use of the keyword OK Google as GEL. This feature requires a device with low-power listener. Does it works in our devices with SlimKat withouth draining rivers of battery? Anyone has tried to enable it? If it works, it works also in deep sleep mode?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
works.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
Also in deep sleep? How did you make it working? Battery drains a lot?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
aw... you can see it lah.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Who wants it :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
ME ME!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
me too me too :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
Android 4.4.3 uploaded.. :good:

Enjoy :cool:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
Same Gapps?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Deichz:
my exam just ended and see slimtkat 4.4.3 :D :D :D

oh btw, which gapps should i use?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] alwaysadeel:
see addons at slimroms.net for updated gapps. ALWAYS !
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
Yes! Gapps from slim site works good!! Running now!

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] itachilinux:
wow, it's so smooth! i can't believe this is sola! i don't expected if i can use 4.4.3 on my sola before!

thanks [MENTION=5143053]alwaysadeel[/MENTION]! you're the best!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] huss5221:
Is clean install mandatory now Coz of version change of android?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Peppecarto:
I didn't format data, only cache and system and everything's fine!

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] _ViBe_:
Just installed 5.7! Very smooth!

Video playback still needs work. This time phone doesn't reboots, but lags very hard. services fc continiously when playing video on fb app, so it needs hard reboot.

Although Youtube videos playback excellent!

Keyboard still fc.

Except this, everything is awesome!

Keep up the good work! :good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
I still can't get it working, alsocwith english language. :crying:

Which settings have you changed to get it working while screen in off?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] PepperBlack:
Good job bro:thumbup:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mons1990:
I have an issue with dialer app: when I call someone the screen goes black and there's no sound. Clean install, dial pad tones disabled.

I can't also close an incoming call :(

For the rest is OK but this is a very annoying bug. I'LL try to take a logcat this afternoon