[X Style (Pure) General] jcasares:
My first Android phone was a Galaxy S2. The best phone I've ever used but it had a major flaw, software updates. It was then that I found CyanogenMod and got hooked with it. It was a nice initiative with a perfected OS when Android was still far from polished. The problem was that it had a lot of issues with the S2, and CM developers blamed Samsung, particularly the processor.

It was then that I decided to go for a Qualcomm based phone seeing that CM devs where quite vocal in their support. So a Galaxy S4 (Qualcomm model) was the next Android phone I had. Bad choice! Not only the hardware was not so good but CM devs keep struggling anyway, even when they said that the processor was to blame for the Galaxy S2 instability I had the same instability or worse with the S4.

At that time Cyanogen Inc. appeared and the One Plus One was unveiled. I bought one of the first phones but got it on my hands only 3 months later. My first reaction was "nice design" but I hit a wall in the hardware department. The touch panel was barely usable. I had some crashes with the camera (GS4 deja vu) and the radio was bad. I almost sold it and looked for another phone but an update to the OS fixed most of the issues. They promised but they didn't deliver. The update to the new OS took them quite longer that advertised. They had to delay it two times and before that they released an update that brought back the touch panel issues. I ended starting from scratch a couple of weeks later when they released CyanogenOS 12. It was quite stable but I already was out of love for the OPO and CyanogenOS. It had its share of issues and I started to believe they were not hardware but software related.

My next phone would be a pure Android phone but Google decided to launch the 6P and 5X and none was the phone I was looking for. The other option was a Motorola. I really liked what they did with the Moto G. A nice cheap phone that it was almost stock and worked quite well. The Moto X Pure Edition (X Style) was unveiled and I decided to try it after seeing and liking the Moto X and Moto X 2014. That meant that I won't have immediate updates but they will be quite fast. That also means that I will have Motorola hardware, that I trust since the MicroTAC and StarTAC times, would be a nice change.

After two months with this phone now I can say I love it. I don't need anything particular from a CyanogenMod firmware and less its instability. Stock Android picked up many of the things I wanted from a custom ROM and there is no justification for losing stability for a couple more.

I will go for a Nexus probably for the fast update of the OS in the future if they launch a phone that I like, but for now the Style is my best friend.

The GOOD things:

- The Galaxy S2 still is an excellent phone, and Samsung never build something like that.

- The Galaxy S4 had a nice design (but nothing more).

- The OPO had the best grip I had on a phone. The phone didn't fall from my hand, even once, in a year and a half; that's quite an accomplishment. I miss that sand stone finish!

- The Motorola had the best radio so far (as I expected from Motorola).

The BAD things:

- The Galaxy S2 was the phone that fell the most from my hands in 25 years of using cell phones.

- The Samsung OS variant is the worse thing of Samsung phones. Family and friends still use some Samsung phones and when I need to help them I really struggle with that Frankenstein OS they built.

- CyanogenOS become a pointless OS (but I really want the development community to continue, just that I won't use it anymore).

Funny note: I have a Galaxy S2 in my desk that was updated to Marshmallow (CyanogenMod 13) and it works quite well. Just not my daily driver. :P

Summarizing: I don't feel the need to test the last CyanogenMod anymore and I'm quite happy with (almost) stock Android. There is not a single thing I miss from that OS and I welcome the stability I have now. I believe that the only usefulness for CM now is to bring extended life to EOL devices.

---------- Post added at 12:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:20 PM ----------

I really miss that and was looking for a way to overcome it.

Can you share your experience on that and point to some links? because I was unsuccessful so far.