[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] costasparisis:
(not-so-secret) secret (mostly) ROMs testing

Dear encho,

Many thanks again for everything !

It's really hard for a part time tester to keep up with your productivity, even on a weekend !!

Bliss 3.1 2nd edition really ROCKS - smooooth, stable and faaast. Proximity issue fixed and no other real issue detected by me while I was using it. I notice ROM is using the latest android keyboard edition and possibly some issues I had with certain, keyboard related, x-posed modules are due to this fact -I didn't have enough time to test thoroughly and this is ENTIRELY FOR YOU TO BLAME FOR BEING SO PRODUCTIVE ; ) you 'll see what I mean later-.

Anyway, this is obviously not the ROM's fault but rather a reflection of the LP 5.1 framework's teething problems which currently make this feature packed ROM, which is also very fast, smooth and stable, a very attractive choice for everyday use, for users who like running the latest android OS version on their phones.

On the other hand, if a specific customization is essential to some user and impossible to apply with current x-posed system, then it's either a "deal breaker" situation or a add-a-feature request to you, the developer, which (with me being totally unfamiliar with your developers community's internal rules and ethics) I don't even know if it is fair to ask.

Another WARNING to people: I tried to "factory reset" through settings (please don't ask me why I did it I don't even know myself ! ) and ended up in a (TWRP) recovery bootloop and finally had to re-flash recovery with Odin.

So please now let me quickly carry on with some off-posting mainly about "orphan" ROMs which have no dedicated thread ; ) -please tell me off if it's not OK an I won't do it again-

Your latest PAC and EOS both seem stable, smooth and fast on (not very extensive -I must admit-) testing.

Now your SLIMs:

Even the latest 5.1, as you know, still has problems registering the network. It DOES momentarily register at some time after boot because it changes the system's locale during initial customization after first boot but sadly this is all.

So I am currently running your (not-so-secret anymore) latest 5.0.2 alpha 1.0 slim which ROCKS !!! (the previous 5.0.2 I managed to set-up by flashing a permissive kernel and super SU but was quite slow with opening databases and such - initially I thought it was 5.0.2 v/s 5.1 but then...)

It is super fast and light and smooth, and customized with the help of good old Gravity Box is currently perfect for my everyday (very demanding) needs -of course it isn't LP 5.1 and here I would like to ask you, if I may, which do you think is currently the main advantage of 5.1 over 5.0.2 ?

Before I move on, some observations:

There's a delay for the lockscreen activation after each normal boot but not when one soft resets.

I had to flash SU over the existing one which is locked.

A tiny feature I'm missing is phone dialpad T9's language customization.

I flashed arter97's (?secret) quickboot. It doesn't show up as an option in Developer Options but it works.

And before I shut up, one more (off-posted) more general question - request:

I have noticed in all ROMs since the introduction of LP a significant delay in system shutting down for a reboot (as if several data is stored from RAM to NAND or something). This does happen even if one asks for a soft reboot through the system but doesn't if one uses say x-posed framework's reboot/soft reboot command. Is there a particular danger when using the latter option and/or is there something worth doing about it in the future ?

Really hoping some of the above were of some use.

With all my thanks once again.

costasparisis

PS: really, how is the black slim project going ?