[Sony Xperia M] para22:
Excellent ROM, but a few glitches

Hello JustArchi, greetings from India.

After reading so many of positive reviews of this rom, i finally decided to install it on my xperia m dual. Installation was one one of a kind experience, which i never saw on a mobile phone. Great Work!

I've a few suggestions, if you find them useful:

* Link2sd support: I've been using this solution, which works perfectly except when i upgrade my rom. I've ~220 apps and with ART runtime takes about 700-800mb of dalvik cache. Using Link2sd this can be moved to sdcard sdext. However, when this is created afresh on system startup, link2sd doesn't start yet and the storage space is full with 0.00 gb space left due to which nothing opens, almost everything force closes. I've found a way around this by going to settings>apps deleting a few and then reinstalling after cache has been created and relinked with link2sd. Just that if there was a better way to do that..

*GPS works better than the cm11 rom. is it possible to add google suppl servers to gps.conf? Will it work without spying on my location and eating my battery? If i disable location from Privacy Guard for Google play services it force closes, plus it doesn't work when it is actually needed, say for instance in Google fit.

*Accelerometer and Orientation sensor are like insane giving changing readings even when i keep the phone on the table. On stock rom it worked perfectly, however there seems to be a problem with cm11 rom also. Due to this, Google fit gives about 3000 steps (under miscellaneous short steps with 0 minutes of activity time) even when i don't move the phone throughout the day. This also results in battery drain, which i guess is due to some wakelock by google fit, although i'm not sure.

Nokia here maps always keeps on saying your compass is confused even though I've calibrated it multiple times and using different apps. GPSTest, on the other hand, gives stable values, may be uses better filtering for raw data.

>>Right now this seems to be the biggest problem yet<<<

*When I installed, i selected not to install xposed framework as it doesn't allow ART, however it got installed anyhow. Is there anyway to completely disable art, just in case.

*While I'm not an expert on this, isn't 1.6GHz too high a value for overclocking? Will there be any physical damage to CPU core at this frequency, as the Cool Tool says the CPU is mostly either at the highest frequency or the lowest frequency 384MHz. While i'm using trickstermod to set this, it is done after boot is over, so i guess booting is mostly [MENTION=1247388]1.6[/MENTION]Ghz.

*Is it possible to add an option during install (or after it) to turn all the menu items to light theme (which i find more readable, and guess many other also fee that way). I know this can be done using theme manager etc, but an option would be useful.

*Camera works poorly in indoor or badly lit conditions, may be hardware limitation.

*Dual sim though supported, is somewhat awkward to use. on stock it was easier to use. For example on a single messaging thread, i could choose whichever sim i want to use to send the message right there in the app itself. Now it pops up a menu everytime which is annoying.

*Request for Yahoo Aviate launcher also (as Google now, nova launcher is already included). Other launcher worth considering is the minimalistic Nokia zero launcher.

Request for Amazon appstore, if possible, to make the system completely google bloatware free. Also,if would be possible to remove google framework after install then temporarily install when needed for some app and uninstall after that, it would be very helpful. Manually doing that is a pain.

Request for better DSP Manager/Equaliser than what is provided. Gives distorted sound on the official sony headphones, even if i tweak any of its settings. Was not a problem on stockrom.

Request for some form of Diskusage monitor at the time of installation.

Request for Hindi language!

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this is my finding after one day of usage, will update as i keep on using it.

Overall, looks like an excellent rom, if only accelerometer could have been better.

Congratulations on producing such a quality rom and best wishes.