[One (M8) Android Development] Bllooi:
Got to hand it to the SD team. This ROM is crazy good. It's breathed alot of new life into my phone, and everything is just so buttery.

Keep in mind, I'm gonna try to sum up this ROM for anyone who's looking into it. (No one asked for it but maybe itll help you decide if this ROM is for you)

BATTERY

Battery life though, is average. In my 'real day to day use' testing (School, social media etc. ), doze works and it's working very well. Screen off, I'm sure the phone will last. I woke up with 0% battery drain one night. However, when the screen is on, it drains like mad. Sometimes, I even have to plug the phone in before I come home because there's such a drastic change in battery percentage it gets kinda scary.

I've given this ROM IMO, the best chance as I'm not using any Facebook apps, instead I'm using an alternative (Metal Pro), I'm also using Greenify, Amplify, and PowerNap. All the major wakelocks and alarms were regulated too (http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-0-0-hour-idle-battery-drain-stock-t2973588).

So in all honesty I don't know what's up with the battery. Maybe it's just me, or how I use an app but I have no noticeably damaging wakelocks, no seeder is involved, all the kernel settings were left alone and I'm just left puzzled at why my phone isn't really getting the efficiency I'm aiming for.

PERFORMANCE

The performance of this ROM is good. So buttery. So bloody smooth.

One problem though.

It's starting to slow down. It's understandable, new ROM, clean install=smoothness but, I can feel it start to get slow. I clear my app cache and I don't have too many apps installed but still. It's just slowly sinking into a slower and slower state. It's not that things are taking longer to load, but things are starting to stutter

Overall though, the phone is still useable and its stable. Stable enough that you can use your phone with no crashes, no nothing. Nothing will stop this rom from being a daily driver, it'll just chug on and keep working.

FEATURES?

Kinda bare right now. Other ROMs have slightly better screen on times but this ROM has nothing to better it's battery life.

I've done alot of mods to this ROM through Xposed and everything is just nice. You can definitely get some AIO apps which can do zipalign on boot (L Speed for instance although idk if L Speed has that feature) and the addition of BusyBox and init.d was a bonus. The ROM comes jam packed with possibility, just not any real sort of mods.

OVERALL

There are downsides with these ROMs but the upside is that, I can do whatever the hell I want.

And I've sorta managed to start living with the downsides because this ROM has more upsides to it than none. The fact that it comes with a clean slate, not full of mods and pre-done customisation is kinda fun. It forces me to learn more about how I can optimise my device. And as a new student in computer science it's kinda helpful.

IMO, this ROM is a really good base for something alot more. You can build on it yourself, learn the ways or you could just keep complaining that it doesn't have enough features as other ROMs. It depends on who you are. I'm no iPhone guy so. I think I'll keep to modding SD

Idk, tell me what you want to know about my experience with this ROM or just try it. The SD team has done such a good job, kudos to them. I love this phone again and I even bought a new skin to compliment the new ROM!

SD I really hope you continue making this ROM better over time. Means alot to still have big ROM makers making amazing builds for this phone.

Maybe you'll find this helpful maybe not, but SD Rom is definitely going to be my daily driver from now on