[GiONEE Elife E7] sahu.prashant:
Last Build 20151011

Hello mates,

Just tested the last build as thoroughly as I could and I found some really pleasing results.

However I first list the problems that need attention :

- Camera : Possibly the only thing which is keeping us from using this awesome rom on a daily basis. But I have faith in our developers, let's be patient and I'm sure they'll fix it soon.

- Distorted sound : Although the maximum speaker volume is quite good but it produces a lot of distortion. As stated earlier, the distortion can be reduced a little by tweaking dsp manager but still can't be minimised satisfactorily. I request the devs to look into this matter

- Low in call volume : In this build I experienced somewhat low call volume which makes it harder to take calls when outdoors.

- Notification lights : While on charging, it seems that red and green lights glow simultaneously producing a mixed orange color which is not very pretty.

Also when a new notification is received, two or more lights glow producing a pale purple color which is not very bad to look at. However the notification light glows constantly instead of pulsating.

- Wi-Fi IP Address : This problem would rather go unnoticed if I didn't try connecting to my university Wi-Fi. The phone works just fine when connected to the usual Wi-Fi but it kept connecting and disconnecting on my university Wi-Fi. The university network uses tighter security too.

Investigating the problem I noticed that in advanced Wi-Fi options, the IP Address was marked unavailable. I suspect these problems can be related somehow. I'll be posting screenshots below.

- Hardware Decoders : Video playback with hardware decoders is still not possible although feroxxx did try to fix it. This however, doesn't pose a big problem since we can play videos with software decoders for now.

- Blank Screen : Avoid sliding down the brightness bar too much to the left as it could make the screen go completely blank and I suspect that even rebooting won't help in that case if it gets stuck like that.

- Performance : Although Antutu Benchmark scores of Omnirom match or even exceed what we usually get in stock Kitkat, but the overall performance in heavy games like Asphalt 8 is a little less. I noticed some frame drops while playing on high settings in Asphalt 8 but it is still not that bad. Rom is very smooth if you don't go for heavy games.

- Boot Up : Rarely an issue but the UI lags after the boot up is finished for about three to five minutes and after that it works like a charm.

Now let's look at the improvements and commendable features :

- Battery Life : This is what is the major improvement in the last build and this makes omnirom almost ready to be used daily. Our able devs have fixed the battery drain and now the battery consumption is very similar to stock Kitkat and in some ways even better. I flashed the gapps, few messengers like Whatsapp and still the battery was holding up fine. Thanks a lot for this major fix!

- Daydream : It works great too.

- Advanced Boot Options : Useful for booting into recovery.

- Headset/Earphones Volume : Awesome volume levels and the maximum is much more than you can handle.

- Xposed : Not sure if you have tried it or not but yes this is one of the best things.... Xposed works! It works perfectly.

I did many tweaks with GravityBox and everything worked so well! I'll be posting the screenshots soon and also I'll be including where to get the right version of Xposed framework.

- ADB Compatibility : I almost threw my phone away when I tried to get adb access on stock Kitkat, I couldn't get it working on it but on Omnirom it's easily detected as an adb device which enabled me to take logs which I'll be posting soon.

Features if could be included, would be very helpful :

- Double Tap to Wake : I tried installing an xposed module for enabling double tap to wake feature but it says our kernel doesn't support it. I request you to please look into it.

- Mass Storage : Not sure if this feature can be implemented now but it'll be very helpful if our device could be connected as mass storage as well.

---------- Post added at 08:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:53 PM ----------

Here are the logs generated for feroxxx and other members who know how to use them.

Logcat : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fvS_BFbJzNbTBEdl84Vm1NQnc/view?usp=docslist_api

Dmesg : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fvS_BFbJzNbVJrM2xFaThsQjg/view?usp=docslist_api

Unfortunately I don't know about this much but I think last_kmsg is generated when kernel crashes. Since I don't think this ever happened in omnirom, so this was generated : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fvS_BFbJzNWDBFb1Z0M3kxdUU/view?usp=docslist_api

Please feel free to rectify and suggest and please do let know if I can help in any other way.

Also please let me know if there's anything wrong with the links.