[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bryank29:
I am on full day 2 using the July 12 Nightly (12.1-20150712-NIGHTLY-d2vzw and GAPPS gapps-5.1-2015-07-03-13-41 (btw, took me a while to find recent GAPPS, the wiki page takes you to a vendor zip file which aborts when trying to load, at the bottom of the wiki is a link to vendor_google where drilling into your arm, arm64, x86 will let you download the respective GAPPS file.

I am using ClockworkMod Recover 6.0.4.5

So far the rom is running pretty fantastic. It has taken me a while to go through the settings to determine what certain things do, what to change, tweaks, etc...

So certain specific issues I have seen that are irritating, some more than others.

The luxurious Camera cannot connect bug. This was a killer for me in the beginning, and found out 4.4.4. KK was doing the same thing. I even got it in a non CM mod, and realized I enjoyed the rest of 12.1 enough to figure a temporary workaround which current involves using the back button to exit out of the camera app (not the home button), but also using the CM Camerafix which restarts the app without restarting the phone. Sometimes this even fails though.

btw, I reallly really really hate the stock camera app. I came from Jelly Beans Build 18-19, and really enjoyed the camera. I had 1080p video, all types of scene choices, etc.. and the stock app feels so dumbed down and I don't even feel the camera takes better pictures. This lets me take 720p video, no scene options, even accessing the various settings doesn't flow for me. I downloaded A Better Camera and it is "eh" at the moment. With stock you can't even turn off camera noise.

I'd love to find a better camera app. Is it possible to make the locked screen camera slide default to a 3rd party?

My power button is finicky and sometimes gets stuck and makes sleep mode difficult to maintain, but noticed yesterday lighty pressing it would fire off a bunch of pics. Something happened and my screen went dark, and nothing would bring it back. I think the phone shut down but I am not sure. I ended up pulling the battery and rebooted. Thought I bricked it for a moment.

Compass. I found out you can add the compass to the notification drawer. It was working last night, then got stuck...froze, and looked like the entire UI restarted (not the phone)..similar to Windows Explorer having to restart.

I can't get Google hangouts audio to work when talking. I can be heard and seen, but they can't hear me. When enabled via bluetooth in my vehicle, my audio works. I have gone into the Google Settings for the voice (OK Google) and disabled it cause I read somewhere it was conflicting with the internal mic. But this thus far has not fixed the issue. So internal mic and speaker with Hangout calls doesn't seem to be working.

I run a zero lemon 7300 mah battery, so at the end of the day I am still between 40-60% battery if I am giving it heavy use (Google Chrome, Youtube, text messaging, Spotify, Hangouts). Hangouts definitely burns a lot of power. At the time of this writing (9:50am), I removed my phone from my charger around 7:30am, and have used Instagram, Chrome, and kept the screen on while checking settings, etc.. periodically and I am sitting at 93% battery power.

I don't know if this matters, but using the specific Kernal / firmware and modem d2vzw_VRBMF1_firmware, etc. I think makes this snappier. The first 12.1 unofficial I had tried from a Youtube link didn't mentioned a specific firmware, and I feel like the build I am using now is very slick and fast....I don't know if that is because the prior build was April, or that I installed specific firmware. The Youtube April one didn't have me flash firmware.

The 4g LTE being inactive upon reboot is something I have seen. I have only had to modify the fix once "With Wifi disconnected or off, go to Settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names and select one of those not already selected. Give it a few seconds. Should be good till next reboot."

My phone screenshot method (at least on Jelly Beans) used to be UP + Power and it not longer works on CM 12.1, however the addition of the screenshot button to the Power menu circumvents that.

So far that is my experience. I'm really really really hoping the camera issue is worked out, AND a better stock camera is used. I am open to more suggestions.

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Yep, just mentioned this in my post, except it is Hangouts. It works during Bluetooth in my vehicle though. I even disabled the OK Google stuff as someone recommended it might work, but so far nada.

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Also, I am a noob when it comes to using nightlies. If I have all my stuff setup, etc.. and I want to try another nightly, Do I have to do the full wipe again, reinstall new gapps, and basically start all over or is there a way to upgrade the nightly and keep all my stuff / settings?

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Mind if I ask what GAPP issues you were having and why the tkruzze is more solid?

---------- Post added at 03:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:23 PM ----------

minor annoyance btw, the recommendation for the Gapps takes you to Wiki page and all the previous builds have links to correct GAPP zip files, but the 12.1 makes you download a vendor zip file, which isn't structured correctly for install (it failed when I tried to flash it)....turns out if you go to the github page directly https://github.com/cgapps/vendor_google and click inside your respective arm,arm64, x86 you are presented with the most recent GAPPS zip files. In the ARM case, there are 2 of them. I simply used the most recent.