[Android Software Development] ephexxis:
i guess i'll just go ahead and say it: at this point i think that exodus 0.8.9 should be strongly considered to be the likely Release Candidate 1 for a solid 1.0 release.

its been a little bit now but if memory serves it worked for nearly everyone essentially out of the box and was itself a massive SQ upgrade, pretty much universally across testers, including me on an x86 arch phone.

the past week or so, I've intended upon each iteration released that seemed to have a decent amount of good feedback from others, to update my rom, kernel, and commit the 1-6 hours necessary to manually copying the files over and then troubleshooting any issues to make the step up to a higher version and check out the new implementations to see if i have an improvement.

in reality, due to a combination of trying to work more to make more money (financial struggles will be the death of me), the extra focus I've had to allocate to maintaining my car (which i use and need for both my jobs, and if i lose this front right tire in the next 3-4 days which judging from the fact that the sidewall is worn down to the point where I'm pretty sure im starting to see the steel banding underneath, im totally f**ked six ways towards the weekend), and the unconvincing number of positive test results have thusfar been sufficient to keep me from being able to make that time commitment.

that being said, it's also due to the fact that, especially in the last two or three days (after countless regressions, missteps, and oversights) I've been able to significantly improve SQ at least for my set up IMMENSELY through the use of originally the tweak.prop and eventually testing new or alternative lines and values myself in editing my build.prop directly.

at this point i believe I've encountered the limits, or close to the limits of how good one can potentially make this version of ARISE sound, and it is sincerely stunning to look back from the new heights I've acheived and consider how far we have come to get here.

a few days ago i had mentioned in a few posts that i plan to release a fleshed out tweak.prop with my customizations for people to try out, cause who doesn't want more options when it comes to this mod? I kept stumbling upon amazing configurations for 0.8.9 because with each new version that sounded like a stable and well regarded version, ultimately i would decide to keep waiting; keep testing props for 0.8.9. because it was good enough to outweigh the risks involved in trying to move up into a new version. i still plan to release the tweak.prop assuming there's interest, but that's why it hasnt, appeared yet. also i obviously haven't used it (lol "it" true i have a primary candidate but truthfully there are 7 versions sitting in my storage with all different configurations) for versions higher than 0.8.9 so when it does drop, understand i have no idea how it might work on 9+, though it's surely worth testing.

all of this considered, again i think that .8.9 reflects the best Candidate for RC1.0. first release doesn't need to be the best, but it did seem to be close to the most compatible thusfar and the quality of sound is still so high that it really seems overall to be the most well rounded.