[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daubh:
DEVELOPERS ATTENTION- BUGS Xperia SP Locked Bootloader Cyanogenmod 11

CyanogenMod version: 11-20141102-UNOFFICIAL-lbhuashan installed on locked bootloader Xperia SP C5306 (Canada).

Been using this ROM for about 3 weeks. My first experience with Cyanogenmod.

1. App icons added to the homescreen at the lower left corner (right above the tray) tend to disappear after reboot or just 1-2 days of usage. I would have to manually add them again from the app drawer when this happens. This also happens to other homescreens (I currently have 2-3 homescreens). Grid size: Cozy. Apps currently in that area are the apps whose data and resources I have moved to my SD card. However, I remember I also had an app that I didn't move to the SD card, and it disappeared too. Note: Apps do not get uninstalled. The icon disappears from the homescreen, especially if I placed them to the lower left area of the homescreen. Also good to point out here, if I have icons placed on the bottom or right edges of the homescreen on Cozy grid, but then change the grid size to "Comfortable", the icons get cut off from the screen. And yes, my homescreens have plenty of space on the screen for the icons to rearrange themselves instead of getting cut off.

2. 1 more unwanted homescreen tends to get created to the right. The app icons and widgets that I added to my homescreen fit in 2 homescreens, but there's a blank one that creates automatically to the right and there is no delete option.

3. I do not use many widgets (I currently have 2 of them on my homescreens). Google Calendar and Mint widgets. Google Calendar is on my main homescreen, and Mint is on the one to the right. However, very often, the Mint widget (which is supposed to show my account summary) disappears from my homescreen everyday! Then when I long press homescreen >

Widgets, I am unable to find the Mint widget! I would have to reinstall the app to make it appear in the list again.

4. I use Google Play Music as my music app. When I am playing a song, it displays the next, previous, pause buttons on the lockscreen, together with the album art as the lockscreen background. I use PIN unlock if that matters. However, more often than not, when I press the power button to unlock to access the next button on the screen, when the screen comes to life, the button is not there. Nor are the back or pause buttons. The music is still playing and all is see is the album art and PIN request. Also, sometimes, the album art doesn't change to the next album art after change of songs. It stays on the previous album art.

5. Custom Lockscreen background picture sometimes gets stretched out. But it was not very often.

6. It annoys me that when I tap on a phone number from a messaging app for example, it takes me to the dial pad, which is nice, but the dial pad does not have an option to send a text message to the entered number. I would need to either save the number first, or select, copy, go to hangouts and paste number. Android 4.3 from Sony gave me the option to send a message to an unknown phone number.

7. High touch sensitivity doesn't work as well as the Sony glove mode. Screen does not respond to my touch while wearing gloves even with that option turned on.

8. When I try to drag an app icon to the homescreen, if I change my mind and do not want that icon to go on my homescreen, there is no option to send it to thrash instead of homescreen. So basically if I just long pressed on an icon, but a split second later decided I do not want to place it on the homescreen, my only options are "Uninstall" and "info" and I would need to go to info if I did not want the app on the homescreen.

9. Some apps that require login credentials do not work. My school app (Seneca College) does not let me log in saying "could not send data to server" (or something similar). This never happened while I was using the final release of Sony Android 4.3.

Despite the bugs, I want to seize this opportunity to thank the developers who made this possible. This ROM, even with the bugs, outweighs Sony's firmware for the Xperia SP, and I am really glad I have this ROM on my phone. I love updates because I tend to get bored with a monotonous UI, but Sony stopped support for the Xperia SP (hence not abiding by the 18-months support code of professionalism) so now Cyanogenmod and awesome developers like you are my hero! Hope these issues will be fixed in the next update!